Access Explorer User Guide
This guide introduces the Access Explorer and familiarizes users with key features and capabilities.
Introduction
The California Natural Resources Agency’s Access for All Initiative and 30x30 set a goal of equitable access for all to the state’s natural and open spaces. This dashboard helps illustrate the current challenges and highlights opportunities.
The Access Explorer compares populations living near publicly accessible open spaces with those of the community overall.
Users can view and compare basic demographic information about Californians that live:
- Within a half-mile of any publicly accessible open space in the Conserved Areas Dataset
- Within a half-mile of a publicly accessible open space that is a 30x30 Conservation Area
- And, within a city, county, or the state
About the Explorer
The CA Nature team developed the Access Explorer as part of a suite of interactive mapping and visualization tools compiling statewide biodiversity, access, climate, and conservation information to advance California's commitment to conserve 30 percent of our lands and coastal waters by 2030, known as the 30×30 initiative.
This guide will help you learn:
Access for All
Meaningful conservation that contributes to California's 30x30 goals including Access for All occurs in many forms across a broad spectrum of ecosystems, from strictly protected areas to working lands and waters. California’s vast array of landscapes all play important roles in biodiversity conservation, climate action, and access. Together, they create a mosaic of conserved areas working synergistically to support connectivity and redundancy—two key components of resilience.
To learn more about 30x30 and climate smart land management, visit our website at CaliforniaNature.ca.gov .
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