


Your goal is to find the best corridors to connect these habitats. The area located in Santa Susana, which was established by the National Park Service and is located just outside of Pico Canyon Park, does not represent a significant core area but serves as an important geographic gateway for linking the larger but geographically disconnected core areas to each other. The core mountain lion habitats identified in Los Padres, Santa Monica, and San Gabriel represent larger natural areas containing mountain lion populations surrounded by urban development and roads. By limiting analysis to this smaller extent, you'll process less data and improve the time it takes for geoprocessing tools to run. It contains the four core mountain lion habitats. The study area represents a smaller extent within the greater Los Angeles metropolitan area. The map automatically zooms to the layer extent, which includes the study area you'll focus on for your analysis. In the Contents pane, click the checkbox for the World Boundaries and Places layer to turn it on.If a layer is turned off (denoted by the check box next to the layer name), it is not visible on the map. Currently, the map has three layers: one for the counties in the Los Angeles area one for the oceans, landforms, terrain, and water bodies that provide geographic context for the counties and one called World Boundaries and Places that is currently turned off. To the left of the map is the Contents pane, which contains a list of all elements on the map. Ībove the map is the ribbon, which contains several tabs with various tools and options for navigating or working with the map. Mountain lions are found in all of these counties (as well as much of the western United States), although the focus area of your analysis will be within Los Angeles and Ventura counties, where frequent mountain lion encounters have been reported. The project contains a map of the greater Los Angeles metropolitan area, which encompasses five counties: Ventura, Los Angeles, Orange, San Bernardino, and Riverside.

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