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Bookmark or Share- GIS Viewer - Sacramento RiverA dialog will display from which you can change the current basemap and its opacity. Saving your map: Save on the top toolbar. A dialog will display from which you can generate a web-link which will load your custom map. An interactive map viewer allowing visualization and access to various datasets within the Sacramento River GIS.
- Topic: Sacramento River - Water Education FoundationThe Sacramento River is California’s largest river, providing 35 percent of the state’s developed water supply. The river helps support the valley’s millions of acres of irrigated agriculture and is home to wildlife and a range of aquatic species, including rearing habitat for 70 percent of all salmon caught off the California coast.
- Atlases of the Sacramento RiverThe Sacramento River Geomorphic Atlas (1896-2012) (SRGA) documents the geomorphology of the middle reach of the Sacramento River from Red Bluff to Colusa, California, shown in Figure 1. The SRGA was created using a combination of geologic maps, U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) topographic maps, U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and National ...
- Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta - Water Education FoundationBlog: The view from space keeps betting better. The 30-acre pear orchard in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta has been in Brett Baker’s family since the end of the Gold Rush. After six generations, though, California’s most precious resource is no longer gold – it’s water. And most of the state’s freshwater is in the delta.
- Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta - Water Education FoundationThe Delta is formed by the Sacramento River flowing south to meet the north-flowing San Joaquin River just south of Sacramento, where the rivers mingle with smaller tributaries and tidal flows. The rivers’ combined freshwater flows through the Carquinez Strait, a narrow break in the Coast Range, and into San Francisco Bay’s northern arm ...
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