PROTOCOL SOURCES

Landscape Condition

• CalFire Fire and Resource Assessment Program (FRAP) Development and Vegetation Trends methodology http://frap.cdf.ca.gov/projects/development_vegetation/index.html 

Biotic Condition

• California Department of Fish and Game protocol: Aquatic Bioassessment Laboratory http://www.dfg.ca.gov/abl/

• California Department of Fish and Game California Salmonid Stream Habitat Restoration Manual http://www.dfg.ca.gov/fish/REsources/HabitatManual.asp

• California Rapid Assessment Method (CRAM) method for riparian condition measures: Collins et al 2008 http://www.cramwetlands.org/documents/   

• California Watershed Assessment Manual II Chapter 4 (Shilling 2005a; periphyton) and 5 (Shilling 2005b; benthic macroinvertebrates) http://cwam.ucdavis.edu/Volume_2/TOC.htm

• EPA rapid bioassessment protocol (Barbour et al. 1999) http://www.epa.gov/owow/monitoring/rbp/ch06main.html  

• Riparian Bird Conservation Plan (California Partners in Flight and Riparian Habitat Joint Venture) methods for monitoring riparian bird populations http://www.prbo.org/calpif/htmldocs/riparian.html 

• SWAMP protocols (“Standard Operating Procedures”)  http://swamp.mpsl.mlml.calstate.edu/  
and selected reports under “Bioassessment” at http://www.swrcb.ca.gov/water_issues/programs/swamp/reports.shtml#bioassessment 

• USGS National Water Quality Assessment Program (NAWQA) http://water.usgs.gov/nawqa/protocols/OFR02-150/index.html  

Chemical & Physical Characteristics

• California Department of Pesticide Regulation http://www.cdpr.ca.gov/docs/emon/surfwtr/protocol.htm 

• California Watershed Assessment Manual II Chapter  2 (Washburn and Schilling 2005) http://cwam.ucdavis.edu/Volume_2/TOC.htm

• Groundwater Ambient Monitoring Program information at http://ca.water.usgs.gov/gama/       

• SWAMP protocols (“Standard Operating Procedures”)  http://swamp.mpsl.mlml.calstate.edu/  

Hydrology and Geomorphology

• California Rapid Assessment Method (CRAM) method for riparian condition measures: Collins et al 2008 http://www.cramwetlands.org/documents/

• California Watershed Assessment Manual II Chapter 3 (Florsheim 2005) http://cwam.ucdavis.edu/Volume_2/TOC.htm

• Florsheim 2005 and references therein provide methods for measuring discharge; measuring sediment transport; calculating effective discharge; assessing substrate and grain size distributions; and assessing morphology (http://cwam.ucdavis.edu/Volume_2/TOC.htm ).

• SWAMP physical habitat procedures (Ode 2007 http://swamp.mpsl.mlml.calstate.edu/resources-and-downloads/standard-operating-procedures )

• USDA Forest Service: Cumulative watershed effects: Reid 1993 (http://www.fs.fed.us/psw/rsl/projects/water/reid_141.pdf) , UCCCWE 2001

DATA SOURCES

Landscape Condition

• CalFire: CalVeg http://www.fs.fed.us/r5/rsl/projects/mapping/accuracy.shtml 

• CalFire: Composite Dataset of California Landcover http://frap.cdf.ca.gov/data/frapgisdata/select.asp 

• CalFire: FRAP Watershed Data http://frap.fire.ca.gov/watersheds/data.asp?HRID=1 

• CalFire and USDA Forest Service: California Land Cover Mapping and Monitoring Program (LCMMP)

• Groundwater Ambient Monitoring Program information at [get link]

• USDA: National Agriculture Inventory Program (NAIP) found at CalAtlas http://www.atlas.ca.gov/download.html 

• USEPA: ATtILA extension for GIS Landscape Analysis (land use quantification) http://www.epa.gov/esd/land-sci/attila/intro.htm  

