North American Midcontinent - General:

 
• 1993 Floods on the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers - Wiley Casebook, W.S. White
• 16th North American Prairie Conference - proceedings, University of Nebraska - Kearney. July 1998
• Biodiversity and Land-use History of the Palouse Bioregion: Pre-European to Present  - LUHNA Project - Land Use History of North America
• Biological Control in North America - Cornell University
• Bureau of Land Management, Environmental Education homepage
• Center for Appalachian Studies - Appalachian State University - Boone, North Carolina
• Center for Grassland Studies, University of Nebraska
• Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska--Lincoln - extensive resource list - Plains Links
• Center for Restoration Ecology - University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Changing Patterns in the Number of Species in North American Floras - LUHNA Project - Land Use History of North America
• CIESIN/EPA Information System gateway - home
• Critical Ecoregions Program - Sierra Club US
• Ecological Society of America - homepage
• Ecological Subregions of the US - by the US Forest Service ECOMAP Team.
• Ecosystem Domains - Continental US (USFS  classification)
• Ecosystem Divisions - continental US (USFS  classification)
• Ecosystem Provinces - Continental US (USFS  classification)
• Ecozones of Canada - Terrestrial Ecozones of Canada - homepage
• Endangered and extinct species lists by region (USA)
• Environmental Contaminants Program - US Fish and Wildlife Service
• Enviro$ense - EPA - one-stop site for all pollution and economics issues/data
• EPA Region 6 - home (Texas, New Mexico....)
• EPA Region 9 - home Arizona/California
• Exploring Ecotourism in the America's - Planeta - home
• GAIN Directories of Environmental Organizations - EE Link
• Fire and the Prairie module
• Fire Ecology - Simulating Fire Patterns in Heterogeneous Landscapes
• Fire's Role in Prairie Survival - article on Konza Prairie research - Environmental News Network, May 1998.
• GAP Analysis - Upper Midwest  Home Page
• Grazing Fees and Rangeland Management - Congressional Research Service Report
• Great Lakes/Manufacturing Belt of Ohio - GCLP Project - AAG
• Great North American Prairie Ecoregion - Sierra Club
• Great Plains Alkali Wetlands vs Great Lakes - wetlands article - University of Missouri/Columbia
• Great Plains Film Festival - Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska--Lincoln
• Great Plains Quarterly - Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska--Lincoln
• Green Landscaping with Native Wildflowers and Grasses - EPA.
• Ground Water in the Northern High Plains
• HazDat - CDC/ATSDR's - Agency for Toxic Substances and Diseases Registry
• Highlands/Ogallala area of Kansas - GCLP Project/AAG
• High Plains Aquifer - home
• High Plains Climate Center - home (University of Nebraska-Lincoln).
• Historical Landcover Changes in the Great Lakes Region - LUHNA Project
• Historical Interrelationships Between Population Settlement  and Farmland in the Conterminous United States, 1790 to  1992 - LUHNA Project
• How to Protect our Imperiled Pollinators - article by NWF - National Wildlife Federation
• Images Illustrating Environmental Subjects - California and the West
• Impact of Urban Sprawl on Soil Resources in the United States Using Nighttime "City Lights" Satellite Images and Digital Soils Maps
• Integrated Population, Land Use and Emissions Data Project - CIESIN
• Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center - Austin, Texas
• Land and Life on the North American Prairie, by Robert E. Ford - Wiley Online Casebook
• Latin America - Mexico Resources lists
• LL Bean Outdoors Online Guide
• LUHNA Project - Land Use History of North America
• Meadows & Prairies Forum - GardenWeb
• Medicinal Plants of the Prairie - Texas A & M Univ
• MESC - Midcontinent Ecological Science Center Home Page
• Midwestern Climate Center - hydrologic data on Upper Mississippi / Missouri Basin
