· Africa - Environment/Ecology - links to several sites / topics
· Agroecosystems - WRI's Pilot analysis of global ecosystems
· Aquatic Ecology resource list
· ASSOD - Assessment of the status of human-induced soil degradation in South and Southeast Asia (ASSOD)
· Baileys' Eco-Regions (July 1995) - Description of the Ecoregions of the United States
· BELIZE Programme - Rio Bravo Conservation and Management Area (RBCMA) located in the Orange Walk District of Belize
· Biogeography GLOSSARY
· Biogeography course materials - Radford University--modules from GEOG 235 - Biogeography

· Biomes
· Life Zones
· Zoogeographic Provinces

· Biogeograph Laboratory - UCSB (University of California, Santa Barbara)
· Biogeography of the Global Garden /GEOG 1403 - University of Minnesota / Dwight Brown - see also BioLinks to Models and other resources
· Biogeography of Madagascar (Missouri Botanical Garden)
· Biogeographical Virtual Field Trips:

-Indian Peaks Colorado
-Pt. Reyes, California
-Rainforest Virtual Tour - Tropical Rainforest Information Center - Rainforest Report Card - MSU
-Madagascar - vegetation and biogeography
-Tropical forests - Suriname - see also Japanese site
-Human-Environment Interaction in the Virunga Mts. Rwanda - Wiley Cases

· BIOL 65 Biodiversity & Conservation (Peter Bryant) UC Irvine
· Bureau of Land Management - home and its Environmental Education resources
· Botany/Biosciences - world-wide web virtual library
· California GAP Analysis Project Home Page
· California's Natural Resources - CERES
· CAMESA - Consortium for Advancing the Monitoring of Ecosystem Sustainability in the Americas
· CEC (North American Commission for Environmental Cooperation)
· Center for Conservation Biology: RICE UNIVERSITY
· Center for Ecological Health Research (Information Center for the Environment - ICE)
· Center for Global Change and Earth Observations - Michigan State University
· Center for Plant Conservation - Missouri Botanical Gardens
· Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment (SAGE) of the University of Wisconsin
· CERES: California Environmental Resources Evaluation System
· CEVL - Computational Ecology and Visualization Lab - Michigan State University(Stuart Gage)
· Colorado Plateau Ecosystems - LUHNA Project - Land Use History of North America
· Colorado Plateau Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit (CPCESU)
· Critical Ecoregions Program - Sierra Club US
· Earth Observing System Data Gateway - USGS
· Earthscape - Columbia University - online/global change resources
· EarthWatch International
· Eco-Portal - home
· Ecology Center - Bay Area
· Ecological Design Institute - home
· Ecological Regions of North America - CEC - North American Commission for Environmental Cooperation
· Ecological Society of America - homepage
· Ecoregions Program - US Forest Service - IMI (Inventory and Monitoring Institute)
· Ecoregions - The Ecosystem Geography of the Oceans and Continents - Bailey 1997 - Baileys' Eco-Regions July 1995 (see below) -
· Ecoregions of the US - North america- hierarchical classification by the US Forest Service

· Ecosystem Domains - Continental US

· Ecosystem Divisions - USForest Service and Canada

· Ecosystem Provinces - Continental US

· Terrestrial Ecozones of Canada - homepage (EMAN - Ecological Monitoring and Assessment Network) see alsoEcological Regions of North America - CEC (North American Commission for Environmental Cooperation)

