Abstract
Water Supply and Steelhead Fisheries Management, Santa Barbara, California Track: Forestry, Wildlife, and Fisheries Management Author(s): Timothy Robinson, Brett Gray Recent GIS acquisition facilitated seamless integration of spatial and tabular data that is used to manage water delivery, water quality, and endangered species monitoring and protection in Santa Barbara County, California. The Santa Ynez River basin near Santa Barbara is home to land locked and anadromous southern steelhead (Oncorhynchus mykiss). The watershed is also used as the principal water supply to five neighboring communities in the Santa Barbara region that have built three reservoirs with transmontane water delivery tunnels and a subterranean conduit. Managerial objectives of the two divergent programs used GIS to integrate data and resources to better serve human and fishery needs that compete for limited water resources in a Mediterranean climate. Field crews now regularly utilize GIS technologies to maximize field operations, streamline data management, and enhance report generation to better facilitate management decisions. Timothy Robinson Cuchuma Operations and Maintenance Board Fisheries 3301 Laurel Canyon Road Santa Barbara , CA 93105-2017 US Phone: 805-687-4011 E-mail: trobinson@cachuma-board.org Brett Gray Cachuma Operations and Maintenance Board Water Delivery 3301 Laurel Canyon Road Santa Barbara , CA 93105-2017 US Phone: 805-687-4011 E-mail: bgray@cachuma-board.org |
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