• Midwestern Wetlands Flora -guide
• Mountain-Prairie area - US Fish & Wildlife Service - Region 6
• NAID - North American Integration and Development Center - home
• NAMI - North American Institute - home
• National Drought Mitigation Center - UNL
• National Heritage Network - home
• National Library for the Environment - NIE
• National Resources Inventory - USDA
• Native Cultures of the Americas - Virtual Tour/Smithsonian Institution
• Native Plants Resources from Grand Prairie Friends - extensive lists
• Neal Smith National Wildlife Refuge Prairie Learning Center - Jasper County, Iowa
• Nematodes of the Northern Great Plains
• NIGEC - Great Plains Regional Center - UNL
• North American Development Bank  - home
• North American Skies - astronomy
• Northern Plains Ecoregion, Sierra Club
• Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center - NBS - Jamestown, ND
• NPSC -- Northern Prairie Science Center - Biological Resources
• NRI - National Resource Inventory - Land Trends in the US
• Ogallala Aquifer - Middle School Student Paper
• OPERATION MIGRATION - saving Whooping Cranes etc.
• Pastures of Prairie Keep Cattle in Fine Fettle, article from Missouri Department of Conservation
• Patuxent's Crane Information - FWS
• People and Climate Change on the Great Plains - teachers materials
• Petroleum Geology - Wiley Casebook, R. Moye and S. Zicus
• Plains Indians Cultures - National Museum of Natural History/Smithsonian  Institution
• Plant America - comprehensive site on all things plants!
• Plant Species on the prairies
• Planting a Prairie - Restoration process
• Prairie Enthusiasts of West Central Wisconsin and its LINKS! - excellent resources!
• Prairie Restoration and Resource Guide - University of Texas, Geographer's Craft Project
• Prairie Species Table - Kenneth Robertson
• Prairie Wetlands Ecology Team - University of Manitoba
• Prescribed Burning Guidelines in the Northern Great Plains - USGS
• Presettlement and Contemporary Vegetation Patterns Along Two Navigation Reaches of the Upper Mississippi River - LUHNA Project - Land Use History of North America
• Ranges of North American Breeding Birds
• Restoration and Reclamation Review - University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota (USA)
• Restoration Ecology- Iowa State University course - Dr. Rolf Koford - see also Selected References
• Restoring Nature - University of Wisconsin-Madison - interdisciplinary graduate seminar - Nancy Langston
• Rocky Mountain Environmental Directory - home
• Savanna Restoration Bibliography - USGS
• Science II Prairie restoration site - Iowa State University
• SER - Society for Ecological Restoration - home
• Shortgrass Steppe LTER and examples of Potential Natural Vegetation mapping.
• State of the Land - homepage - US NCRS America's Private Land: a Geography of Hope? - info on US Land situation, maps, data
• Species Abstracts of Highly Disruptive Exotic Plants - USGS
• Tales of the Prairie - Prairie Enthusiasts of West Central Wisconsin and northern Illinois - see its LINKS! - excellent resources!
• Tatanka Project, Sierra Club - Reintroduction of Buffalo - Northern Plains
• Terrestrial Ecozones of Canada - homepage
• TED (Trade and Environment Database) of case studies - Mexico and North America
• United States Surface-Water Data Retrieval.
• US Central Plains and Global Warming - study by Duke University.
• US Fish and Wildlife Service - Region 3.
• Water Quality in the Prairie Ecosystem - Environment Canada.
• Water Supply Outlook - US West
• Waterways Experiment Station - US Army Corp of Engineers
• Western Hemisphere Shorebirds Reserve Network
• Western Lands Environment GOPHER - documents of many types
• Wetlands Losses in the United States - 1780s to 1980s
• Wetlands Loss and Degradation in the US - article
• Whooping Crane - National Wildlife Federation
• Wildflowers and Prairie Grass Seed by Prairie Frontier
• Wildland Invasive Species Program - TNC (The Nature Conservancy)
• Willa Cather State Historic Site - Red Cloud, Nebraska
   