· EDRA - Environmental Design Research Association
· Endangered Ecosystems Program - from EarthWatch International
· Environmental Grantmaking Foundations - Great Lakes Directory
· Environmental News Index - GAIA Books
· EOS (Earth Observing System)
· EPA - Geospatial Data Clearinghouse - National Environmental GIS homepage
· FED - Forest Ecosystem Dynamics Project
· Fish and Wildlife Service - US
· Fire Ecology - Landscape Dynamics of Yellowstone National Park: The Role of Fire 1690 to 1990 - NCSA
· Fire Ecology - Simulating Fire Patterns in Heterogeneous Landscapes
· FireNet - International Fire Information Network
· FEIS - Fire Effects Information System - USDA plant lists, Kuchler potential vegetation
· Gap Analysis Home Page - Geographic Approach to Planning for Biodiversity
· Gender Concerns in Mountain Areas with Special Reference to the Hindu Kush-Himalayas -
· Geographical Analysis of Environmental Systems and Global Change - Geography 5565 - Dwight Brown, University of Minnesota
· Geographic Information Systems in Sustainable Development - FAO/SD
· Global Assessment of the Status of Human-induced Soil Degradation (GLASOD) - ISRIC - International Soil Reference Information Center
· Global Information and Early Warning System on Food and Agriculture (GIEWS)
· Global Zoo directory by the CBSG - Conservation Breeding Specialist Group
· Goddard Space Flight Center - home - Earth Science Enterprise
· Hydroecology and Fish Biology - New York Fish & Wildlife Unit
· IAL - International Association of Limnogeology
· IALE - International Association for Landscape Ecology - home
· IASC - International Association for the Study of Common Property
· ICASA - International Consortium for Agricultural Systems Applications
· ICIMOD - International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development - home
· IDGEC - Institutional Dimensions of Global Environmental Change
· Industrial Ecology - Rockefeller University
· International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme - home
· International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change
· IMI (Inventory and Monitoring Institute)
· ISRIC - International Soil Reference Information Center
· JERS-1 Global Rainforest Mapping (GRFM) Project - Amazon
· Journey North Home Page - Journey North Engaging Students in a Global Study of Wildlife Migration
· KIMS - Key Indicator Mapping System - FAO/FIVIMS
· Kuchler potential natural vegetation, etc
· Land and Water Development issues - FAO/AGL
· Land Use / Cover Change (LUCC) - AAG module
· Landscape Ecology and Modeling Laboratory - Arizona State University
· Landscape Ecology Laboratory -Duke University
· Landscape Ecology Lab - Carleton University
· LRC (Limnological Research Center)- University of Minnesota
· LTER Network - Long Term Ecological Research Network
· LUHNA Project - Land Use History of North America
· Living in the Biosphere: Production, Pattern, Population and Diversity - AAG
· MESC - Midcontinent Ecology Science Center
· Millenium Project and Development Goals - United Nations
· Missouri Botanical Garden's - VAST (VAScular Tropicos) nomenclatural database - W3 TROPICOS - Missouri Botanical Garden - links to
tropical databases
· Monica Turner's Landscape Ecology Lab - University of Wisconsin
· Mountain Forum - mountain regions/ecosystems
· MyCOE (My Communty, Our Earth, Global Learning for Sustainable Development)
· National Geographic OnlineMapping of Terrestrial Ecoregions of the World - Wild World
· Native Use of Fire on the Colorado Plateau - LUHNA Project
· NBII - national Biological Information Infrastructure - USGS - NBII - Publications
· NRCS -Natural Resources Conservation Service - NRI -Natural Resources Inventory
· NPSC -- Northern Prairie Science Center - Biological Resources
· National Gap Analysis Program - home
· Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory - Colorado State University
· PCEI - Palouse Clearwater Environmental Institute - Palouse Country, Moscow, Idaho
· PLEC - People, Land Management, and Ecosystem Conservation - UNU Project on People Land Management and Ecosystem Conservation (PLEC)
· Political Ecology, Mountain Agriculture, and Knowledge in Honduras - book
· Rainforest Alliance - home
· Register of Ecological Models (REM) - home
· RIOD - Réseau International d'ONG sur la Désertification / The International NGO Network on Desertification and Drought
· Shortgrass Steppe LTER - Kansas
· SIDS - Small Island Developing States Network - Biodiversity cases
· Simulating Fire Patterns in Heterogeneous Landscapes - Yellowstone 1988
· SISEI - Information and Monitoring Systems for the Environment on the Internet or Systemes d'Information et de Suivi de l"Environnement sur l"Internet
· Spatial Analysis and Landscape Ecology Lab Center for Environmental Science , Huxley College of Environmental Studies, Western Washington University, Bellingham
· Stockholm Environment Institute - Sweden
· Studies in Landscape Architecture - from Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection
· Sustainability Systems Program - Harvard University
· Terrain - A Journal of the Built & Natural Environments
· Terrain Magazine - from the Ecology Center
· Terrestrial Ecozones of Canada - homepage EMAN - Ecological Monitoring and Assessment Network) - see alsoEcological Regions of North America - CEC (North American Commission for Environmental Cooperation)
· UCMP - University of CaliforniaMuseum of Paleontology - GLOSSARIES for natural sciences
· UCSB Biogeography Lab - University California Santa Barbara
· UMESC - Upper Midwest Ecological Research Center
· UNEP-DEWA - Division of Early Warning and Assessment, United Nations Environment Program
· US Forest Service - VegTools site - Social ecology applications in forestry
· UNESCO - MAB - Man and the Biosphere program - home
· USEPA,GREEN ACRES: Green Landscaping with Native Plants
· U. S. Long-Term Ecological Research Network
· USGS - National Mapping Program
· Virtual Library of Ecology and Biodiversity The Virtual Library of Ecology and Biodiversity division of The Virtual Library Project specializes in reviewing internet information sources pertaining to ecology and biodiversity based on their educational value. If there are any further inquiries about the Virtual Library please contact us
· Winrock International - Ecosystem Services
· World Bank - Infrastructure and Environment
· World Conservation Monitoring Centre - WCMC/UNEP
· WWW-Server for Ecological Modelling
· WWWVL - Agriculture including soil - Earth Science - VLIB
· WWWVL - Sustainable development library - home
· Yahoo: ecology sites

