The California Department of Fish and Wildlife's Natural Community Conservation Planning (NCCP) Program looks to take broad-based ecosystem approaches for the protection, proliferation, and perpetuation of the native biological diversity and their habitat by partnering with both private and public sectors. The NCCP focuses on outlining the roles of government entities in the planning, approval, implementation, and monitoring of the conservation plan to protect the natural community whilst accommodating compatible land use under the Federal Land Policy and Management Act's multiple-use policy.

The Southern California Coastal Sage Scrub conservation plan intends to reduce habitat loss and fragmentation, protect land areas for long-term conservation by targeting key locations that would further promote biodiversity and produce greater long-term conservation value, conduct long term research studies to assist in future conservation planning efforts, and engage in best management practices and restoration efforts via the control of exotic and invasive species and fire management.

To read more about the 1993 Coastal Sage Scrub NCCP Guidlines