Resource Links
Navarro River Websites
- The Klamath Resource Information System (KRIS) pulls together maps, data tables, charts, photographs and bibliographic resources into an easy-to-use, PC-based computer program. For any designated watershed, KRIS organizes information relevant to fisheries and water quality so that it can be shared quickly and easily among agencies, private landowners and citizens. KRIS projects can be obtained on CDs, free of charge, or can be browsed as web pages by selecting a project title at left. See a map of KRIS projects to aid your selection. These projects were built thanks to the cooperation of many individuals and organizations. KRIS projects can be easily updated, as new information becomes available.
- Navarro River Watershed Restoration Plan. Prepared for Mendocino County Water Agency, California State Coastal Conservancy, and Anderson Valley Land Trust Incorporated. Ukiah. 545 pp. [5Mb]** Entrix Inc., Pacific Watershed Associates, Circuit Rider Productions Inc., Navarro Watershed Community Advisory Group, and D.T. Sicular. 1998.
Local Information
Restoration Non-Profits
Local Land Trusts
Funding
- California Watershed Funding Database a new interactive site that offers streamlined service for those who need information about watershed funding opportunities and the agency personnel who wish to post such opportunities to our web-base database.
Natural Resource Management and Evaluation
Controlling Invasive Plants
- CALWEED DATABASE California Noxious Weed Control Projects Inventory.
- Invasive Plants of California’s Wildlands
- David Theodoropoulos is an independent conservation biologist specializing in germplasm conservation, seed banking, the biology of anthropogenic dispersal, ethnobotany, scientific ethics, and issues concerning the biological commons, the cultural commons, belief-systems in science, intellectual property, centralization/control vs. decentralization/decontrol, and man-nature relationships.
- Team Arundo del Norte is a forum of local, state, and federal organizations dedicated to the control of Arundo donax (giant reed), where it threatens rivers, creeks, and wetlands in Central and Northern California.
- California Exotic Pest Plant Council
Native Plants
- California Native Grass Association
- Native Plants Journal and Propagation Protocol Database
- Reforestation Nurseries Genetic Resources
- Guide to Plant Communities of California
- The PLANTS Database provides standardized information about the vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, hornworts, and lichens of the U.S. and its territories. It includes names, plant symbols, checklists, distributional data, species abstracts, characteristics, images, plant links, references, crop information, and automated tools. PLANTS aids in cost reduction by minimizing duplication and making information exchange possible across agencies and disciplines.
Wildlife
Soils
Roads
- Handbook for Forest and Ranch Roads is a guide for planning, designing, constructing, reconstructing, maintaining, and closing wildland roads. A hard copy of the Handbook for Forest and Ranch Roads and corresponding DVD or videotape is available through the Mendocino County Resource Conservation District 405 South Orchard Avenue Ukiah, California 95482, Telephone: (707) 468-9223, ext. 3, Fax: (707) 468-5278.
- Pronounced "Fish Crossing", this software is intended to assist engineers, hydrologists, and fish biologists in the evaluation and design of culverts for fish passage. It is free and available for download. Version 2.2 of FishXing is currently available and version 3.0 is anticipated for the Spring of 2004.
- Water-Road Interaction Technology Series Documents
- Gravel road maintenance and erosion control. Parts of this website are not applicable to our coastal northern California climate, the New Hampshire author of this website provides road treatment scenarios for snow and freezing conditions.
Forestry, Fire, and Disease
- The Buckeye Conservancy is an organization of family farm, ranch,and forest landowners and resource managers in the North Coast Region of California dedicated to the promotion, communication and implementation of those ideals and policies that support the ecologic and economic sustainability of natural resources and open space in family ownership.
- Certified Wood is a comprehensive resource for information on forest management and product certification worldwide.
- The Community Forestry Resource Center (CFRC), established by the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, promotes responsible forest management by encouraging the long-term health and prosperity of small, privately-owned woodlots, their owners and their communities.