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Fauna: Wildlife and Endangered Species

· Audubon - home
· Biological Control in North America - Cornell University
· Birding on the Web page
· Bodega Marine Laboratory - shorebirds
· CBSG - Conservation Breeding Specialist Group
· CONSEQUENCES Vol.2 No. 2 - "Impacts of Introduced Species in the United States"
· Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund - home
· Earth Satellite Tracking of Endangered Birds project
· EarthWatch International
· Endangered and extinct species - US Fish and Wildlife Service - Region 3
· Fish and Wildlife Service - US
· FrogWatch - all about frogs, educational links, etc
· Gap Analysis Home Page - Geographic Approach to Planning for Biodiversity
· Global Zoo directory by the CBSG (Conservation Breeding Specialist Group)
· Great Salt Lake Ecoregion - Virtual Fieldtrip (Ford)
· Gypsy Moth Server at Virginia Tech - home
· Hawaii's Extinct Species page
· Journey North - International Wildlife Migration of Whooping Crane
· International Crane Federation - Wisconsin
· International Shorebird Gallery - index
· International Species Information System
· LBL ITG - Whole Frog Project
· Long Range Movement of Organisms - CEVL - Computational Ecology and Visualization Lab - MSU - home
· Minnesota Ornithologists' Union - home
· Mountain Gorilla Project - Rutgers University / Center for Remote Sensing and Spatial Analysis / Cook College, Env Sciences Dept
· National Wildlife Federation - home
· National Wildlife Health Center - USGS
· National Wildlife Refuge System - article by National Geographic online
· National Wildlife Refuge System - home
· NatureServe - home
· NBII - National Biological Information Infrastructure - USGS - NBII - Publications
· Northern Prairie - wildlife, plant biodiversity and other resources - USGS
· Office of Migratory Bird Management - USFWS
· Rainforest Alliance - home
· Ranges of North American Breeding Birds
· Satellite tracking of endangered species - NASA
· Slow-the-Spread of the Gypsy Moth Pilot Project - CEVL - Computational Ecology and Visualization Lab - MSU - home
· Stripped Bass Migration - Rutgers University
· Western Atlantic Shorebird Association - home
· World Conservation Monitoring Centre - Europe
· WORLD WILDLIFE FUND - PANDA - NATURE
· Yahoo: ecology sites