Eastern Prairie Zone: - Prairie-Forest Boundary

Indiana:

• Amish Acres (historic farm) Nappanee Indiana
• Historical Landcover Changes in the Great Lakes Region - LUHNA Project
• Indiana Audobon Society home
• Indiana Dept of Natural Resources - home
• Indianapolis Zoo
• Land and Life on the North American Prairie, by Robert E. Ford - Wiley Online Casebook
• Save the Dunes Council - Northwest Indiana / Great Lakes
   

Ohio:

• Cincinnatti Floods - Local - The Enquirer - March 19, 1997
• Great Lakes/Manufacturing Belt of Ohio - GCLP Project - AAG
• Historical Landcover Changes in the Great Lakes Region - LUHNA Project
• Marion Campus Prairie Reconstruction - Ohio State University
• Muskingum mines, Ohio  1973, 1985, 1990, 1997 - EarthShots/USGS
• Ohio Dept of Natural Resources - home
• Ohio Farmland Preservation Task Force Final Report
   

Middle Prairie Zone: Tallgrass Prairie Transition

Iowa

• 1993 Floods on the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers - Wiley Casebook, W.S. White
• Friends of the Prairie Learning Center - Neal Smith National Wildlife Refuge
• GIS map project on historical plat maps - Iowa
• Iowa City Natural Areas - home
• Iowa Geological Survey - Browse page - many resources
• Iowa Geological Survey - home
• Iowa Ornithologists Union - home
• Iowa Prairie Network - photos, info, networks
• Land and Life on the North American Prairie, by Robert E. Ford - Wiley Online Casebook
• Landform Regions of Iowa - map
• Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture - Iowa State University
• Leopold Education Project (LEP) - Iowa State University
• Living History Farms - Urbandale, Iowa
• Loess Hills, a National Natural Landmark module by Jean Cutler Prior
• Loess Hills: A Geologic View, by Jean Cutler Prior andDeborah J. Quade
• Mapping for the Next Century - Iowa page
• Neal Smith National Wildlife Refuge Prairie Learning Center - Jasper County, Iowa
• Reflective Images - photography on the Iowa prairie region by Gary D. Tonhouse
• Science II Prairie restoration site - Iowa State University
   

Missouri:

• 1993 Floods on the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers - Wiley Casebook, W.S. White
• Missouri Botanical Garden home page and  Education resources
• Missouri Dept of Conservation - home
• Missouri Prairie Foundation page
• Profiting from Prairie by Margot McMillen, article from Missouri Department of Conservation.
• Presettlement and Contemporary Vegetation Patterns Along Two Navigation Reaches of the Upper Mississippi River - LUHNA Project - Land Use History of North America
• University of Missouri-Columbia and its Department of Geography

Wisconsin:

• Arboretum - University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Big Eastern: The Edge of the Prairie Aldo Leopold site - Wisconsin
• Center for Restoration Ecology - University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Chiwaukee Prairie, Kenosha County, Wisconsin - University of Wisconsin-Parkside & the Nature Conservancy project
• CIAS - Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems - University Wisconsin-Madison
• DNR - Department of Natural Resources - Wisconsin
• Driftless Region - Wisconsin
• Endangered Resources Program - Wisconsin DNR - Department of Natural Resources
• Geographic Services Section - Wisconsin/DNR
• Geography Resources - University of Wisconsin-Madison - Many data sources as well as imagery
• Glacial History of Portage County, Wisconsin
• Historical Landcover Changes in the Great Lakes Region - LUHNA Project
• International Crane Foundation - Wisconsin
• Jo Daviess County Soil & Water Conservation District - Northwest Wisconsin group
• Land and Life on the North American Prairie, by Robert E. Ford - Wiley Online Casebook
• Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center - NBS - Jamestown, ND
• Oakfield, Wisconsin - TORNADO Case Study - SSEC - University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Original Vegetation Map of Wisconsin - GIS Project/DNR - Land Cover Maps
• Prairie Enthusiasts of West Central Wisconsin and its LINKS! - excellent resources!
• Restoring Nature - University of Wisconsin-Madison - interdisciplinary graduate seminar - Nancy Langston
• Sauk City Prairie, Sauk City, Wisconsin
• Sustainable Agriculture - Resources and Links - CIAS - Wisconsin
• Tales of the Prairie - Prairie Enthusiasts of West Central Wisconsin and northern Illinois - see its LINKS! - excellent resources!
• The Hogback - prairie preserve in Crawford County
• Wisconsin Cooperative Park Studies Unit - home
• WWPP - Western Wisconsin Prairie Project

Illinois:

