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- 1997 Northern California Floods - Comprehensive northern California flood-related information and annotated website links, especially for the floods of January 1997.
www.skdesigns.com/floods
- A list of native ecosystem references. - A select list of references.
www.laspilitas.com/referenc.htm
- Blackout - PBS program FRONTLINE and The New York Times join forces to investigate the story behind the California energy crisis.
www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/blackout
- Bolsa Chica News - This site provides news and information on the precendent-setting Bolsa Chica legal decision.
www.californiahabitat.com
- Books by David Carle - Drowning the Dream, California's Water Choices at the Millennium - an environmental history of the state, focusing on water, population, and environmental change. Mono Lake Viewpoint - essays about an inland sea.
users.qnet.com/~carle
- CalFlora - Database containing summary geographic and ecological distribution information for over 8000 California vascular plant taxa, as well as additional habitat information for rare species of the Sierra Nevada.
www.calflora.org
- California Botanical Society - Systematics, ecology, evolution, and natural history of the plants of California and adjacent western North America. Publisher of the journal Madroño.
www.calbotsoc.org
- California Coastal Conservancy - State agency established in 1976 to purchase, protect, restore, and enhance California's coastal resources. Includes online edition of California Coast and Ocean magazine.
www.coastalconservancy.ca.gov
- California CUPA Forum - An association of agencies coordinating the consistent implementation of hazardous materials regulatory programs in the state of California.
www.calcupa.net
- California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection - Includes information on fire safety, the state fire plan, and resource management programs.
www.fire.ca.gov
- California Department of Pesticide Regulation - News, publications, laws, regulations, and grant request information.
www.cdpr.ca.gov
- California Energy Crisis - News and information about the California energy crisis with updates about environmental impacts and energy saving tips.
www.caglobalwarming.org/energy_crisis.shtml
- California Sea Lion (Zalophus californianus) - Facts, photos and videos of the California Sea Lion.
www.thebigzoo.com/Animals/California_Sea_Lion.asp
- California Sustainable Agriculture Working Group - A coalition dedicated to promoting an ecologically sustainable and socially just food system. Describes group news, events and projects, and related headlines.
www.calsawg.org
- California Underground: Our Caves and Subterranean Habitats - Educational materials and photographic tours on the formation and occurrence of different types of caves, cave biology, and cave conservation. From the Oakland Museum of California.
www.museumca.org/caves/onli_realm.html
- California Wild Heritage Campaign - Protecting California's last remaining public wilderness and wild rivers
www.californiawild.org
- California Wildflowers - Look-up photos and descriptions of California wildflowers by color, common name, Latin name or family.
www.calacademy.org/research/botany/wildflow/index.html
- California's Wildlife - Biological information on the more than 600 amphibians, birds, mammals, and reptiles regularly found in California.
www.dfg.ca.gov/whdab/html/cawildlife.html
- CERES: California Environmental Resources Evaluation System - CERES is an information system developed by the California Resources Agency to facilitate access to a variety of environmental data.
www.ceres.ca.gov
- Clean Power Estimator - Provides California residential electric customers a personalized estimate of the costs and benefits of investing in a photovoltaic (PV) solar or small wind electric generation system.
www.consumerenergycenter.org/renewable/estimator
- Climate Change in California - Union of Concerned Scientists fact sheets on the potential effects of global climate change on the state's bioregions and water resources.
www.ucsusa.org/climatechange/california.html
- Faultline Magazine - Environmental news, stories and information for Californians. Includes excerpts from the writing of Gerald Haslam.
www.faultline.org
- Freeing a Hydroelectric Giant, California Frets About Control - NY Times analysis of constraints on hydroelectric generation in the state. [Subscription required - free.]
www.nytimes.com/library/national/071900ca-dams.html
- Friends of the Gualala River - A group dedicated to protecting the Gualala River watershed and the species living within it.
www.gualalariver.org
- GIS Data for Northern California - Links to sites with geographic information systems (GIS) data, including many kinds of maps, climate data and GPS data.