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Flora: Vegetation / Plant

· Alternative agriculture sites: John Jeavons (Ecology Action), Alan York (Biodynamic Agriculture), Wes Jackson (The Land Institute) and other resources
· American Association of Botanical Gardens & Arboreta - home
· Arizona Native Plant Society - home
· ATLAS OF PALAEOVEGETATION (Global atlas) - Since the Last Glacial Maxima
· Australian Biodiversity - ERIN page
· Biology Browser - resources
· BIOME-AgriFOR - UK major resources!
· Boreal Forest Watch - home - environmental monitoring educational outreach program for Canadian high school teachers and their students
· Botany/Biosciences - world-wide web virtual library
· Botany - Internet Directory - Canada
· Center for Aquatic and Invasive Plants - University of Florida
· Center for Plant Conservation - Missouri Botanical Gardens
· Coastal Marsh Project - Univ of Maryland
· CSIRO - Tropical Forest Research Centre - home
· EarthSource Forest Products - home
· Economic Botany resources - Ethnobotany - Royal Botanic Gardens
· Ecosystems - Costa Rica - Holdridge System
· EarthWatch International
· ETFRN - European Tropical Forestry Network
· Ethnobotanical Leaflets - home
· Explore the Fantastic Forest - National Geographic Society
· FED - Forest Ecosystem Dynamics Project - FED-diagram - Climate / Forest Ecosystem Diagram
· Fish and Wildlife Service - US
· Flora Mesoamericana database - MOBOT
· FEIS - Fire Effects Information System - USDA plant lists, Kuchler potential natural vegetation, etc.
· Flora By Park - Midwestern National Park Plant Checklists
· Forest Certification Resource Center - home
· ForestView - Minnesota Department of Natural Resources
· Forest History Society - bibliography - Duke University
· Forestry Advisers Network (CFAN) of the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA)
· Forests For Life - World Wildlife Fund
· Global Forest Watch - WRI
· Global Leaf Collection - Online Botany Project
· Gramene - grasses database
· Great Salt Lake Ecoregion - Virtual Fieldtrip (Ford)
· Hawaii's Extinct Species page
· Impacts of Introduced Species in the United States - Daniel Simberloff
· IUCN Red List of Threatened Plants - home
· Kew Royal Botanic Gardens - UK
· Kuchler potential natural vegetation, etc.
· Latin American Plant Gallery - MOBOT (Missouri Botanical Garden)
· Limnological Research Center - University of Minnesota
· Midwestern Wetlands Flora -guide
· Missouri Botanical Garden - home
· NASA - Pathfinder Projects - Humid Tropical Forest Project - Rainforest Report card
· NativeTech - home
· NativeWeb - Indigenous Plants and Native Uses (Northeast US)
· National Wilflower Research Center - Lady Bird Johnson Center
· Native Plant Conservation Initiative - University Northern Arizona/NPS - National Park Service
· NATIVE PLANT CONSERVATION COMMITTEE MEMBERS AND COOPERATORS - home
· NatureServe - home
· NeoFlora - The World's Largest Plant Database!- home
· Northern Prairie - wildlife, plant biodiversity and other resources - USGS
· NPLICHEN: A NATIONAL PARK SERVICE LICHEN DATABASE
· Patuca - Homepage - Friends of the Cultures and Environment of the Rainforest/Honduras
· Phenology weblinks - home
· Plant Amnesty - home
· Plant Map - clickable - Costa Rica
· Plantsgalore.com - home
· Plant Identification guide - online
· Prairie Species Table - Kenneth Robertson - Native Prairie Plants for Use Along Roadsides in Illinois
· Rainforest Action Network Home Page
· Rainforest Alliance - home
· Rainforest Virtual Tour - Tropical Rainforest Information Center - Rainforest Report Card - MSU
· Save Florida's Native Bromeliads - home
· Scott's Botanical Links--many resources!!
· Shortgrass Steppe LTER - Colorado State University
· Forests the Future - Toward a CarbonNetural World (Carbon Calculator) - home
· USEPA,GREEN ACRES: Green Landscaping with Native Plants
· US Forest Service - home
· USGS Spectroscopy Lab: Vegetation Species Mapping
· W3 TROPICOS - Missouri Botanical Garden - links to tropical databases
· WICPSU Search Tool - WAIS Flora and Lichen Databases containing flora and lichen information
· World-Wide Web Virtual Library: Forestry
· Yahoo: forestry sites

