"The practice of timber harvesting on state and private lands in California is, in most cases, failing to adequately protect water quality and endangered and threatened species. California forestry practices have been criticized in a number of state and federal government and scientific and academic reports as insufficient to protect public trust resources such as fisheries and water quality. These documented concerns are the subject of this paper." -- Report on Timber Harvesting and Water Quality by the California Senate Office of Research (Adobe PDF)

Watershed Science

Basic Concepts- Hydrology, the Hydrologic Cycle, Watershed, Watershed Management, and Watershed Water Balance (U.C.C.E.)
A SCIENTIFIC BASIS FOR THE PREDICTION OF CUMULATIVE WATERSHED EFFECTS (UC Committee on Cumulative Watershed Effects)
Forestry and Watershed Analysis: Publications list of Leslie Reid, USDA Forest Service
Salmonid Guidelines for Forestry Practices in California

KRIS Coho
What is KRIS?
Perspectives: Forum on Fisheries and Aquaculture
Environmental Law and the Russian River S.F. Weekly article
How to Lose Your Political Virginity while Keeping Your Scientific Credibility

Russian River Watershed Council

Background to Russian River Watershed Council
Russian River Ecosystem Restoration (Russian River Watershed Council)
News of the RRWC

TMDLS (Total Maximum Daily Load -- a measure of allowable stream pollutants)

TMDL Program (Link)
State 303(d) Impaired-Threatened Waters (Map link, EPA; note the sediment-impaired waters)
TMDLs and the Timber Industry
RRRAUL TMDL Comment
Letter to WQRCB on the Garcia TMDL
Garcia River Watershed TMDL Letter of Support (RWQCB)
Garcia River TMDL and Implementation Plan (RWQCB)
EPA Proposes To Get Tough On Water Pollution Caused by Logging 
Comment on EPA Proposal
TMDLs and the Forest Practice Rules
TMDLs and the Timber Industry
Forestry and TMDL News
TMDL News
TMDL Effectiveness
TMDL Fact Sheet
TMDL Handout
TMDL Process Flow Chart
TMDL Litigation (EPA)
The Clean Water Network (Link)
Anti-TMDL Coalition Approaches the Governor
TMDL Bill Signed by Gov. Davis
TMDLs -- U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeal Decision: S.F. Baykeepers vs. Christine Todd Whitman, Administrator of EPA (4/15/2002)
North Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board: TMDLs (Link)
Levine Comments: Draft Water Quality Control Policy For Developing California's Clean Water Act Section 303 (d) List
Levine Comments on SWRCB Waivers for Timber Operations (Make it so -- No more waivers! No more free ride!)
 (USGS) National Water Quality Assessment (NAWQA)
North Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board ( RWQCB Webpage)
WATER QUALITY is a CDF RESPONSIBILITY
Regional Water Quality Control Board Hearing: Timber Harvest Operatons Waste Discharge Requirements - Waiver
Clean Water
The Clean Water Network (Link)
U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeal Decision: S.F. Baykeepers vs. Christine Todd Whitman, Administrator of EPA (4/15/2002)
CATs Settles Lawsuit with the EPA on the effect of Pesticides on Salmon and Wildflower Endangered Species
Friends of the Gualala River
Judge orders EPA to protect salmon from pesticides

Microclimate

ANGELS ON THE HEAD OF A PIN (Helen Libeu)

Rockpile Creek Aerial (Click to view)
Microclimate Rule Petition (HTML, PDF) (A proposal to moderate the environmental impacts of clearcutting and other even-aged management logging methods)
Letter to BOF re Microclimate Petition and Stream Temperatures (HTML, PDF)
Rule on Microclimates proposed at BOF (on 9/10/03)
More on Microclimate Rule (also: PDF version)
Presentation on Microclimates at BOF
PDF version of Microclimate Presentation
PowerPoint version of Microclimate Presentation
Estimating Cumulative Effects of Clearcutting on Stream Temperatures (USGS)
Stream Network and Stream Segment Temperature Models Software (USGS)
Microclimate Rule Petition (HTML, PDF) (A proposal to moderate the environmental impacts of clearcutting and other even-aged management logging methods)
Landslide Report
Landslides, Logging, Roads, Rain and Streams
Memo to BOF re Clearcutting, Landslides, and the Microclimate Rule
Clearcutting Causes Landslides
Landslides and Clearcuts: What Does The Science Really Say?

Articles

Watershed Assessment? Forest Practices?
Approaching Messy Problems: Strategies for Environmental Analysis
Book Review: Saving the Marin-Sonoma Coast
"The Russian River Perspective" -- Student Environmental Page 
River Guardians -- Photos of R.R. Gravel Mining

Comments

Letter to Russian River Watershed Council
Whither the Russian River Watershed Council?
Testimony on Forestry and Salmon
RRWC Ad Hoc Assembly: Letter to USACE
RRWC Meeting: Jan. 29, 2000
Letter re DFG 1600 Process
Letter to Gov. Davis re CDF Staff Funding
G.R.I.N. to Governor Davis
WATER QUALITY is a CDF RESPONSIBILITY
Anti-TMDL Coalition Approaches the Governor
RRRAUL Letter to WQRCB re Timber Harvest Operatons Waste Discharge Requirements - Waiver
Memo to the Sierra Club: Pay More Attention to Water Quality

Watershed Links

RRRAUL Home | Search RRRAUL | News | Logging | Fishery | Watershed | Photographs | Contacts | Organization | Calendar | External Links |