SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY GREENPRINT

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1 SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY GREENPRINT Clark Thompson, Fresno COG (559) x203 Nathaniel Roth, UC Davis (530) Jim Thorne, UC Davis (530) Greenprint website:

2 BACKGROUND Phase I application submitted to SGC in August 2010 $275,000. Official start date September 6, 2011 pursuant to Grant Agreement with State Department of Conservation. Contract with UC Davis Information Center for the Environment (ICE) executed April 27, Companion to Blueprint Valleywide non urban perspective (Valley floor and also foothills and watersheds). Water, loss of farmland and habitat, climate change A resource to understand and address challenges and a tool for decision makers and other stakeholders. Population growth from 4.1 (2014) to 7.5 million (2050)

3 GREENPRINT PHASE I WHAT IT IS A catalog of publicly funded maps organized by primary theme (agriculture, water, biodiversity, energy). A single point of access. Publicly available thru the SJV Greenprint Mapping Portal on the SJV Greenprint website (sjvgreenprint.ice.ucdavis.edu). An interactive tool that allows users to assemble maps from the many available layers and create their own map views. State of the Valley report that provides current conditions and analysis of trends from the major themes. Greenprint Steering Committee, Greenprint Survey. RPC adoption anticipated at October Fall Policy Conference.

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5 GREENPRINT PHASE I WHAT IT ISN T Does not propose policy. Does not usurp local land use authority. Does not advance a particular agenda. Does not propose new regulations or public/private management actions. A resource that can inform land use and resource management decisions and plan and project development

6 Spatial Data Portal Organized thematically Water, Agriculture, Biodiversity Many Sources Federal, State, Regional, Local, Private With notes on data quality and use

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8 Figure 7: Subsidence in Feet Historic land subsidence

9 Figure 6. Potential groundwater recharge areas. Data and analysis provided by the California Water Institute Note: The groundwater recharge areas data would benefit from an update to use the newest soils data.

10 Figure 9: The San Joaquin River and Tulare Lake Hydrologic Regions as they relate to the San Joaquin Valley Counties, with Planning Areas overlain.

11 Figure 3: Comparison of the Fresno area in 1984 (left) and 2010 (right) using the FMMP datasets.

12 Figure 8. Storie Index, a soil rating system for land use and productivity

13 Figure 7: Soil Salinity

14 Figure 3. The extent of historic landcover types in the 8 county region.

15 (Figure 4) The FRAP map for the 8 county region. The banding shown in the Sierra Nevada Mountains represents different forest and wood types that occupy differing elevations.

16 GREENPRINT PHASE II COG Directors approval anticipated September 4 $400,000. Task 1 Convene panels of qualified experts. Provide informed opinions on resource management challenges. Task 2 Outreach to stakeholders, emphasizing the counties. Increase awareness, implications of current trends, solicit ideas, training. Task 3 Major policies, programs and implementation tools relating to resource lands in the Valley. Identify conflicts and opportunities to align with state and federal initiatives. Task 4 Pilot projects $210,000 allocated to local agencies. Task 5 Guide for resource management. Self select.

17 FINAL OBSERVATION Phase II application submitted Feb. 15, September 30, 2013 official Phase II start date, pursuant to Grant Agreement with DOC. RFP issued September 15, 2014, 2 ½ years after application submitted. Proposal deadline October 21, Reconcile different Greenprint perspectives. Environmental perspective Blueprint perspective Cautious perspective Activist perspective