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Ecotourism / Environmental Journalism - Virtual Field Trips

See also VGD - Virtual Field Trips

· Adventure online - teacher resources
· Antarctica Live - NASA
· Adventure Travel Business, Inc. - home
· Adventure Travel.com - home
· APROECOH - Honduras Ecotourism Association - home - Planeta.com - home
· BETA - Belize Eco-Tourism Association - home
· Big Bend National Park , Texas
· Big Volcano Ecotourism Resource Centre - home
· Bosnian Virtual Fieldtrip - virtual trip
· Boulder Creek, Colorado - University of Colorado
· Canada's Virtual North - home
· Certification for Sustainable Tourism - Costa Rica
· Colorado Plateau Ecosystems - LUHNA Project - Land Use History of North America
· Communications for a Sustainable Future - Colorado State Univ (electronic discussions, etc.)
· Deep Lock Quarry , Ohio
· Discovery Channel - many sites and particularly Travel Channel
· EarthScan - home
· Eco-Portal - home
· Ecotourism - Conservation International - home
· Eco Travels in Central America - PLANETA website - many resources
· Ecotourism: an Overview - Can Ecotourism save the Rainforests?- RAN - Rainforest Action Network
· Ecotourism Society - home
· Ecotourism Success Stories - SIDS - Small Island Developing States Network
· Evolution of the Conservation Movement - 1850 - 1920- Library of Congress
· Environmental History of Latin America - home
· Environmental Sites on the Internet - Royal Institute of Technology - Stockholm, Sweden.
· Fodors's Travel online - home
· Geography of Sustainable Tourism - Study Group - International Geographical Union
· Geologists Lifetime List of Field sites
· Geology Field Trips site - Virtual Geosciences Professor - University of Houston
· Glacier National Park - Lempke - University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point
· Global Online Adventure Learning Home Page
· GORP- Great Outdoor Recreation Pages - Books & Media
· Great Salt Lake Ecoregion - Virtual Fieldtrip (Ford)
· Hawaii Ecotourism Association - home
· Honduras- article - Planeta.com
· Human-Environment Interaction in the Virunga Mts. Rwanda - Wiley Cases
· ICIMOD - International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development - home
· International Ecotourism Society - home
· INFOHUB - Virtual Traveller
· IITS - International Institute of Tourism Studies - George Washington University, School of Business & Public Management, Department of Tourism & Hospitality Management - home
· Journey North Home Page
· Jurassic Reef Park, english
· Key Figures in Environmental History and Ethics
· Kashong Glen - virtual tour
· Landscape and Life along the East African Rift: the Virunga Mountains, Rwanda
· Leisure Planet.com - home
· Lonely Planet Destinations - home
· Maltese Islands - Environmental Themes
· Muskegon River Watershed - CEVL - Michigan State University
· Mountain Forum - mountain regions/ecosystems
· Mountain Tourism, and the Conservation of Biological and Cultural Diversity - Practices for Linking Conservation with Enterprise - electronic
forum materials from the Mountain Forum - mountain regions/ecosystems (search in virtual library)
· Moon - Travel Handbooks - publisher
· Mt. St. Helens Blast Zone Recovery - case study
· Planeta.com - home
· Rainforest Action Network - homepage
· Rainforest Virtual Tour - Tropical Rainforest Information Center - Rainforest Report Card - MSU
· RAISE - Rural and Agricultural Incomes with a Sustainable Environment - USAID
· Red Mexicana de Ecoturismo (Mexico Ecotourism Network) - home
· REI Adventures - Recreational Equipment Inc. - Travel resources
· Robert Ford's Virtual Trips - Virunga Mts, Great Salt Lake, etc...
· Rural Tourism Fair - Planeta.com
· Save Our Canyons - Wasatch Mts.-Utah
· Savvy Traveler Web Site - home
· SIDS - Small Island Developing States Network
· South Carolina's Coast: A Remote Sensing Perspective - NOAA
· StartingPoints for Exploration - Galileo Project is a "memory palace" of Galileo's life and work
· Study/Work Abroad Resources
· Sustainable Sources - Greenbuilder.com - Sustainable Sources: Articles
· Sustainable Tourism - Costa Rica
· SUSTAINING RURAL ENVIRONMENTS - NAU/Arizona
· Tourism and Coastal Degradation in the Wider Caribbean - Island Resources Foundation
· Tourism Geographies Homepage and Journal
· Tourism, Growth and Development: Which Training? For What Purpose? - World Bank Forum
· Tourism Raised Problems in Masai Mara National Park Narok, Kenya - Mountain Forum
· Travel Clothing by Half Moon - home
· Travel Guides for Photographers - home
· Travelocity.com - home
· Virtually Hawaii: Virtual Field Trips
· VIRTUAL TOUR OF IRELAND - home
· Virtual tour of the South Pole - virtual tour
· Walkabout Travel Gear (tm) -- AAA Source of Travel Gear
· Whitewater Rafting Adventure Travel from O.A.R.S. - Outdoor Adventure River Specialists.
· Wild Things Photography - Salt Lake
· WebDogs - Virtual Field Trips - University of Kentucky
· WILD - electronic magazine from South Africa
· WTO - World Tourism Organization - home

