Government • Natural Resources • Geography, Geology & Climate• Demographics • Statistics • Business & Labor • History • Hot Topics

Government

• Barbara Boxer (Senator)
• Diane Feinstein (Senator)

Locate Your Representative's Web Site AND Write Your Representative

Provided by the House of Representatives, these sites provide contact information and web site for the appropriate representative. Write Your Representative is searched by zip code.

California State and Local Government

Provided by the Library of Congress, this page is a short list of links to the home pages for the state, legislative branches, judicial branch, and a limited number of county, regional and city pages.

Natural Resources

Bureau of Land Management in California

Links to a variety of documents on environmental, wildlife, and public use issues and actions by the BLM.

California - Natural Resources Conservation Service

Information on conservation of soils, water, air, plants and animals in California for a variety of audiences. Current information includes a report on the devastating wildfires of October 2003.

Environmental Protection Agency Region 9: Pacific Southwest (including California)

A variety of information on air, water, waste, pesticides, and toxic materials.

Southern California Socioeconomic Assessment: Sociodemographic Conditions, Projections and Quality of Life Indices (USDA General Technical Report PSW-GTR-187)

Demographic and economic data for California from the Mexico border to San Francisco Bay area to support the development of natural resource policy.

USGS Water Resources of California

Water is a serious issue in much of California, especially in the dry Southern California region and the farming areas that reach into Arizona and Nevada. This site features reports summarizing the situation in various California areas and continuing studies.

Geography, Geology & Climate

Recent Earthquakes in California and Nevada

This site from the U.S. Geological Survey, provides hourly updates to a map (updated within 5 minutes of a recorded quake) showing location and magnitude along with fault lines. Links are also provided to general information about earthquakes and quakes elsewhere in the world.

California Volcanoes and Volcanics

Provided by the USGS, this site lists active and potentially active volcanoes in the state, as well as places to visit with historical volcanic activity.

California Data (Weather and Forecasts)

Short- and long-term forecasts, summaries, warnings, and maps for California weather and climate are all included in this site from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. As this site carries a statement about being eliminated in favor of a new page, an alternate site is the California Nevada River Forecast Center site from the National Weather Service for hydrologic forecasts.

Demographics

California Quick Facts

Capsule summary of demographic data from the Census Bureau.

Statistics

Agricultural Statistics

A brief list of links compiled by the California State Statistician to agricultural reports, agricultural census highlights and the California Department of Food and Agriculture.

Bureau of Labor Statistics' State at a Glance

Tables of data covering the size, Search Insurance Providers by Zip Code Here!rate and more about California's labor force. Current data is broken down monthly for the last six months, but back data is also available through 1991.

California MapStats

Links to a variety of quick statistics furnished by the FedStats site, drawing from various departments and agencies.

Business and Labor

Occupational Safety & Health Administration

Brief page of links to Cal/OSHA sites with contact information. See State Occupational Safety and Health Plans for the related documents on state development of guidelines and legislation.

Small Business Administration: California Offices

Links to the webpages to the six regional offices for the SBA in California.

History

The following are sites from the Library of Congress American Memory series, offering audio and graphic primary sources on California History.

Ansel Adams's Photographs of Japanese-American Internment at Manzanar

Negatives and prints of the more than 200 photographs taken at the Manzanar War Relocation Center in California during WWII.

California Gold: Northern California Folk Music from the Thirties

Part of the American Folklife Center, this WPA Folk Music Project is a field collection of audio and graphic files.

"California as I Saw It": First-Person Narratives of California's Early Years, 1849-1900.

A collection of fulltext eyewitness accounts of the pioneers, '49ers, and others.

Chinese in California

Both text and photographic records of the Chinese immigration into California during the 19th and 20th Centuries.

Before and After the Great Earthquake and Fire: Early Films of San Francisco 1897- 1916

Films capturing the city before, during and after the 1906 disaster.

Hot Topics

Status of the California Electricity Situtation

Links to the legislative history, statistics, and issues surrounding the energy supply crisis in California. Site maintained by the National Energy Information Center of the Department of Energy. See also the California Energy Data Page for discussion of other energy resources.

California Condor

Information and links from the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service on the Condor, the history of legislation, news releases, and various agencies working to save the Condor.