Links to Other Sites
U.S. Geological Survey Real Time Steam Flow Monitoring Sites
Upper Truckee River at South Upper Truckee Road near Meyers
http://waterdata.usgs.gov/ca/nwis/uv/?site_no=10336580&PARAmeter_cd=00065,00060
Upper Truckee River at Highway 50 at Meyers
http://waterdata.usgs.gov/ca/nwis/uv/?site_no=103366092&PARAmeter_cd=00065,00060
Angora Creek near the moutn at the Lake Tahoe Golf Course
http://waterdata.usgs.gov/ca/nwis/uv/?site_no=103366097&PARAmeter_cd=00065,00060
Upper Truckee River at South Lake Tahoe
http://waterdata.usgs.gov/ca/nwis/uv/?site_no=10336610&PARAmeter_cd=00065,00060
Trout Creek near U.S. Forest Service road 12N01 near Meyers
http://waterdata.usgs.gov/ca/nwis/uv/?site_no=10336770&PARAmeter_cd=00065,00060
Trout Creek at Pioneer Trail near South Lake Tahoe
http://waterdata.usgs.gov/ca/nwis/uv/?site_no=10336775&PARAmeter_cd=00065,00060
Truckee Creek near Tahoe Valley
http://waterdata.usgs.gov/ca/nwis/uv/?site_no=10336780&PARAmeter_cd=00065,00060
GENERAL INFORMATION
About Lake Tahoe Site ... photo gallery ... more links to surrounding areas in the upper watershed http://www.aboutlaketahoe.com/hiking/truckee_river.htm
Photographs of waterfalls on the Upper Truckee and other nearby locations. http://www.waterfallswest.com/waterfall.php?id=228
RESTORATION PROJECT RELATED SITES
Federal Register listing for the project: http://www.epa.gov/EPA-IMPACT/2006/September/Day-05/i14625.htm
Description of the restoration project and process from the University of California Davis.
Tahoe Resource Conservation District Restoration Projects
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency watershed work
56 Acre Restoration Project at South Lake Tahoe
GOVERNMENT AGENCY SITES
U.S. Geological Survey: Surface- and Ground Water Characteristics in the Upper Truckee River and Trout Creek Watersheds http://pubs.usgs.gov/wri/wri004001/Text/description.htm
California Tahoe Conservancy: Upper Truckee Riparian Assessment. http://www.tahoecons.ca.gov/library/rip_data/ut_data.html
Nevada Division of Water Resourcews Truckee River Flow Schematic http://water.nv.gov/WaterPlanning/truckee/truckee5.cfm
Tahoe Resource Conservation District list of restoration projects
http://www.tahoercd.org/watershed.php
STUDIES AND PROGRESS REPORTS
Gateway to extensive list of studies on the Truckee River watershed, including the Upper Truckee.
http://truckeeriverinfo.org/doc
Brief 2007 report on Upper Truckee River Projects by ENTRIX consultants Mike Rudd and Charley Miller. Contains general overview and nice maps or the river. http://www.nvwra.org/docs/2008/Truckee_River_Symposium/Entrix_Upper_Truckee_River.pdf
an 84-page 2007 article by Margaret Shanafield of the University of Nevada Reno Gradate Program on Hyrdologic Sciences entitled, "Influences on Water Quality near the Upper Truckee River Outlet in Lake Tahoe, CA-NV." http://www.tahoescience.org/current_science_activities/LTIMP/2007/Turbidity_Shanafield_April.pdf
ACTIVIST AND COMMUNITY GROUPS
Newsletter of the the Upper Truckee River Watershed Stewardship Group that includes schedule of events for the fall.
http://keeptahoeblue.org/pdfs/September_2008_UTRWSG_Newsletter.pdf
RECREATION
Upper Truckee River Out-and-Back Mountain Bike Trail http://www.trails.com/tcatalog_trail.aspx?trailid=BGS143-027
Upper Truckee River and Meiss Lake Trail http://www.trails.com/tcatalog_trail.aspx?trailid=SGS020-023
You Tube video of kayaking on the Upper Truckee river. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKi0mDkNaGA
Waterfall watch on the Upper Truckee
Bicycle Paths at the Upper Truckee
Community Groups
Upper Truckee River Stewardship Group (program of the League to Save Lake Tahoe)
Fish and Fishing
Essay by trout fishing activist Jerry Yesavage of Stanford University about the Lahontan cutthroat trout in the Truckee and Upper Truckee rivers. http://www.stanford.edu/~yesavage/Truckee.html
Ecological Anglers information and about fishing and fly fishing on the Upper Truckee http://www.ecoangler.com/habitat/Upper_Truckee_River.html
Magazine article by Trout Unlimited on Lahontan Cutthroat Trout in the Upper Truckee
Photographs
1967 aerial photograph of the mount of the Upper Truckee and Tahoe Keys as seem from Lake Tahoe. University of Nevada Reno Special Collections http://contentdm.library.unr.edu/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/tahoe&CISOPTR=1062&REC=84
Historical photos of Lake Tahoe from University of Nevada Reno Special Collections. http://contentdm.library.unr.edu/cdm4/browse.php?CISOROOT=/tahoe
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