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Grasslands: Prairies and Steppes

Note: see also Great Plains - North America - Regional Ecosystem Dynamics

· At Home in the Heartland Online Home - Illinois Science Museum
· ATTWATER'S PRAIRIE CHICKENS - endangered because the tallgrass prairie has been plowed for farmland and covered by cities.
· Big Eastern: The Edge of the Prairie ; Links ... restorationists may be interested in their Savanna Restoration Bibliography which is an organization dedicated to prairie preservation in east central Illinois
· Bureau of Land Management - home and its Environmental Education resources
· Center for Grassland Studies, University of Nebraska
· Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska - websites list relevant to prairies
· Center for Rural Affairs site
· Colorado Plateau Ecosystems - LUHNA Project - Land Use History of North America
· Drylands Program - IIED - International Institute of Environment and Development - London
· Edge of the Prairie - sand prairies and oak savanas of the Chicago region
·    Event-based Science Module – Fire – Maryland Public Schools
· Fermilab - Restoration of prairie and buffalo
· Grand Prairie Friends - organization (Illinois)
· Great Plains.org - home
· Great North American Prairie Ecoregion - Critical Ecoregions Program - Sierra Club USA
· Great Salt Lake Ecoregion - Virtual Fieldtrip (Ford)
· Homestead Nat'l Monument - National Park Service
· Homestead Nat'l Monument - Gage County, Nebraska resources
· Impacts of Livestock Grazing in Himalayan and Tibetan Plateau Rangelands - Mountain Forum
· Iowa Prairie - resources and network
· Konza Prairie LTER – Kansas State University
· Kuchler Potential Natural Vegetation Classification System
· Land and Life on the North American Prairie- Robert Ford (Wiley)
· Land Institute - Wes Jackson - sustainable agriculture on the grasslands
· Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture - Iowa State University
· LUHNA Project - Land Use History of North America
· Marion Campus Prairie Reconstruction - Ohio State University
· Midwin National Tallgrass Prairie - homepage
· Mountain Grasslands of the Colorado Plateau - LUHNA Project
· Native Plants resources - Grand Prairie Friends - extensive lists
· Nearctica - Ecology - Biogeograpy - Biomes, Ecoregions, and ... The Tallgrass Prairie of Illinois - a prairie wildflower reference guide, an extensive bibliography , a newsletter on problems and solutions ...
·    Nebraska wildlife species on prairies
· National Resource Inventory – Great Plains.org - home
· Nematodes of the Northern Great Plains
· Northern Prairie & Plains Region - Sierra Club
· Northern Prairie - wildlife, plant biodiversity and other resources - USGS
· Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center - NBS - Jamestown, ND
· NRCS -Natural Resources Conservation Service
· Palouse Region grasslands - LUHNA Project - Land Use History of North America
· PCEI - Palouse Clearwater Environmental Institute - Palouse Country, Moscow, Idaho
· Plains Folk - homepage
· Plains Links - Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska
·    Plant Communities of Missouri’s prairies - DNR
· Planting a Prairie - Restoration process
· Prairie Enthusiasts - West Central Wisconsin
· Prairie Plants in Illinois - Kenneth Robertson
· Prairie Mailing List and electronic discussion groups
· Prairienet - homepage - many links
· Prairie Pen - book reviews
· Prairie Restoration - Ledermann Science Education Center - Teacher outreach - Fermi Lab
· Prairie Species Table and Images - Kenneth Robertson
· Prairie Studies -- WWW sites of relevance - The Tallgrass Prairie in Illinois Savanna Restoration Bibliography ....
· Restoration & Reclamation Review (online journal) - University of Minnesota College of Natural Resources
· Shortgrass Steppe LTER - Colorado State University
· Smith Cemetery State Preserve - Darby Plains, Ohio
· Tallgrass Prairie in Illinois - excellent module by Kent Robertson, Illinois Natural Survey
· Tallgrass Prairie - National Park Service
· Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve - ZBar/Spring Hill Ranch, Flint Hills, Kansas (National Trust)
· Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve - Flint Hills, Kansas (National Park Service site)
· Tallgrass Prairie Preserve – The Nature Conservancy - Osage County, Oklahoma
· Tatanka Project (Buffalo Nation) Sierra Club - Reintroduction of Buffalo - Northern Plains

