Over the past four years, the Trinity County RCD has overseen the centralization, updating and dissemination of available data from the various agencies involved in the Trinity River Restoration Program (TRRP). This involves intensive data management and integration of baseline and trend monitoring data, photographs, and other information with a user-friendly interface on CD. This project provides for comparisons over time of habitat conditions, fish populations, and water quality and provides a working tool for adaptive management for the TRRP.

The newest version of KRIS will span three CDs and include recent data, expanded bibliographic content, and major enhancements to the interface. One such enhancement is an integrated map tab/GIS viewer that provides access and comparison of actual GIS layers of the basin like streams, roads, ownership, landuse, and vegetation that are included on the disks. These spatial datasets can also be used in any standard GIS software package, such as ArcView or AutoCAD Map. KRIS Version 3 will be available and freely distributed in early March. For the current online version, click Here.