• USGS: National Wetlands Inventory (NWI) http://www.atlas.ca.gov/download.html  

• USGS: National Hydrography Dataset http://nhd.usgs.gov/  

• USGS: National Land Cover Dataset 2001 (possibly out of date) http://landcover.usgs.gov/natllandcover.php 

• USGS: Seamless Server http://seamless.usgs.gov/

Biotic Condition

• California Department of Fish and Game (Regions 1 and 3 for the North Coast) http://www.dfg.ca.gov/about/data.html  for Biogeographic Information and Observation System (BIOS; http://bios.dfg.ca.gov/), California Native Diversity Database (CNDDB; http://www.dfg.ca.gov/biogeodata/cnddb/),Coho stream habitat assessments, and other data sets; the CDFG Watershed Assessment Program does fisheries-based assessments of coastal streams http://coastalwatersheds.ca.gov/  

• CalEpa and others: Environmental Protection Indicators for California (EPIC) project is responsible for developing and maintaining a set of "environmental indicators" for California. http://oehha.ca.gov/multimedia/epic/aboutepic.html  

• CalFlora (for specific plant species) http://www.calflora.org/  

• California Native Plant Society (for specific plant species) http://www.cnps.org/  

• EPAs Western Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Program (WEMAP) http://www.epa.gov/region09/water/wemap/surface.html  

• NOAA's National Marine Fisheries Service Central California Coast Coho Salmon Recovery Plan (in press) NOAA's National Marine Fisheries Service Southern Oregon Northern California Coho Salmon Recovery Plan

• Riparian Habitat Joint Venture: data on riparian habitat restoration in California, especially for birds http://www.rhjv.org/  

• Riparian Bird Conservation Plan (California Partners in Flight and Riparian Habitat Joint Venture) monitoring data for some focal species http://www.prbo.org/calpif/htmldocs/riparian.html 

• SWAMP BMI,  stream assessment, and other reports including Ode 2007, SWAMP 2005, and Ode and Rehn 2005 http://www.swrcb.ca.gov/water_issues/programs/swamp / 

Chemical and Physical Characteristic (Water Quality)

• California Monitoring and Assessment Program (CMAP). The CAMP monitoring project was developed in collaboration with the SWRCB’s Non-Point Source Pollution control Program (NPS), SWRCB’s SWAMP program and the US EPA’s Region IX.

• Department of Water Resources (DWR) Integrated Water Resources Information System (IWRIS) http://www.water.ca.gov/iwris/  

• DWR Water Plan Information Exchange: hub with links to various databases http://www.waterplan.water.ca.gov/waterpie/index.cfm  

• DWR Water Plan and Updates: water quality improvement strategies and data on water use http://www.waterplan.water.ca.gov/waterquality/water_quality.cfm 

• EPA TMDL program http://www.epa.gov/OWOW/tmdl/ 

• EPA WEMAP (Western Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Program; http://www.epa.gov/region09/water/wemap/surface.html) for physical habitat structure, sediment metabolism, sediment chemistry, water quality parameters, and riparian vegetation.

• SWAMP   http://www.swrcb.ca.gov/water_issues/programs/swamp/  , including water quality and toxicity data at http://swamp.mpsl.mlml.calstate.edu/online-data 

• SWRCB North Coast Basin Plan http://www.waterboards.ca.gov/northcoast/water_issues/programs/basin_plan/basin_plan.shtml 

• USGS groundwater quality data http://ca.water.usgs.gov/gama/publications.htm  

Hydrology and Geomorphology

• DWR Integrated Water Resources Information System (IWRIS) http://www.water.ca.gov/iwris/  

• USEPA Watershed Assessment of River Stability and Sediment Supply (WARSSS) http://www.epa.gov/warsss/sedsource/streamflo.htm 

• USGS National Hydrography Dataset http://nhd.usgs.gov/  

• USGS National Water Information System (NWIS) http://waterdata.usgs.gov/nwis/rt