www.pacificsites.com/~cbrooks/gis1.shtml
- GoldenStateImages - Marine Fish of California - Photography of marine fish species found along the California coast including garibaldi, molas, blue shark, dorado, baracuda, rays and more
www.goldenstateimages.com/fish.htm
- Groundwater Resources Association of California - Nonprofit organization for the protection, preservation, improvement of California ground water against pollution. Site has information about the organization and its activities, job announcements, and related material.
www.grac.org
- Information Center for the Environment - A cooperative effort of environmental scientists at the University of California, Davis and collaborators at over thirty private, state, federal, and international organizations interested in environmental protection.
ice.ucdavis.edu
- Landscaping with Native plants - Landscaping with Native plants
www.laspilitas.com/classes/landscap.htm
- Las Pilitas - California native plants, their ecology and biology. If you're after a native plant, native landscaping or restoration of native systems, this is the page.
www.laspilitas.com
- Our Poisoned Bay - Despite end to direct piping of sewage, pollution worse now than 30 years ago according to article from the San Francisco Chronicle.
www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/archive/1999/08/02/MN14115.DTL&type=printable
- Planning and Conservation League - seeks to protect the California environment through state legislation, the admnistrative process, and through statewide ballot measures.
www.pcl.org
- Sacramento Fish and Wildlife Office, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service - Working with others to conserve fish, wildlife, plants, and their habitats in California's Central Valley, Sierra Nevada, and San Francisco Bay areas.
sacramento.fws.gov
- Seal Experience - Comprehensive site about the northern elephant seal. Subjects include: mating, diet, predators, birthing, and diving. Descriptions of and directions to rookeries along the California coast.
www.sealexperience.com
- Sierra Los Tulares Land Trust - To protect natural, scenic, agricultural, and historic lands of the southern Sierra Foothills and Tulare Valley through stewardship, restoration and education.
sltlt.org
- Southern California Association of Publicly Owned Treatment Works - A non-profit corporation organized to represent the interests of publicly owned treatment works in southern california
www.scap1.org
- Sudden Oak Death - Created by the University of California's Sudden Oak Death Research Team, this site addresses the increasing number of oak trees in California that are dying from the fungal disease Phytophthora, and the effects the infestation is having on forest ecology.
camfer.CNR.Berkeley.EDU/oaks
- The NorthWest Petaluma Rural Alliance - Focus on pollution of Marin Creek by Petaluma Mushroom Farm.
petmushroom.org
- The Plight of California's Reef Fish - Information, links and documents about the decline of and management plans for California nearshore reef fish, also known as shallow water rockfish, inhabitants of the kelp forest.
www.californiafish.org
- The Watershed Nursery - Provides plants native to the San Francisco Bay/Delta watershed, for habitat restoration projects. Contract growing and collection of site-specific gene-stock, also available.
home.earthlink.net/~thewatershednursery
- UC Discovery Grant - Industry University Cooperative Research - The University of California's Industry-University Cooperative Research Program provides UC Discovery Grants for research that brings new discoveries into the marketplace and enhances the California economy.
www.ucdiscoverygrant.org
- UC Life Sciences Informatics Program - The Life Sciences Informatics Program is a source of funding that is available to any scientist with Principal Investigator status at any University of California campus or affiliated National Lab.
lsi.ucdavis.edu
- UCR Glassy-winged Sharpshooter Resources - Describes Pierce's disease, a threat to California vineyards, and the leaf-hopper that carries it, with maps of distribution and measures taken to combat it.
www.ucr.edu/news/gwss
- University of California Industry-University Cooperative Research Program - The University of California's Industry-University Cooperative Research Program provides matching grants for research in biotechnology, digital media, communications, microelectonics, information technology, semiconductor manufacturing, and other fields.
uc-industry.berkeley.edu
- University of California National Reserve System - Newsletter, history, journal, and system map.
nrs.ucop.edu
- University of California Small Farm Center - Research and information for small-scale growers on topics including specialty crops and marketing.
www.sfc.ucdavis.edu
- Watchable Wildlife - Collection of articles about birdwatching and other wildlife viewing from the Department of Fish and Game's "Outdoor California" magazine.
www.dfg.ca.gov/watchable
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