Links - Other Useful Web Resources

 

California Association of Resource Conservation Districts

http://www.carcd.org

 

Getting Started

Why Watersheds?

http://www.epa.gov/OWOW/watershed/why.html

Wild on Watersheds - CARCD

http://www.carcd.org/wow/wow.htm

EPA Watershed Tools Directory

http://www.epa.gov/OWOW/watershed/tools/

Top 10 Watershed Lessons Learned

http://www.epa.gov/watertrain/execmgmt/l18.htm

NRCS Watershed Planning Services

http://www.ca.nrcs.usda.gov/programs/watershed/

Sierra Nevada Alliance - Watershed Toolkit

http://www.sierranevadaalliance.org

 

Data, Expertise, and Planning Information: Environmental Data Catalogs

CERES Environmental Information Sharing Toolkit

http://gis.ca.gov/catalog/

NBII Metadata Clearinghouse Gateway

http://www.nbii.gov/search/clearinghouse/

Information Center for the Environment

http://ice.ucdavis.edu/

University of California Library Catalogs - MELVYL System Welcome Page

http://melvyl.cdlib.org/F/?func=file&file_name=find-b&local_base=cdl90

 

Plants

Natural Resources Conservation Service PLANTS National Database

http://plants.usda.gov/

CNPS Inventory 2000™ Home Page http://www.mcn.org/a/gajirak/CNPS/Inv2000/HomePage/HomePage.htm

Natural Diversity Data Base

http://www.dfg.ca.gov/whdab/html/cnddb.html

CalFlora Database

http://www.calflora.org/

Plant Specimen Management System for California Herbaria http://www.mip.berkeley.edu/www_apps/smasch/

California Exotic Pest Plant Council

http://www.caleppc.org/

University of California- University and Jepson Herbaria

http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/

 

Animals

The California Wildlife Habitats Relationships Program http://www.dfg.ca.gov/whdab/html/cwhr.html

Natural Diversity Data Base

http://www.dfg.ca.gov/whdab/html/cnddb.html

UC Berkeley Museum of Vertebrate Zoology

http://www.mip.berkeley.edu/mvz/

North American Breeding Bird Survey

http://www.mbr-pwrc.usgs.gov/bbs/

Amphibian Information Website

http://www.pwrc.usgs.gov/amphibians/

California Inland Invertebrate Work Group (CaIIWG)

http://ice.ucdavis.edu/California_Inland_Invertebrate_Work_Group/

 

Habitats

California Rivers Assessment

http://www.ice.ucdavis.edu/newcara/

California Gap Analysis Program

http://www.biogeog.ucsb.edu/projects/gap/gap_home.html

DFG Wetlands Homepage

http://maphost.dfg.ca.gov/wetlands/

Natural Diversity Data Base
http://www.dfg.ca.gov/whdab/html/cnddb.html

The Society for Ecological Restoration, California (SERCAL)

http://www.sercal.org/

 

Expertise

California Spatial Information Library

http://gis.ca.gov/

Directory of Water and Wildland Expertise

http://www.nceas.ucsb.edu/exp/

 

Data about existing groups and projects in California:
Other Projects Similar to Yours

Natural Resource Projects Inventory (NRPI)

http://www.ice.ucdavis.edu/nrpi/

WITS

http://ceres.ca.gov/watershed/

University of California Library Catalogs - MELVYL System Welcome Page http://melvyl.cdlib.org/F/?func=file&file_name=find-b&local_base=cdl90

Environmental Information by Organization

http://ceres.ca.gov/org/index.html

Inventory of Current EPA Efforts to Protect Ecosystems

http://www.epa.gov/ecoplaces/

 

Conservation Planning Recommendations

Land Use Planning Information Network

http://ceres.ca.gov/planning/

Watershed Information Technical System (WITS)

http://ceres.ca.gov/watershed/

Community-Based Environmental Protection (CBEP)

http://www.epa.gov/ecocommunity/

Watershed Planning (Local Community Involvement, Preparing a Watershed Plan ) http://ceres.ca.gov/watershed/plan.html

High Country News - special issue samples consensus efforts across the West http://www.hcn.org/1996/may13/Index_289.html

Making Partnerships Work in Endangered Species Conservation http://www.umich.edu/~esupdate/library/96.09/clark.html

Citizen-Directed Watershed Management: The Oregon Experience

 

Watershed Data:

California Watershed Information Technical System (WITS)

http://ceres.ca.gov/watershed/

Land Use Planning Information Network (LUPIN)

http://ceres.ca.gov/planning

California Rivers Assessment (CARA)

http://www.ice.ucdavis.edu/newcara/

California Environmental Resources Evaluation System (CERES)

http://www.ceres.ca.gov/

Surf Your Watershed

http://www.epa.gov/surf/

Adopt a Watershed

http://www.adopt-a-watershed.org

California Unified Watershed Assessment

http://www.ca.nrcs.usda.gov/water.html (choose "Clean Water Action Plan")

 

California Law

Fish and Game Code, Public Resources Code, and 29 other California codes http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/calaw.html

 

Conservation Funding Source Lists

California Watershed Funding Database

http://watershed.ecst.csuchico.edu/

Jeans News

http://www.cyber-sierra.com

The Non-Profit Resource Center

http://www.nonprofitresourcectr.org

Environmental Finance Program

http://www.epa.gov/efinpage/

A Guidebook of Financial Tools

http://www.epa.gov/efinpage/guidebook/guidebooktp.htm

 

Other Natural Resource Agencies and Groups

CALFED Bay-Delta Program http://calwater.ca.gov

CALFED Bay-Delta Watershed Program http://www.baydeltawatershed.org

California Environmental Protection Agency http://www.calepa.ca.gov/

California Biodiversity Council http://ceres.ca.gov/biodiv/

Sacramento River Watershed Program http://www.sacriver.org