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    Reports, Presentations & Fact Sheets

Reports & Plans

Lake Warming Trend ~ Geo Physical Research Letters (336 KB PDF) Satellite observations indicate rapid warming trend for lakes in California and Nevada.

2009 Lake Almanor Water Quality Report (1.5MB PDF) Prepared by K. R. Gina Johnston and John McMurtry, Butte Environmental Technologies.  Submitted December 2009.

Lake Almanor Watershed Management Plan (1.4MB PDF)
Prepared by the Sierra Institute for Community and Environment in April 2009.

Lake Almanor Watershed Assessment Report (13MB PDF)
Prepared for the Plumas County Flood Control and Conservation District in March 2007 by CH2MHILL.
Appendix C
Appendices D-H

Lake Almanor Watershed Water Quality Report (5MB PDF)
Prepared for the Plumas County Flood Control and Conservation District in April of 2006 by CH2MHILL.  This report is an appendix of the Watershed Assessement.

Lake Almanor Watershed Monitoring Plan (PDF)
Quality Assurance Project Plan (PDF)

Watershed Map (PDF)
Watershed Sampling Stations (PDF)

Almanor Basin Septage Receiving Feasibility Study (PDF)
prepared for Plumas County in March of 2007 by CH2MHILL.

Presentations

Quagga/zebra mussel presentation- October 2008

State of the Watershed- 2008

Powerpoint Presentation from June 28, 2006 ABWAC Meeting (PDF Version)

Powerpoint Presentation - Moving Forward - July 26, 2006 (PDF Version)

"Almanor Basin Deer Trends" by Dave Walker (PDF Version)

"Land Use and the Challenge of Conserving Wildlife in the Almanor Basin" by Jeff Finn, DFG Wildlife Biologist (PDF Version)

Facts Sheets

ABWAC has published a series of informational brochures (fact sheets) to help the public learn how to maintain a healthy watershed. To download, please click the links below, or to order print copies, call the Sierra Institute at (530) 284-1022 or write watershedinfo@sierrainstitute.us.

What is a Watershed? (293KB PDF)

Maintaining your Septic System (346KB PDF)

Protecting the Almanor Basin from Stormwater Runoff (344KB PDF)

Critical Habitat Areas and Fish & Wildlife of the Lake Almanor Watershed (268KB PDF)