Physical Geography
University of Texas’s Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection
Features maps (from all over the world) for a multitude of categories. There are plenty of maps for the U.S. and California, including high-resolution, detailed maps of national parks. Many maps can be downloaded as PDF files. I used the University of Texas’s online map collection for some of my research projects in college and learned about it from my Geographic Research and Writing teacher.
Based in northeastern California, the Pit River Watershed Alliance is supported by a grant from the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation. Their site has an abundance of information about the Pit River Watershed. Little Hot Springs Valley is great, but a lot of it is inaccessible due to private land, barbed wire fences, and the valley’s small size. If you want to check out scenery and ecosystems very similar to those in Little Hot Springs Valley, then you should visit the Pit River Watershed, which is near the valley to the north, east, and south. The Pit River Watershed Alliance’s “Interactive Journey” page has some nice multimedia features that let you explore the area via an interactive map that links to various 360° views. The “Background” page has a link to a huge PDF document (over 400 pages): The Upper Pit River Watershed Assessment. This document has regional data about many features, including: geology, grazing, fisheries, and wildlife.