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Soils & Pedology (see also GEOSPHERE)

· AFRICAN SAHEL 25 YEARS AFTER THE GREAT DROUGHT - Simon Batterbury
· America's Private Land: A Geography of Hope - article from NRI / Summary of 1992 Land Inventory
· Conservation Districts on the Web - Soil Conservation
· EarthShots: satellite images of environmental change - USGS (see Garden City, Kansas)
· Ecological Monitoring and Assessment Network - Environment Canada
·Global Assessment of the Status of Human-induced Soil Degradation (GLASOD) - ISRIC - International Soil Reference Information Center
· GLOBAL SOILS INTERPRETATION - CERL Global Research Interpretation - includes
· Global Soils Map
·ISRIC - International Soil Reference Information Center
· Keys to the US Soil Taxonomy - NRCS
· Land and Water Development - FAO/AGL
· Mapping Regional Crop Production, Soils and Climate - MSU
· Mountain Forum - mountain regions/ecosystems
· NASIS – National Soil Information system – USDA - NRCS
· NRCS -Natural Resources Conservation Service
· National Resource Inventory – Great Plains.org
· NSCSS - Soil Links - National Society of Consulting Soil Scientists, Inc.
· On Becoming Lovers of the Soil - Article
· PATHFINDER GLOBAL SOILS RESEARCH - CECER
· PRODUCTIVITY OF AGRICULTURAL SOILS - EMAN - Ecological Monitoring and Assessment Program - Canada
· Restoration & Reclamation Review (online journal) - University of Minnesota College of Natural Resources
· RIOD - Réseau International d'ONG sur la Désertification / The International NGO Network on Desertification and Drought
· SERG - Soil Ecology Restoration Group
· Soil Science Society of America (SSSA). The SSSA is the professional home for over 6,000 professionals throughout the world dedicated to the advancement of soil science.
· Soil Facts - North Carolina State University, Dept of Soil Science
· Soil and Water Conservation Society of America
· Soil water conservation and the Farm Bill- CRA (Congressional Research Service)
· Soils 101 - Introduction to Soils – Penn State University
· Soil Glossary - Forest Soils page
· Soil-Water Relationships: Basics of Soil-Water Relationships – University of Florida
· State of the Land - NCRS - info on US Land situation, maps, data
· Sustaining the Soil - Indigenous Soil and Water Conservation in Africa - from EarthScan
· World Soils Resources - NRCS
· World Reference Base for Soil Resources - FAO and World Soil Resources Map
· World-Wide Web Virtual Library: Forestry: Soils and Substrates
· WWWVL - Agriculture including soil - Earth Science - VLIB
· WWWVL - Sustainable development library - home

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Land Use / Land Cover Change

