Redwood Community Action Agency Natural Resources Division

Redwood Community Action Agency (RCAA) is a human services agency and Humboldt County's largest nonprofit corporation. Formed in 1982 to help combat poverty, RCAA took on the challenge of creating living wage jobs restoring the environment through its Natural Resources (NR) Division. KRIS Humboldt Bay is a cooperative partnership between RCAA and the Institute for Fisheries Resources. Its objective is to capture all the data acquired in association with recent RCAA Humboldt Bay contracts and projects and to make it available for agencies, scientists and the public. RCAA long term plans include fostering information sharing through the KRIS Humboldt Bay database.

California State Water Resources Control Board North Coast Division http://www.swrcb.ca.gov/

The State Water Resources Control Board has funded numerous RCAA Humboldt Bay projects and this KRIS Humboldt Bay project is funded through Proposition 13. The North Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board staff have participated in peer review of this database and contributed data and documents.

California Department of Fish and Game

The KRIS Humboldt Bay database has assimilated California Department of Fish and Game data of many types, including habitat typing, spawner surveys and downstream migrant trapping. Also included in KRIS Humboldt Bay are photos of mainstem Freshwater Creek restoration projects and surveys carried out in the cooperative Freshwater Creek Salmonid Monitoring Program.

USDA Forest Service Redwood Sciences Lab http://www.rsl.psw.fs.fed.us

The Pacific Southwest Region Experimental Station in Arcata, California, known as the Redwood Sciences Lab, generously shared their scientific literature and data and participated in peer review.

USFS Spatial Analysis Lab, Sacramento http://www.fs.fed.us/database/gps/sacto.htm

The USFS Spatial Analysis Lab in Sacramento provided forest and vegetation data derived from a 1999 Landsat image as well as change scene detection where 1994 and 1998 Landsat scenes were compared. The USFS works cooperatively with CDF FRAP on these remote sensing projects.

California Department of Forestry

The California Department of Forestry (CDF) Santa Rosa field office provided timber harvest data from 1986 to 2004 for the Humboldt Bay basin. CDF data for roads associated with timber harvests are also captured as part of spatial data in KRIS Humboldt Bay.

Institute for Fisheries Resources

The Institute for Fisheries Resources is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the study, protection and enhancement of both marine and anadromous biological resources on the Pacific coast of the United States and Canada. The Institute is independent of but affiliated with the Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen's Associations (PCFFA) -- the largest organization of commercial fishermen on the west coast. IFR has sponsored KRIS projects throughout northern California as well as a recent pilot project for Atlantic salmon in the Gulf of Maine. IFR contractors assisted RCAA with data management and display, photo organization and map assimilation related to KRIS Humboldt Bay.

Salmon Forever

Salmon Forever is a nonprofit organization whose goal is to conduct research on issues pertaining to watersheds and salmon; to promote the importance of watershed health; and to educate citizens so they can effectively participate in public decision-making that affects the communities and watersheds in which they live. Turbidity data and reports from Salmon Forever Humboldt Bay monitoring were made available for assimilation into KRIS Humboldt Bay.

Institute for River Ecosystems/Humboldt Fish Action Council

The Institute for River Ecosystems at Humboldt State University (HSU) now houses data from cooperative monitoring efforts for the Freshwater Creek Monitoring Project. Data collection and analysis cooperators include CDFG, the Humboldt Fish Action Council, the Americorps Watershed Stewards Project and HSU.

City of Arcata

The City of Arcata Natural Resources staff provided geographic information system (GIS) data related to historic wetlands surrounding the northern portions of Humboldt Bay and an associated report. Staff also participated in review of KRIS Humboldt Bay.

Legacy the Landscape Connection (http://www.legacy-tlc.org/)

Legacy the Landscape Connection is a collaboration of community members, landowners, professional scientists, educators, researchers, and students united under the vision of creating an ecological-based, science-informed, and collectively built conservation strategy to reconnect the fragmented landscapes of our ecoregion. Legacy assimilated all northwestern California road data from all sources in 2000 and these data provided a basis for analysis by IFR for road density and road-stream crossings.