- The Forest Guild promotes ecologically, economically, and socially responsible forestry as a means of sustaining the integrity of forest ecosystems and the human communities dependent upon them. The Guild provides training, policy analysis, and research to foster excellence in stewardship, to support practicing foresters and allied professionals, and to engage a broader community in the challenges of forest conservation and management.
- Fire Safe Council
- Sudden Oak Death and the California Oak Mortality Task Force
Regulatory Programs
General Watershed Information
- CalWater - Watershed Boundaries: CalWater is a spatial dataset of watersheds in California, developed by an Interagency Watershed Mapping Committee (IWMC). For many years, the Natural Resources Conservation Service and other State and Federal agencies, have been working with this committee to map the watersheds and hydrologic units in the State of California. This web site documents the history and current status of this interagency effort.
- Watershed Management Council: The Watershed Management Council is a non-profit organization whose members represent a broad range of watershed management interests and disciplines. Membership includes professionals, students, teachers, and individuals whose interest is in promoting proper watershed management.
- Bay-Delta and Tributaries Project: The Bay Delta and Tributaries (BDAT) Project contains environmental data concerning the San Francisco Bay-Delta and provides public access to that data. Over fifty organizations contribute data voluntarily to this project. The database includes biological, water quality, and meteorological data. These can be used to gauge the health of the estuary and to manage water and environmental resources.
- CALFED Watershed Program: The Watershed Program was established in 1998 as an aid to achieving the overarching goal of the CALFED Bay-Delta Program to restore ecological health and improve water management by working with the community at a watershed level. The goals of the Watershed Program are to provide financial and technical assistance for watershed activities that help achieve the mission and objectives of CALFED, and to promote collaboration and integration among community based watershed efforts.
- Surface Water Ambient Monitoring Program (SWAMP): SWAMP is a statewide monitoring effort designed to assess the conditions of surface waters throughout the state of California. The program is administered by the State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB). Responsibility for implementation of monitoring activities resides with the nine Regional Water Quality Control Boards (RWQCB's) that have jurisdiction over their specific geographical areas of the state. Monitoring is conducted in SWAMP through the Department of Fish and Game and US Geological Survey master contracts and local RWQCBs monitoring contracts.
- US EPA Surf Your Watershed: This service allows you to identify your watershed and search several databases for further information.
- Natural Resource Project Inventory (NRPI)
A Collaborative Effort between the California Biodiversity Council and the University of California at Davis Information Center for the Environment. The signatories of the California Biodiversity Council joined forces to gather information on thousands of conservation, mitigation and restoration projects being developed and implemented throughout California. The result, the Natural Resource Project Inventory (NRPI), has become a comprehensive electronic database searchable on the Internet. NRPI is an expansion of previous inventories including 1) the Watershed Projects Inventory (WPI), 2) the California Ecological Restoration Projects Inventory (CERPI), and 3) the California Noxious Weed Control Projects Inventory.
- California Watershed Assessment Manual (CWAM): In California, many watershed assessments are conducted to guide restoration planning, water and land management decisions, and various land uses. Oregon has a manual to guide watershed assessment, but California does not. So, to assist watershed groups, local agencies, private landowners, and watershed specialists in assessing watershed condition, the State of California is developing the California Watershed Assessment Manual (CWAM).
- California Watershed Network: The Mission of the Watershed Network is to help people protect and restore the natural environments of California watersheds while ensuring healthy and sustainable communities.
- Marin County Stormwater Pollution Prevention Program's Aquatic Macroinvertebrate Sampling Program
- Salmon and Watersheds Mapping Tool
- Russian River Interactive Information System (RRIIS) This website is an educational tool and an interactive communication forum for the public, scientists, agencies, the Russian River Watershed Council (RRWC) and local watershed groups. It is continuously updated with contributions from all those who are working to protect, restore and enhance the health of the Russian River and its watershed.
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