Assisted migration - the practice of deliberately repopulating members of a species from their present habitat to a new region with the intent of establishing a permanent presence there, generally in response to the degradation of the natural habitat due to human action. (source: Wikipedia)
CALFED - The CALFED Bay-Delta Program is a unique collaboration among 25 state and federal agencies that came together with a mission: to improve California's water supply and the ecological health of the San Francisco Bay/Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta.
California Climate Adaptation Strategy - To prepare for the expected impacts of climate change, California is developing a statewide CAS in coordination with efforts targeting greenhouse gas mitigation policies. The CAS will synthesize the most up-to-date information on expected climate change impacts to California for policy-makers and resource managers, provide strategies to promote resiliency to these impacts and develop implementation plans for short and long term actions. (Source: California Resources Agency)
California Resources Agency - California's state agency with a mission to restore, protect and manage the state's natural, historical and cultural resources for current and future generations using creative approaches and solutions based on science, collaboration and respect for all the communities and interests involved. (source: California Resources Agency)
Catchment Area - an area that serves to catch water. (source: Merriam-Webster on line)
Chaparral - a shrubland or heathland plant community found primarily in the U.S. state of California and in the northern portion of Lower California, Mexico. It is shaped by a Mediterranean climate (mild, wet winters and hot dry summers) and wildfire. Similar plant communities are found in the four other Mediterranean climate regions around the world, including the Mediterranean Basin (where it is known as maquis), central Chile (where it is called matorral), South African Cape Region (known there as fynbos), and in Western and Southern Australia. (source: Wikipedia)
Compound Channel Projects - projects that are designed to improve flood capacity and ecological function in rivers. (source: Matt Kondolf)
Habitat conversion - the change of land quality, for example through land transformation or intensification of land use. Common reasons for habitat conversion are deforestation/reforestation, suburbanization, corridor construction, desertification and agricultural intensification, e.g. wetland drainage, irrigation or degradation due to overgrazing. (source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations)
Habitat fragmentation - the emergence of discontinuities (fragmentation) in an organism's preferred environment (habitat). (source: Wikipedia)
Water diversion - Changing the natural flow of water to another location by using dams, canals, or pipelines. (source: Colorado State University)
