User:Shannon1


 * Sandbox 0: Sacramento River
 * Sandbox 1: Rio Grande
 * Sandbox 2:
 * Sandbox 3: Feather River
 * Sandbox 4: Zhuoshui River
 * Sandbox 5: Missouri River
 * Sandbox 6: Baker River (Washington)
 * Sandbox 7: Calaveras River
 * Sandbox 8: Wenaha River

I have been on Wikipedia since 2008 and mostly edit topics related to rivers, dams, waterfalls, and that sort of thing, particularly along the West Coast of North America.

See my maps page and my useful interactive river flow/reservoir page for water nerds (work in progress).

Good and Featured articles

 * Aliso Creek (Orange County)
 * Colorado River
 * Willamette River (with Finetooth and Jsayre64)
 * Auburn Dam
 * Central Valley Project
 * Kaweah River
 * Kings River (California)
 * Kootenay River
 * Laguna Canyon
 * Lee's Ferry
 * Merced River
 * Missouri River
 * New Don Pedro Dam
 * New Melones Dam
 * O'Shaughnessy Dam (California)
 * Oroville Dam
 * Santa Ana River
 * Snake River
 * Stanislaus River
 * Stikine River
 * Trinity River (California)

Other articles

 * Aliso and Wood Canyons Wilderness Park
 * Asotin Creek
 * August Complex fire
 * Amistad Dam
 * Anaheim Bay
 * Big Creek Hydroelectric Project
 * California State Water Project
 * Coldwater Lake (Washington)
 * Cottonwood Creek (Sacramento River tributary)
 * Dixie Fire
 * Dworshak Dam
 * Eel River (California)
 * Flaming Gorge Dam
 * Friant Dam
 * Gibraltar Dam
 * Gibson Dam
 * Glen Canyon Dam
 * Grande Ronde River
 * Hetch Hetchy
 * Kings Canyon National Park
 * Mackenzie River
 * Matilija Fire
 * Matilija Wilderness
 * Middle Fork American River
 * Mill Creek (Walla Walla River tributary)
 * Mokelumne Aqueduct
 * Morena Dam
 * Navajo Dam
 * OnTrack
 * Pine Flat Dam
 * Pit River
 * Potter Valley Project
 * Sacramento River
 * Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta
 * Salween River
 * San Bernardino Mountains
 * San Gabriel River (California)
 * San Joaquin River
 * San Juan River (Colorado River tributary)
 * San Juan–Chama Project
 * San Rafael Falls
 * Seven Oaks Dam
 * Sevier River
 * Shasta Dam
 * Stony Creek (Sacramento River tributary)
 * Sweetwater Dam
 * Terminus Dam
 * Tuolumne River
 * 1970 Huascarán debris avalanche
 * 2014 West Salt Creek landslide

Awards
Thank you everyone who's appreciated my work in this community!

World

 * Natural Earth – small scale vector data with worldwide coverage.
 * USGS EarthExplorer
 * CGIAR - Medium scale SRTM elevation data in 5 degree chunks.
 * DEMIS Mapserver - raster shaded relief. I used to use this a lot more.
 * HydroSHEDS - global river basin data
 * Global Lakes and Wetlands Database
 * Geofabrik

United States

 * The National Map basic download client.
 * National Hydrography Dataset direct download
 * Key to NHD regions
 * Multi-Resolution Land Characteristics Viewer - useful for custom (dynamic) extracts.
 * TIGER/Line Shapefiles download via county
 * USGS Datasets search via Data.gov
 * Topographic and Bathymetric Shaded Relief of North America - Direct Download
 * The National Map Small Scale Data – useful predefined areas
 * 100-Meter Resolution Color Shaded Relief of the Conterminous United States
 * USFS Data Extract tool

California

 * CalFish Stream and Lake data
 * Caltrans GIS Library
 * Los Angeles County GIS Data Portal
 * Los Angeles Metro
 * Orange County Transportation Authority
 * Riverside County Spatial Data
 * San Bernardino Associated Governments SB County Transportation data
 * US Forest Service Pacific Southwest Region
 * 

Other/to sort

 * Dreamflows
 * A Guide to Beautiful Reliefs in QGIS
 * http://gis-lab.info/qa/vmap0-eng.html
 * http://www.webgis.com/terr_pages/CA/dem75/losangeles.html
 * http://www.mapcruzin.com/free-united-states-shapefiles/free-california-arcgis-maps-shapefiles.htm
 * http://waterbase.org/download_data.html
 * List of USGS HUCs

<!-- ===Books===
 * Durham, David L. (1998). California's Geographic Names: A Gazetteer of Historic and Modern Names of the State. Quill Driver Books. ISBN 1-88499-514-4.
 * Durham, David L. (2001). Durham's Place Names of the California North Coast: Includes Del Norte, Humbolt, Lake, Mendocino & Trinity Counties. Quill Driver Books. ISBN 1-88499-526-8.
 * Durham, David L. (2001). Durham's Place Names of Greater Los Angeles. Quill Driver Books. ISBN 1-88499-528-4.
 * Gudde, Erwin G.; Bright, William (2004). California Place Names: The Origin and Etymology of Current Geographical Names. University of California Press. ISBN 0-52024-217-3.
 * Shaffer, Chris; Bourgo, David; Shaffer, Nicole; Shangle, Joel (2003). The Definitive Guide to the Waterfalls of Southern and Central California. Shafdog Publishers. ISBN 0-97128-142-4.
 * Rubinstein, Paul; Whittlesey, Lee H.; Stevens, Mike (2000). The Guide to Yellowstone Waterfalls and Their Discovery. Big Earth Publishing. ISBN 1-56579-351-X.

Internet
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 * Canadian reservoirs and hydro plants
 * users by number of edits - NOT ACCURATE
 * Missouri River Mainstem System - comprehensive as heck
 * Findlakes info for just about every dam in USA
 * California Reservoirs over 40,000 Acre feet
 * ACME Mapper
 * Central Valley Watershed Profiles
 * DEMIS World Map Server (old one doesn't work anymore, can still be seen here
 * Northwest Waterfall Survey
 * OC Watershed used to work, got to get used to this new weird layout…
 * R-ArcticNET
 * River Discharge Database (mostly US only… grrr
 * Smithsonian online books secret link Try it. Not guaranteed to work
 * Northwest Power & Conservation Council
 * Columbia River History… really awesome. take a look
 * Daily water levels for a few California reservoirs
 * http://pubs.usgs.gov/wri/wri004243/pdf/wri004243.pdf
 * Delta Waterways
 * http://www.rcflood.org/content/history.htm
 * Sacramento River geomorphology
 * Rivers of the United States
 * Environmental Setting of the Yellowstone River Basin, Montana, North Dakota, and Wyoming
 * National Inventory of Dams - this one particularly points to Pine Flat Dam, just change the id...
 * Columbia River Inside Story
 * Central Valley Flood Management Systems - pretty comprehensive file on major reservoirs in the Valley
 * Lake Mead Surface Areas/Elevations/Storage Capacity table
 * The History of Large Federal Dams - USBR
 * The 1976-77 Drought in California – California Department of Water Resources
 * California Water Distribution Systems
 * Map showing Hydro plants in California
 * Natural and Human Factors in Recent Central Valley Floods