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What is KRIS?

The Klamath Resource Information System (KRIS) is a Windows-based computer program that allows easy access to data tables, charts, photographs, maps and bibliographic materials relevant to fisheries, water quality and watershed management. KRIS is custom built and is disseminated free on CD, when full projects are funded. There are free-standing KRIS Map projects for each watershed, which require ArcView software to operate, but the newest database now has a KRIS Map Viewer built in. This allows full review of spatial data, but not the power to quarry relationships quantitatively. All contents of all KRIS systems are also now posted to the internet through use of a new KRIS web-builder program.

The KRIS system was devised in the Klamath and Trinity River basins to help measure trends in water quality and track the success of the Klamath River and Trinity River Restoration Programs. Free copies of Version 2.0 of the Klamath-Trinity project CD are available from the Trinity County RCD at (530) 623-6004 (ask for Kelly Sheen). Basin cooperators have been trained to keep KRIS current in their own watersheds. Version 3.0 is scheduled for release in Fall 2003.

KRIS has also been used to support watershed assessment by the California Department of Forestry (CDF) and the California Resources Agency in conjunction with the North Coast Watershed Assessment Program. Free KRIS CDs are available for the Noyo, Big, Ten Mile, Mattole and Gualala River basins and Redwood Creek by calling CDF at (916) 227-2652. These projects have accompanying KRIS Map Arc View projects on a second CD.

Another large-scale KRIS project currently underway is being funded by the Sonoma County Water Agency to assist in regional recovery planning for salmon and steelhead. The projects covers the Russian, Navarro and Garcia River basins as well as Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay tributaries from Marin and southern Sonoma counties. These projects are scheduled for release in Summer 2003.

The Battle Creek Conservancy has funded KRIS Battle Creek projects to track restoration and to support a Battle Creek watershed analysis. Version 2.0 will be available in Fall 2003 and will have the Ecosystem Management Decision Support (EMDS) model and output results built-in.