• 50 Years of Change in Illinois Hill Prairies - Kent Robertson and others
• At Home in the Heartland Online Home - Illinois Science Museum
• Belmont Prairie - Illinois
• Big Eastern: The Edge of the Prairie - Oak & Sand Prairies - Chicago region
• Chicago Wilderness Nature Preserve - many links including biodiversity atlas
• Chicago Wilderness site and its GIS homepage
• Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Illinois--Chicago
• Dino Russ's Lair - Illinois Geological Survey, Dinosaur site
• East-Central Illinois prairie resources - Grand Prairie Friends
• Farmbill Illinois - local applications
• Fermilab Prairie - Illinois
• Garfield Farm and Inn Museum - Kane County Illinois
• Geographic Modeling Systems Lab, University of Illinois
• Grand Prairie Friends - Illinois
• Goose Lake Prairie - State Natural area - Illinois (LL Bean Outdoors Online Guide)
• Historical Landcover Changes in the Great Lakes Region - LUHNA Project
• Illinois Department of Natural Resources - state agency
• Illinois Ecosystems - Illinois Museum of Natural History
• Illinois Natural Resources Information Network
• Illinois State Geological Survey - and its Resources for Teaching Geology - Ask-a-Geologist program and  - Geology Underfoot in Illinois - modules, images and links to field guides
• Illinois - NRCS (Natural Resources Conservation Service)
• Illinois Natural Resources Geospatial Data Clearinghouse - GIS products
• Illinois Natural History Survey - home page
• Illinois Prairie Page - Directory of Prairies in Illinois
• Illinois State Water Supply - home
• Land and Life on the North American Prairie, by Robert E. Ford - Wiley Online Casebook
• Map of Natural Divisions (ecosystems) - Illinois (Kent Robertson).
• Mazon Creek Fossils, Illinois
• Meadowbrook Prairie - Southeast Urbana, Illinois
• Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie - former military base - Joliet Arsenal
• Museums in the Classroom - Chicago Museums of Science
• Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center - NBS - Jamestown, ND
• PLAN-IT Illinois - Innovative K-12 science curriculum based on Illinois Critical Ecosystems Trends Assessments
• Prairie Cemeteries - Illinois
• Prairie Enthusiasts of West Central Wisconsin and northern Illinois - see its LINKS! - excellent resources!
• Prairie in Illinois - bibliography
• Prairie Index by Counties - Illinois
• Prairienet Community Information Network - University Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
• Prairie Restoration - Ledermann Science Education Center - Teacher outreach - Fermi Lab
• Sierra Club Prairie Group of Illinois.
• Southern 7 GIS Project (seven counties at tip of Illinois) - landscape analysis, slope, and erosion potential - see USDA NRCS - Champaign, Illinois - University of Southern Illinois
• Tales of the Prairie - Prairie Enthusiasts of West Central Wisconsin and northern Illinois - see its LINKS! - excellent resources!
• Tallgrass Prairie in Illinois - excellent module by Kent Robertson, Illinois Natural Survey
• Threatened and endangered species - Illinois prairies
• USDA NRCS - Champaign, Illinois - University of Southern Illinois

Upper Midwest - Forest/Northern Plains
   

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Canada:

• Alberta, Canada - Food and Rural Development
• Canada - Biodiversity protection page
• Canada's Virtual North - home
• Canadian extinct or at risk species
• Earth Sciences Dept - Carleton University - Ottawa, Canada
• EMAN (Ecological Monitoring and Assessment Network) - Environment Canada
• Endangered Whooping Crane: An Alberta, Canada Perspective
• Geology in the Classroom - Canada
• Green Lane - Canada by region
• Hooper Paleontological Virtual Museum - Ottawa, Canada - Carleton University
• Historical Landcover Changes in the Great Lakes Region - LUHNA Project
• Images of Canada - tour from satellites and ground-level
• Journey North - A Global Study of Bird Migration
• Knife River Delta, Canada - vegetation index - EarthShots - Environmental Change - USGS
• Land Use and Environmental Change in Thompson-Okanagan
• Mountain Forum - mountain regions/ecosystems
• Natural Resources Canada - English edition
• Participatory Development Network/Forum - University of Guelph, Canada and its PD Resources, e.g. Facilitators Toolbox
• PECOS - Prairie Ecosystem Study - University of Saskachewan/University of Regina, Canada
• Prairie Wetlands Ecology Team - University of Manitoba
• Prescribed Burning Guidelines in the Northern Great Plains - USGS
• Terrestrial Ecozones of Canada - homepage

Michigan:

• Beaver island: bridging geomorphology, ecological processes, and environmental planning and design - Michigan State University
• Computation Ecology and Visualization Lab - Michigan State Uuniversity
• Great Lakes and Regional Information - Michigan State University Dept. of Geography
• Historical Landcover Changes in the Great Lakes Region - LUHNA Project
• Lake Michigan forum and resources
• Land and Life on the North American Prairie, by Robert E. Ford - Wiley Online Casebook
• Michigan Dept of Natural Resources - home
• Michigan Karst Conservancy
• Michigan United  - Conservation Clubs - Michigan Outdoors
• RESOURCES FOR EARTH SCIENCE AND  GEOGRAPHY INSTRUCTION - CMU (Central Michigan University)
• U.S. LTER: W.K. Kellogg Biological Station-Michigan - Agro-ecosystems/landscape ecology (LTER Network)

Minnesota:

