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* Metric Name: Mountain Lion Suitable Habitat (Replaced June 2024)  

* Tier: 2  

* Data Vintage: 04/2023  

* Unit Of Measure: Unit Of Measure: Categorical - classified into one of the following habitat suitability categories:

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* Metric Definition and Relevance: This layer shows highly suitable habitats for the reproduction and feeding of Mountain lion ( _Puma concolor_ ).  

* Creation Method: CWHR classifications are based on a combination of FVEG canopy cover, FVEG size class and vegetation data. The vegetation data includes a variety of tree, shrub, grassland, and water dominated habitats. Species are considered present, and habitats considered suitable for each 30m cell for which the canopy cover-size-vegetation combination have been deemed highly or moderately suitable for the reproduction or feeding of that species in the California Wildlife Habitat Relationship database. Each cell was assigned the maximum suitability value, i.e. if a cell was moderately suitable for feeding and highly suitable for reproduction, it was considered highly suitable.  

* Credits: * FVEG 2023 * California Department of Fish and Wildlife CWHR version 9.0 (CDFW); 2014