See also: the EES (Earth's Environment and Society) working group of the VGD (Virtual Geography Department) and Introduction to the Human Dimensions of Global Change (Turner et al) Human Impacts on LULC (Land Use / Land Cover Change) List of Resources and specific Data resources and Agriculture also Corn Belt/Prairies/Mid-Continent - Biogeography - BIOL 549 Resources-by-theme: Biodiversity Conservation and Sustainability Science

· Agroecosystems - WRI's Pilot analysis of global ecosystems
· American Land Conservancy - home
· Becoming Native to this Place - review of book by Wes Jackson /Land Institute (see also article-High Country News about West Jackson)
· Bureau of Land Management - home and its Environmental Education resources
· Conservation Districts on the Web - Soil Conservation
· EarthShots: satellite images of environmental change - USGS (see Garden City, Kansas)
· EOS (Earth Observing System)
· FAO - Virtual Library - Agriculture...
· FAO - WAICENT Information Finder
· GEO-2000/UNEP - Global Environmental Outlook - home
· Geographic Information Systems in Sustainable Development - FAO/SD
· Global Soil Assessments - ISRIC - International Soil Reference Information Center
· Global Information and Early Warning System on Food and Agriculture (GIEWS)
· Global Land Biosphere Data And Resources - Goddard DAAC
· Global Land Cover Characterization - USGS
· Global Land Cover Facility - University of Maryland - free LANDSAT data
· Global Land data resources - EDC-USGS
· Great Salt Lake Ecoregion - Virtual Fieldtrip (Ford)
· IALC - International Arid Lands Consortium - home
· Land Use and Environmental Change in Thompson-Okanagan - Canada
· Land and Water Development issues - FAO/AGL
· Land Institute - Wes Jackson - sustainable agriculture on the grasslands
· Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture - Iowa State University
· LUHNA Project - Land Use History of North America
· LUCC Project - international land use/land cover change research project
· Land Use Land Cover Change (LULC) - AAG Modules on HDGC
· Mapping Regional Crop Production, Soils and Climate - MSU
· Michigan Landstrusts - many examples
· National Resources Inventory - NRCS-USDA
· National Wetlands Inventory - home
· NRI - National Resource Inventory - Land Trends in the US
· NRCS -Natural Resources Conservation Service
· Pathfinder Program WWW sites USGCRP
· Prototype Land Transformation and Ecological Succession Model to Examine ... submitted to CIESIN as part of Task 4.7-1 mid-term project report. ... PDF
· State of the Land - NCRS "America's Private Land: a Geography of Hope?
· The Unsettling of America-Culture and Agriculture - book review of book by Wendell Berry - ECOBOOKS
· ULI - The Urban Land Institute - real estate / redevelopment
· UNEP/GRIDA - United Nations Environment Programme, Global Resource Information Database - Arendal, Norway
· UNEP/GRID - Global Data Sets / Maps etc and links to related GRID sites
· WRI - World Resources Institute - home
· WWWVL - Agriculture including soil - Earth Science - VLIB
· WWWVL - Sustainable development library - home

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Sustainable Rural Development and (PRA) Participatory Rural Appraisal

· Alliance for Global Sustainability - University of Tokyo - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
· Big Volcano Ecotourism Resource Centre - home
· Calvert Group - socially-responsible investing
· CASL (Community Adaptation and Sustainable Livelihoods)
· CBNRM Net - Community-based Natural Resource Management Network
· Center for a New American Dream - home
· Center for Civil Society - Rural and Farm-Related organizations
· Center for Civil Society Studies- Johns Hopkins University
· Center for Rural Affairs - home
· Center for the Support of Native Lands - see special resources on "Indigenous Peoples and Natural Ecosystems in Central America"
· Center for Indigenous Knowledge for Agriculture and Rural Development - CIKARD
· Civil Society International - home
· Clark University - Environment and Society Concentration and International Development, Community Planning, and Environment (IDCE)
· Communications for a Sustainable Future - Colorado State Univ (electronic discussions, etc.)
· Community-Based Environmental Protection (CBEP) - EPA
· CoopAmerica - home
· Development Gateway - facts, figures, resources on poverty and development
· EDRA</