CAHelpfulLinks

-     http://www.WaterPlan.water.ca.gov
this link takes you to the California Department of Water Resources’ Water Plan Update, which is prepared every five years by Statewide Water Planning. Need California water information and data? You can download or look at the whole 1998 two-volume set.
-     http://awra.org
the American Water Resources Association link. Good water information and links.
-      http://pacinst.org
the Pacific Institute for Studies in Development, Environment, and Security. An interesting link for environmental water concerns.
-      http://www.mwd.dst.ca.us
Metropolitan Water District of California. MWD serves Southern California. This link has So Cal information, and MWD has a good educational program for teachers and students. If you don't live in this area, check with your local water district for materials, programs, and Professional Development Inservices.
-     http://epa.gov/OW/index.html
EPA’s Office of Water Homepage. Information on water quality and pollutants.
-      http://waterwiser.org
Waterwiser is an organization committed to conservation of water.
-      http://elib.cs.berkeley.edu/photos/dwr
UC Berkeley’s CalPhotos project, this link is to California Department of Water Resources photo bank. You may use these photos for free as long as you do not use them for commercial purposes, and cite (give them credit) them as a reference. Teachers, this is great for student reports!
-     http://uswaternews.com/links.html
Great links to other water sites on the Web. Check out US Water News as well.
-     http://wwwdwr.water.ca.gov/Lake_Oroville/home.html
A neat site with recreation and factual information on a really big Californian lake!
-      http://water.usgs.gov/watuse/
USGS water information website, lots of useful information.
-      http://ceres.ca.gov
the California Environmental Resources Evaluation System. A nifty site for California environmental topics.
-      http://calfed.water.ca.gov
the official CALFED site, with information on Bay-Delta ecological restoration.
-      http://www.cfwc.com
the California Farm Water Coalition’s site for agricultural uses of water from farmers’ viewpoints.
-     http://www.water-ed.org
Water Education Foundation website deals with water resource issues.
-      http://endeavor.des.ucdavis.edu/newcara
the California Rivers Assessment Interactive Web Database published by UC Davis.
-      http://www.library.ca.gov
the homepage of the California State Library. Teachers and students, you can look up virtually any book here!
-      http://geogdata.csun.edu
the California Geographical Survey, a project of Dr. William Bowen of Cal State University, Northridge (CSUN). Contains an electronic map library and digital map bases using census data and Digital Elevation Models. DEMs show the surface of the land; for the adventurous and those digitally non-fearful, click on Cartographic Resources: Digital Map Bases, then click on DEMs of California and the West. You will need special viewing software – follow a link on his page to download the software needed.
-      http://geography.miningco.com
Matt Rosenburg is the About.com guide to Geography, a CSUN alum, and wrote the Handy Answer Book of Geography. Check this page out for many geography resources. Great blank map sources for teachers and students.
-     http://centerx.gseis.ucla.edu/outreach/projects/hgp
This one is for teachers! The Center X – California History-Social Science Project at UCLA. Offers information and Professional Development classes regarding California Social Studies for teachers.
-    http://www.goldenstatemuseum.org/landscape.htm
This is a cool site for kids and teachers to look at a topographical view of California’s different regions, in a slide-show interesting type of format! Also visit the Golden State Museum’s homepage at http://www.ss.ca.gov/museum/intro.htm . If you can, visit the museum itself in downtown Sacramento, only blocks from the Capitol.
-     http://geogweb.berkeley.edu/GeoImages/BainCalif/CalClickMap.html
From UC Berkeley comes a clickable California map, great for 4th grade teachers, which leads to links of images of each region.
-      http://ceres.ca.gov/geo_area/bioregion_index.html
Another great clickable map of California bioregions, which leads to environmental links for that region.
-     http://wwwdwr.water.ca.gov/owegs/dir-AV_Unit/videocat.html
K-12 and college teachers, did you know that you can borrow videos through the mail from the California Department of Water Resources? You can, and this is a great resource!
-     http://www.friendsoftheriver.org
Friends of the River supports setting aside more public lands and wild rivers fro permanent protection.
-     http://www.caltrout.org
The California Trout organization is devoted to protecting, preserving, and restoring wild trout.
-     http://siolib-155.ucsd.edu/preston/kayak/Sespe2/
Take a wild ride down the wild and scenic Sespe Creek with kayaker Preston Holmes. Well put together and interesting for non-kayakers as well.
-     http://nature.org
The Nature Conservancy, whose motto is "Saving the Earth's Last Great Places around the World".
-     http://calwaterfowl.org
The website for the California Waterfowl Association - "conserving California's waterfowl, wetlands, and outdoor heritage".

Professional Geography Resources
The links below are to professional geography organizations; check them out!
-     http://www.aag.org
The Association of American Geographers. (Wonder what Geographers do? Click on “Careers in Geography”)
-      http://www.csus.edu/apcg/index.html
The Association of Pacific Coast Geographers.   They are the West Coast region of the AAG, and a fine association in their own right.
-      http://www.calgeog.org
The California Geographical Society, another fine organization.
-      http://humboldt.edu/%7Ecga/
The California Geographical Alliance. Another link for teachers! They are committed to improving geographical education and are quite active.
-    http://www.colorado.edu/geography/virtdept/resources/journal/journals.htm
A resourceful link to geographical scholarly publications, to further your research.