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Southwest U.S. Mechanically Treated Chaparral Photo Series Southwest U.S. Mechanically Treated Chaparral Photo Series

Accurate, complete fuels data are critical for making fuel management decisions and for predicting fire behavior and fire effects. A fuel photo series is a useful reference that allows natural resource managers to quickly quantify fuel and vegetation properties by comparing on site conditions to a series of photos showing a range of calculated fuel loads within a similar vegetative...

Historical methyl mercury in San Francisco Bay Historical methyl mercury in San Francisco Bay

San Francisco Bay, California is considered a mercury-impaired watershed. Elevated concentrations of mercury are found in water and sediment as well as fish and estuarine birds. Sources of mercury to the watershed since 1845 include sediment-associated mercury from mercury mining, mercury losses from gold amalgamation activities in mines of the Sierra Nevada, aerial deposition of mercury...

Pacific Continental Shelf Environmental Assessment (PaCSEA) GIS Resource Database Pacific Continental Shelf Environmental Assessment (PaCSEA) GIS Resource Database

The USGS Western Ecological Research Center conducted seabird and marine mammal surveys for the U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) Pacific Outer Continental Shelf Region to inform future alternative energy planning, development, and management in the northern California Current System (CCS). \r\n\r\nNamed the Pacific Continental Shelf Environmental Assessment (PaCSEA), the...
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