Hydrology, Soils, and Forestry Links

River/Stream Gauge Sites:
USGS Hydrologic Data Collection Program for Oregon. Contains current stages, hydrographs, and historical data (Here is an example). Links to all USGS hydrological data nationwide.
USGS Water Resources of Washington. Similar data for the State of Washington.
Oregon River Stages, from the University of Oregon. Also some stream recreation links.
US Army Corps of Engineers River Stage and Reservoir Regulation Data , for Oregon. This site is focused on rivers where the COE has structures, but includes others also.

Weather data:
Oregon Climate Service. Current weather, historical weather data. This is a complete source for Oregon weather data, with links to national data.

Forests and Forestry:
Oregon State University, College of Forestry: Trees of the Pacific Northwest. Species keys, facts.
Oregon Department of Forestry's Register of Big Trees. Lists state and national champions of most trees native or naturalized in Oregon.
Oregon Department of Forestry. Lots of public information-style pages. There is access to publications, and a search page, too.
The home page of OSU's H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest, Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) site.
USDA Forest Service Home Page. Forest Service databases, maps, public services.
USDA Forest Service Search Engine. For when you don't want to take the time to browse the extensive main home page.

Water Research and Regulation:
Oregon DEQ Water Quality Page. Information on Agency programs and standards. Applications to forest land include temperature standards, 303(d)-list pollution definitions, and more.
Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory's Hydrology Web. Searchable database, good place to look for many different kinds of hydrologic web sites.
Oregon Water Resources Research Institute home page. WRRI newsletter is here.
Oregon Water Resources Department home page. Oregon Laws pertaining to water, groundwater databases, more.
EPA Office of Water Homepage
The US Army Corps of Engineers' Hydrologic Engineering Center

American Fisheries Society

A page of links to fisheries government agencies.

Soils:
USDA NRCS Home Page
Keys to Soil Taxonomy.

Other Government Agencies:
Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife. Similar quality to ODF. Research reports, databases, recreation and regulation information.
BLM Oregon/Washington home page. Limited maps, and program and recreation information. Links to the BLM's national pages.

Colleges and Universities:
Oregon State University College of Foresty home page. You can also visit the Forestry publications list of publications that may be ordered.
University of Oregon Environmental Studies Department home page.
University of Washington College of Forest Resources home page, or Hydrology in the department of Geology (site seems to be down?).
Washington State University Department of Natural Resource Sciences home page.
Humboldt State University Departments of Forestry and Watershed Management or Environmental Resources Engineering.
University of California, Berkeley College of Natural Resources home page.
Natural Resources Research Information pages, at Virginia Tech. If you only go to one site, go here. This is a very useful site, which has databases and journals available online.
University of British Columbia Faculty of Forestry.
Bill James at Guelph has a huge Hydrology Links Page.
A link to (all?)American Universities. Here is another one a lot like it.

See also the Commercial and Product Sites page. The page also has links to pages of links.

I really want this to be a useful site. Please send e-mail to me if you have any suggestions on how to do that better, or if you have more sites that should be included here.

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Last Updated December 5, 1997