Editing Sacramento River (section)

===Land use===
The Sacramento River watershed is home to about 2.8&nbsp;million people; more than two-thirds live within the [[Sacramento metropolitan area]].<ref name="NAWQA"/> Other important cities are [[Chico, California|Chico]], [[Redding, California|Redding]], [[Davis, California|Davis]] and [[Woodland, California|Woodland]]. The Sacramento River watershed covers all or most of [[Shasta County, California|Shasta]], [[Tehama County, California|Tehama]], [[Glenn County, California|Glenn]], [[Butte County, California|Butte]], [[Plumas County, California|Plumas]], [[Yuba County, California|Yuba]], [[Sutter County, California|Sutter]], [[Lake County, California|Lake]] and [[Yolo County, California|Yolo]] Counties. It also extends into portions of [[Siskiyou County, California|Siskiyou]], [[Modoc County, California|Modoc]], [[Lassen County, California|Lassen]], [[Lake County, Oregon|Lake]] (in Oregon), [[Sierra County, California|Sierra]], [[Nevada County, California|Nevada]], [[Placer County, California|Placer]], [[El Dorado County, California|El Dorado]], [[Sacramento County, California|Sacramento]], [[Solano County, California|Solano]] and [[Contra Costa County, California|Contra Costa]] Counties. The river itself flows through Siskiyou, Shasta, Tehama, Butte, Glenn, Colusa, Sutter, Yolo, Sacramento, Solano and Contra Costa, often forming boundaries between the counties.<ref name="Map"/>

Many of the mountainous regions of the watershed are administered by the [[U.S. Forest Service]]. The Sacramento River watershed includes large areas of coniferous forests in the [[Mendocino National Forest|Mendocino]] and [[Trinity National Forest]]s in the Coast Ranges, [[Shasta National Forest|Shasta]] and [[Lassen National Forest]]s in the southern Cascades and the [[Plumas National Forest|Plumas]], [[Tahoe National Forest|Tahoe]] and [[Eldorado National Forest]]s on the western slopes of the Sierra Nevada. The watershed also has [[Lassen Volcanic National Park]], which covers {{convert|106000|acre|km2}} centered on Lassen Peak, the southernmost Cascade volcano.<ref>{{cite web
 |url          = http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/Volcanoes/Lassen/Locale/framework.html
 |title        = Lassen Peak, California
 |publisher    = U.S. Geologic Survey
 |work         = Cascades Volcano Observatory
 |date         = April 15, 2008
 |access-date  = September 5, 2010
 |url-status   = dead
 |archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20100527135530/http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/Volcanoes/Lassen/Locale/framework.html
 |archive-date = May 27, 2010
}}</ref> [[Whiskeytown-Shasta-Trinity National Recreation Area]], which is over {{convert|200000|acre|km2}} in size, straddles much of the upper Sacramento and [[Trinity River (California)|Trinity]] Rivers, and is named for the three local reservoirs (Shasta Lake, [[Trinity Lake]] and [[Whiskeytown Lake]]) which are popular tourist areas. Many other state parks and recreation areas lie within the watershed.<ref name="ACMEmapper"/>