Timber harvest, water diversion, shopping center construction -- if an activity in California changes the landscape and requires a permit, then it will likely also require an environmental impact report. Until now, the 2,000 reports written annually at a cost of about $150 million typically have gathered dust in agency archives. A UC Davis team is working with the state to design a searchable database so that within days of being filed with the state, these reports can be found using the Internet. Later this fall, the database will be added to the innovative online land-use planning site known as the Land Use Planning Information Network, http://ceres.ca.gov/planning, launched by the state Resources Agency earlier this month. A collaborative project, the new network aims to provide public planning and regulatory information to local planners, businesses and interested citizens. The site uses special technologies for searching, cross-linking, and creating custom online maps of environmental resources that were developed at the UC Davis Information Center for the Environment, http://ice.ucdavis.edu, by environmental studies professor Jim Quinn and his UC Davis colleagues.