User:Gbashore/Choose an Article

Article Selection
Please list articles that you're considering for your Wikipedia assignment below. Begin to critique these articles and find relevant sources.

Option 1

 * Sacramento River
 * Article Evaluation:
 * The article seems to be fairly thorough and dense with a variety of topics included. It goes into the course of the river, the valley surrounding, discharge, watershed, physiography, land use, geology, history, and more. While it does describe more rare animal sightings in the area such as those of whales and sea lions, I think it would be nice to explore other more common types of wildlife that can be found in and along the river. I would want to provide information not only about the creatures but also their influence on the land and how they contribute to the local ecosystem. It would also be interesting to dive into the an exploration of the plants that are found along the river, something that wasn't done in depth previously. :
 * Sources
 * Sommer, Ted R., et al. “Effects of flow variation on channel and floodplain biota and habitats of the Sacramento River, California, USA.” Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems, vol. 14, no. 3, 2004, pp. 247-261. Wiley Online Library, Effects of flow variation on channel and floodplain biota and habitats of the Sacramento River, California, USA., https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/aqc.620?casa_token=KzzcB04hj3gAAAAA:DYh292QoQO26248b4w3Y0G8aR7HUPjMP7HHXSAsB22KNiJnFez3Cek84sWVO0jzdB5ZionmCIUnzBNE
 * Derugin, Vasilissa V., et al. “Response of medium- and large-sized terrestrial fauna to corridor restoration along the middle Sacramento River.” Restoration Ecology, vol. 24, no. 1, 2015, pp. 128-136. Wiley Online Library, https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/rec.12286?casa_token=MqOz6rh0oqsAAAAA:EXWh77jIbwM0yhidAl2DG8WYM_uMDLID6NfG2e9idGaLBX9XFUPYJtjZNu7cpDzTxeKSiL7Jvcm1dYA. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/rec.12286?casa_token=MqOz6rh0oqsAAAAA:EXWh77jIbwM0yhidAl2DG8WYM_uMDLID6NfG2e9idGaLBX9XFUPYJtjZNu7cpDzTxeKSiL7Jvcm1dYA
 * Sommer, Ted R., et al. “Effects of flow variation on channel and floodplain biota and habitats of the Sacramento River, California, USA.” Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems, vol. 14, no. 3, 2004, pp. 247-261. Wiley Online Library, Effects of flow variation on channel and floodplain biota and habitats of the Sacramento River, California, USA., https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/aqc.620?casa_token=KzzcB04hj3gAAAAA:DYh292QoQO26248b4w3Y0G8aR7HUPjMP7HHXSAsB22KNiJnFez3Cek84sWVO0jzdB5ZionmCIUnzBNE
 * Derugin, Vasilissa V., et al. “Response of medium- and large-sized terrestrial fauna to corridor restoration along the middle Sacramento River.” Restoration Ecology, vol. 24, no. 1, 2015, pp. 128-136. Wiley Online Library, https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/rec.12286?casa_token=MqOz6rh0oqsAAAAA:EXWh77jIbwM0yhidAl2DG8WYM_uMDLID6NfG2e9idGaLBX9XFUPYJtjZNu7cpDzTxeKSiL7Jvcm1dYA. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/rec.12286?casa_token=MqOz6rh0oqsAAAAA:EXWh77jIbwM0yhidAl2DG8WYM_uMDLID6NfG2e9idGaLBX9XFUPYJtjZNu7cpDzTxeKSiL7Jvcm1dYA
 * Derugin, Vasilissa V., et al. “Response of medium- and large-sized terrestrial fauna to corridor restoration along the middle Sacramento River.” Restoration Ecology, vol. 24, no. 1, 2015, pp. 128-136. Wiley Online Library, https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/rec.12286?casa_token=MqOz6rh0oqsAAAAA:EXWh77jIbwM0yhidAl2DG8WYM_uMDLID6NfG2e9idGaLBX9XFUPYJtjZNu7cpDzTxeKSiL7Jvcm1dYA. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/rec.12286?casa_token=MqOz6rh0oqsAAAAA:EXWh77jIbwM0yhidAl2DG8WYM_uMDLID6NfG2e9idGaLBX9XFUPYJtjZNu7cpDzTxeKSiL7Jvcm1dYA

Option 2

 * Aptos Creek:
 * Article Evaluation:
 * This article is very sparse and doesn't have a lot of information about wildlife, recreation, or human uses. There are small sections on history, watershed, and course but it is clear that a lot more information could be added in order to make a more comprehensive description of the creek and all that it has to offer.
 * Sources:Abdel-Ghaffer, Saber M. “Effects of the Hinge Restrainers on the Response of the Aptos Creek Bridge during the 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake.” Earthquake Spectra, vol. 13, no. 2, 1997. Sage Journals, https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1193/1.1585940?journalCode=eqsa . Ellen, Stephen D., and Gerald F. Wieczorek. Landslides, Floods, and Marine Effects of the Storm of January 3-5, 1982, in the San Francisco Bay Region, California. U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1434, 1988, https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=p2hcGGCa1HQC&oi=fnd&pg=PA265&dq=aptos+creek&ots=scAAIuqx_h&sig=cQA08bIpXz3kuFhETOE73leBf8I#v=onepage&q=aptos%20creek&f=false.
 * Sources:Abdel-Ghaffer, Saber M. “Effects of the Hinge Restrainers on the Response of the Aptos Creek Bridge during the 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake.” Earthquake Spectra, vol. 13, no. 2, 1997. Sage Journals, https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1193/1.1585940?journalCode=eqsa . Ellen, Stephen D., and Gerald F. Wieczorek. Landslides, Floods, and Marine Effects of the Storm of January 3-5, 1982, in the San Francisco Bay Region, California. U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1434, 1988, https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=p2hcGGCa1HQC&oi=fnd&pg=PA265&dq=aptos+creek&ots=scAAIuqx_h&sig=cQA08bIpXz3kuFhETOE73leBf8I#v=onepage&q=aptos%20creek&f=false.

Option 3

 * Sly Park, California:
 * Article Evaluation
 * This article barely has any information other an a brief description of where Sly Park is located. It could use more information regarding history, ecology, wildlife and their influence, to name a few things that would make the article a lot more thorough and comprehensive. However, there don't seem to be a lot of scholarly sources regarding Sly Park which would make doing so difficult. :
 * Sources:Van Ooy, Daphne J., and John J. Carroll. “The spatial variation of ozone climatology on the Western slope of the Sierra Nevada.” Atmospheric Environment, vol. 29, no. 11, 1995, pp. 1319-1330. Science Direct, https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/135223109400345L .: