Most base layers for the CARA project have been provided by the California State Teale Data Center through our Memorandum of Understanding with the Department of Fish and Game and the California Department of Forestry. Unfortunately, we are unable to redistribute this data in its raw form to other members of the public because of the nature of the agreements under which Teale data are supplied. Teale is required by state policy to recharge users for the costs of assembling and disseminating its data holdings. Our base hydrology layer originated as the EPA River Reach file, but has been enhanced by Teale, and therefore is also no longer free to the public. We are, however, able to allow users to view and query derived data and maps via the Internet.
Present activities concentrate on searchable bibliographies and user-defined maps.
Future plans call for more sophisticated interactive browsing and query capabilities. Searchable Bibliographies CARA includes a bibliography of available scientific research on river-related resources for the 13 demonstration basins. Several thousand publications have been identified, and over twelve hundred have been entered into a database using a combination of in-house and commercial bibliographic software. The basin bibliographies are searchable on-line and available for browsing or downloading as text files. For some of these references, the table of contents or the entire documents are also on-line.