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- HOME — with slide show of historic and contemporary images from the French Broad River watershed
- About This Site
- Website Survey — Win a prize by telling us about your interests, which will help us in making this website more useful to you
- Contacts — contact information for the organizations and individuals who brought you this website
- Contribute — your observations, pictures, event information, site feedback, etc.
- Help — on how to use this website
(also look for instructions included on many pages that include special interactive features)
- MAP VIEWERS
- Mississippi Basin — from the Gulf of Mexico to the French Broad
(animated site entry map)
- Basic Map — Overview of the French Broad River Watershed
(includes photographs)
- Intermediate Maps — Recreation, Monitoring, Development, and Public Health information at a glance
- Advanced Map — Create your own map from more than 80 thematic layers
- LEARNING CENTER
- Introduction — an introduction to the French Broad River
(maps, photographs, and text describing the 7 major segments of the river from its Transsylvania county headwaters to Knoxville)
- The Watershed — Visualizing the French Broad River
(provides a basic mapviewer with many hotspots to call up photographs, information about parks, hazardous waste sites, and water quality in steams monitored by citizen volunteers.
If you have a small computer screen, you may prefer the Basic mapviewer listed in the "Map Viewers" section above, which is identical but uses a smaller window.)
- Timeline — A look into the past
(recalls the story of the watershed from AD 500 to 1989. Includes historic photographs and little known but very interesting or fun facts)
- Bibliography — lists literature used in creating this website
- Public Health — documents and information on water-related health issues
(information sources for elected officials, health-care professionals, and citizens concerned about their and their loved-one's health)
- Educational Resources — for teachers and everyone who wants to learn more about water and water resources
(includes documents, lesson plans, web links, information about nature centers and other educational institutions, cooperative programs, etc.)
- Technical Information — agency contacts, scientific articles, factsheets, datasets, etc.
- REFERENCE INFORMATION
- Glossary — of water-related scientific and technical terms
(defines important concepts and explains the jargon used by biologists, engineers, and other professionals who work on water-related issues)
- Spatial Features — explains classes of important spatial information
(on current and planned future map layers of our Advanced maps, in the French Broad Watershed Atlas)
- Metadata — for most of our present map layers
- Links — hyperlinks to particularly useful and interesting websites
- Public Health — documents and information on water-related health issues
(information sources for elected officials, health-care professionals, and citizens concerned about their and their loved-one's health)
- Educational Resources — for teachers and everyone who wants to learn more about water and water resources
(includes documents, lesson plans, web links, information about nature centers and other educational institutions, cooperative programs, etc.)
- Technical Information — agency contacts, scientific articles, factsheets, datasets, etc.
- About This Site
- Contacts — contact information for the organizations and individuals who brought you this website
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