Please see THE REPORT for further details:

There are 840,000 acres, within 5-km of protected areas for two or more species.

The primary goal of this habitat assessment is to identify areas within the region that may be suitable for land retirement and restoration using regionally consistent data. These areas could then be further evaluated with more comprehensive site-level investigations. This assessment does not attempt to prioritize retirement on a parcel-by-parcel basis. The results of this assessment will directly feed into a larger study on the habitat and groundwater sustainability benefits of alternative restoration scenarios currently being done by The Nature Conservancy with collaborators from the Natural Capital Project at Stanford University. Other applications of this assessment may emerge as strategic planning progresses, both within The Nature Conservancy, and among interested stakeholders. This report summarizes the overall purpose and need for this assessment, presents a detailed description of the methods and provides a summary of the results.