The California Protected Areas (CPAD) and Conservation Easement (CCED) data team are excited to announce the 2025a release of updated fee and easement data. Each of these releases includes major updates and important improvements for 48 out of 58 counties. Data updates cover submissions and improvements from January to June 2025.
Ready to submit GAP codes for land your group manages?
Update your lands and GAP codes, you can find a toolkit and information online. Also, feel free to reach out with any questions about how to improve data for your agency/organization in CPAD and CCED.
Still struggling to assign GAP codes?
The staff at USGS have released an updated GAP FAQ to address the common questions received from groups working on coding their lands. While this may not answer everything, it’s a great start to collaborating with their staff.
| CPAD Update | CCED Update |
| – An addition of 20,000 additional acres across California in 48 out of 58 counties. – An estimated 13% of total CPAD holdings have been updated since our last release, CPAD 2024b. – Added 250+ new parks throughout California. DOWNLOAD CPAD 2025a | – An addition of 600+ new easements across California since our previous release. – Updated an estimated 600,000 acres within our database since CCED 2024b, which include adding new easements, boundary updates, and/or updating details within our pre-existing easements. DOWNLOAD CCED 2025a |
Overlapping Report
Minor overlaps occur throughout the state and are predominantly slivers. Most often, these are a result of disagreement between county boundaries on ownership. The total acreage of overlaps is not significant, but it does aim to resolve these over time. As of the 2024b release, it now offers a report of overlaps at each release for both CPAD and CCED. The zip file contains a gdb itemizing overlaps at the holding level and a readme describing the various attributes. This can be downloaded at: https://bit.ly/overlap_analysis
Informational Videos
Check out a series of videos to provide insight into CPAD and CCED. If you would like to learn about CPAD’s structure, attributes, challenges, complexities, and uses, or to learn about CCED and other topics, please visit www.calands.org/video. Video captions and transcripts are available.
About
CPAD and CCED are projects of GreenInfo Network, a 501c3 nonprofit organization. GreenInfo assists public interest groups with mapping, data, analysis, and other information technology projects. Learn more about GreenInfo at www.greeninfo.org, and about CPAD and CCED at www.calands.org. Questions or comments? Reach us at cpad@calands.org.