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Governor of California Arnold Schwarzenegger and Secretary Salazar prior to announcing $1 Billion in water related investments nationwide, including \$260 million to help California address long-term water supply challenges and devastating drought conditions.

The Souris River located above Minot, North Dakota.

USGS hydrologic technicians survey the volume of water discharging across flooded state road 141 from the Withlacoochee River near Lee, Florida (Monday, April 13, 2009).
Courtesy of the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission

The dry landscape of northwest Florida floods with extreme highwater from the Withlacoochee River.

Cattle in California rangelands, Coyote Ridge, Santa Clara Valley, Calif.

North Dakota Discovery Farms Embden 1 waterway site, which is a surface water flume with surface opening to drain tile pipe.

Debris from the Withlacoochee River near Lee, Florida, downstream from Pinetta, Florida, where the record gage height was recorded last week. (Monday, April 13, 2009)

Hydrologic technicians measure the overflow from the swollen Withlacoochee River, a tributary of Florida's Suwannee River, during a flood in April 2009.

Bill Damschen(USGS) collecting a grab sample after a rain event from the outflow pipe drain tiles, at the North Dakota Discoery Farms Embden Farm located in southeast Cass County about 8 miles south of Embden, North Dakota.

Flooding on the Cannonball River at Breien, North Dakota.

USGS gage house located at Cannonball River at Breien, ND has recorded 100 years of data.

Souris River and streamgage house to the right in April.

USGS hydrologic technician Erik Ohlson measures the discharge of the Suwannee River floodwaters coming over US highway 90 near Ellaville, Florida. (Saturday, April 11, 2009)

Madison Blue Springs State Park near Blue Springs, Florida flooded by the Withlacoochee River on Saturday, April 11.

The Field Records Collection has many materials types including: field notebooks, sketches, annotated maps, unpublished manuscripts, plane-table sheets, annotated aerial photographs, sample analysis, stratigraphic columns, lithologic logs, and geologic cross sections.

Older materials and recently arrived items in the Field Records Collection are in various states of preservation and documentation.

Hunting for minnows in a freshwater swamp, LA

Red River of the North flooding Grand Forks. The obelisk partially underwater.

An Autumnalis cherry blossom tree is photographed during peak bloom with the Washington Monument and Tidal Basin in the background.

Pale-blue sponges and plate-like coral colonies (Agaricia agaricites) grow on mangrove prop roots.

Japanese flowering cherry tree blooms near the Jefferson Memorial.