Description: This shapefile was screen digitized from 'Calecoregions1.jpg' a georectified digital image of the original map of California's ecoregions, include the marine ecoregions, created by Jim Bailey of the California State Department of Parks and Recreation. The marine regions from this map picture were used as the basis for the 4 regions of the Marine Protected Areas excercise, conducted as part of compliance with AB 993 in 2001. They were digitized from this map scan since no GIS product existed.
Copyright Text: Produced by California Department of Parks and Recreation Based on Information and Maps Compiled by W. James Barry, Ph.D. Senior State Park Ecologist Certified Soil Scientist, S.S.S.A. Resource Agency, University of California Fellow For California Interagency Natural Areas Committee April 16, 1992 Scale 1 : 4,250,000 Revised 1997 by W. James Barry and John W. Foster, California Underwater Parks on Reserves Planning and Management. In: California and the World Ocean '97. Vol. 1. pg 89. American Society of Civil Engineers, Reston Virginia, 856 p.