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CDFW Wildlife Connectivity Programs

Maintaining wildlife connectivity is critical for the conservation of species, habitats, and ecosystem services. Wildlife and habitat connectivity science broadly intersects with programs across CDFW.

Select the options below to learn more about CDFW’s connectivity programs and datasets.

Wildlife Connectivity

The Wildlife Connectivity Program works to improve wildlife connectivity and roadway safety across California by identifying and addressing barriers to wildlife movement across the landscape. The program supports the development and monitoring of connectivity projects and advances long-term solutions such as habitat enhancement and restoration, movement barrier remediation, land acquisitions, and conservation easements. The program also manages the statewide Terrestrial Wildlife Connectivity Barriers Database and leads implementation of California’s State Action Plan under Secretarial Order 3362, guiding efforts to prioritize migration corridors and conservation actions that benefit both wildlife and people.

Terrestrial Connectivity Mapping

Spatial data and models of wildlife movement, corridors, and habitat connectivity across California. These maps and models are used by scientists and decision-makers to inform how to best conserve habitat connectivity, or the ability of species and ecological processes to move through the landscape.

Aquatic Connectivity Mapping

The Passage Assessment Database (PAD) is an ongoing map-based inventory of known and potential barriers to anadromous fish in California. PAD compiles data from more than one hundred agencies, organizations and landowners throughout California, and allows past and future barrier assessments to be standardized and stored at one place.

Connectivity Advance Mitigation

The Connectivity Advance Mitigation (CAM) subprogram, supplementary to Conservation and Mitigation Banking or Mitigation Credit Agreements, creates compensatory mitigation credits for wildlife connectivity actions.