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Libraries in the Mid-Klamath Region| Agency Libraries
Other Libraries| Online Databases

Libraries in the Mid-Klamath Region

• Humboldt County Historical Society (Eureka)
  The "primary repository for print materials and photographs that have a bearing on Humboldt County history". Contains over 10,000 photographs, 200 maps, 1000 books, booklets and yearbooks, and other materials.

• Humboldt County Library (Eureka)

• Humboldt State University (Arcata)
  Academic library with extensive information regarding the Klamath River watershed and region. The Humboldt Room contains special collections with regional emphases. The university also houses an extensive collection of live plants in the HSU greenhouse, and pressed plants in the herbarium.

• Siskiyou County Free Library (Yreka)

• Siskiyou County Museum (Yreka)
  Associated with the Siskiyou County Historical Society. Houses a research library that features photographs, manuscripts, books, newspapers and printed ephemera, maps, and an extensive clippings file.

• Southern Oregon University (Ashland)
  A good place to look for graduate theses regarding the Klamath River region.

Agency Libraries

• Online BLM Library

• US EPA Online Library System

Other Libraries

• California Digital Library
  Includes extensive databases and indexes, including the Melvyl Catalog for the University of California System.

• California State Library

• Library of Congress Online Catalog
  Contains approximately 12 million records, representing books, serials, computer files, manuscripts, cartographic materials, music, sound recordings, and visual materials in the Library's collections.

• Melvyl Catalog (University of California and California Digital Library)
  Union catalog of the University of California libraries, the California State Library, the California Academy of Sciences, and several other libraries. Includes 814,000 periodicals titles.

• North State Cooperative Library System
  Combined catalog of thirteen city and county libraries and nine academic libraries in Northern California.

• University of Oregon

• University of Washington

Online Databases

• Agricola
  Contains citations for journal articles and book chapters acquired by the National Agricultural Library. A good place to search for forestry-related journal articles. Does not contain fulltext.

• Cal Flora
  CalFlora is a "comprehensive database of plant distribution information for California, a web accessible, publicly available tool for synthesis of data from disparate sources”.

• CERES
  "CERES is an information system developed by the California Resources Agency to facilitate access to a variety of electronic data describing California's rich and diverse environments. The goal of CERES is to improve environmental analysis and planning by integrating natural and cultural resource information from multiple contributors and by making it available and useful to a wide variety of users”.

• Environmental History bibliography
  Bibliography of historical writings regarding the utilization, management, and appreciation of forest-related resources. Updated quarterly. Does not include fulltext.

• Fire Ecology Database
  Continually updated database of a broad range of fire-related information. International in scope with and emphasis on North America, particularly the southeastern United States. Does not include fulltext.

• GrayLIT Network
  Search several governmental databases of technical reports regarding water quality, wastewater, pesticides, ecological issues, and other environmental sciences.

• Ingenta
  Abstracts of articles from over 20,000 publications. Does not contain fulltext.

• Mammalian Species Index
  Index to the animals included in Mammalian Species, a publication of the American Society of Mammalogists since 1969. “Each issue describes a species in detail with the following information: scientific name and the date named, context and content, diagnosis, general characters, distribution, fossil record, form, function, ontogeny and reproduction, ecology, behavior, literature cited”.

• National Academy Press
  Database of books published for the National Academies. Books are provided fulltext to be read and searched online.

• Natural Resource Projects Inventory
  A searchable database containing "information on thousands of conservation, mitigation and restoration projects being developed and implemented throughout California” Searchable by county.

• Indexes to Administrative Records for Pacific Salmon
  Contains "documents used in listing determinations and recovery planning under the U.S. Endangered Species Act (ESA)”.

• Social Sciences In Forestry
  A current selected bibliography with subjects including legislation, policy and planning, management, economic development, etc., as applied to general forestry, forest management, forest industries, forest goods and services. Does not include fulltext.

• StreamNet
  "StreamNet is a cooperative information management and dissemination project focused on fisheries and aquatic related data in the Columbia River basin and the Pacific Northwest. The project provides a variety of kinds of data related to fish resources and maintains the 1:100,000 scale hydrography layer for the Pacific Northwest. Information is available through the on-line database query or by custom request".
  

• USGS Aerial Photograph Finder
  

• USGS Publications
  

• USGS Geologic Map Database