• 1993 Floods on the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers - Wiley Casebook, W.S. White
• Borchert Map Library - Univ of Minnesota
• Cedar Creek Natural History Area/LTER - Minnesota - Long Term Ecological Research
• Dept of Geography - University of Minnesota
• Historical Landcover Changes in the Great Lakes Region - LUHNA Project
• IAL - International Association of Limnogeology - University of Minnesota
• Land and Life on the North American Prairie, by Robert E. Ford - Wiley Online Casebook
• Limnological Research Center - University of Minnesota
• Minnesota Sea Grant Program - various resources on the Great Lakes
• Mountain-Prairie area - US Fish & Wildlife Service - Region 6
• Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center - NBS - Jamestown, ND
• Paleorecords of Global Change - Limnological Research Center, Univ of Minnesota
• Prescribed Burning Guidelines in the Northern Great Plains - USGS
• Presettlement and Contemporary Vegetation Patterns Along Two Navigation Reaches of the Upper Mississippi River - LUHNA Project - Land Use History of North America
• Remote Sensing and Geospatial Analysis Laboratory - University of Minnesota
• Restoration and Reclamation Review - University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota (USA)
• Superior National Forest Virtual Visitor Center - USDA / Minnesota
• Visualizer for Paleoclimatological data - LRC - Univ of Minnesota
   

Great Plains: Shortgrass Prairies, Steppes  and Shrublands:

See also US-Mexico Border - Arizona - California - Mono Lake - Nevada - Colorado Plateau - New Mexico - Great Basin and US-Mexico Border Case 5 - Wiley Publishers

General--US Southwest:

• Anasazi - article on climate change, drought and environmental change
• Ancient World Web: Main Index
• Citi-Guide - Surfing the Southwest
• Colorado Plateau Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit (CPCESU)
• Colorado Plateau Data Sharing sites - GIS/Land Use, etc
• Colorado Plateau Eco-Region - Sierra Club Project
• Colorado Plateau Ecosystems - LUHNA Project - Land Use History of North America
• Collapse: Why do Civilizations Fall? -- The Maya and Collapse: Touching the Past (see also Chaco culture)
• Desert Southwest - MAPS - The Globe Corner Bookstore
• Ecosystem Ecology course - cases on the Colorado Plateau
• EPA Region 9 - Arizona/California
• Grand Staircase - geology - Southern Colorado Plateau
• Great Basin - High Desert Ecoregion - Sierra Club
• GORP - Southern Utah Recreation Guide and MAP
• Happy Campers - Guide to the Southwest and Northern Mexico
• Historical Geology - course materials - Northern Arizona University Dr. Ron Blakey, Professor of Geology
• Images Illustrating Environmental Subjects - California and the West
• Images of the Southwest - Slickrock Gallery photos, etc - Boulder, Utah
• Land and Life on the North American Prairie, by Robert E. Ford - Wiley Online Casebook
• Land Use History of the Colorado Plateau - LUHNA Project - Land Use History of North America
• Landscape Changes in the Southwestern United States: Techniques, Long-term Data Sets, and Trends
• Mountain Forum - mountain regions/ecosystems
• Mountain-Prairie area - US Fish & Wildlife Service - Region 6
• Mountain West expeditions and trips - Adventure Quest site
• Mt. St. Helens Blast Zone Recovery - case study
• Native Plant Conservation Initiative - home and Navajoland resources
• NativeTech: Indigenous Plants and Native American Uses...
• NOVA Online | Search for the Lost Cave People - article
• Paleogeography of the Southwestern US - Northern Arizona University Dr. Ron Blakey, Professor of Geology
• Petroleum Geology - Wiley Casebook, R. Moye and S. Zicus
• Plants of the Southwest - New Mexico
• Radiocarbon Home page - Univ of Arizona
• Recreation Opportunities on Federal Lands - home
• Shortgrass Steppe LTER - Colorado State University
• Southwestern Archaeology (SWA) - home
• Southwestern Association of Naturalists- home
• SW (Southwest) Parks Home
• US-Mexico Border region resources & Latin America
• Virtually Hawaii: Virtual Field Trips
• WSSPC - Western States Seismic Policy Council - home

  Dakotas:

• Badlands National Park - GORP
• Black Hills: stratigraphy and geology/geography (including the Badlands)
• Department of Environment and Natural Resources - home
• EROS Data Center, Sioux Falls, S.D. - EarthShots/USGS
• Land and Life on the North American Prairie, by Robert E. Ford - Wiley Online Casebook
• Mountain-Prairie area - US Fish & Wildlife Service - Region 6
• Nature Conservancy of the Dakotas - newsletter
• North Dakota Natural Heritage Program - home
• Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center - NBS - Jamestown, North Dakota
• Prescribed Burning Guidelines in the Northern Great Plains - USGS
• South Dakota Geological Survey - home
• South Dakota - geology
• Tatanka Project, Sierra Club - Reintroduction of Buffalo - Northern Plains

  Kansas:

• Becoming Native to this Place - review of book by West Jackson /Land Institute - Salina, Kansas - see also article-High Country News about Wes Jackson
• Center for Great Plains Studies, Kansas (Emporia State Univ) websites list
• EarthShots: satellite images of environmental change - USGS (see Garden City, Kansas)
• ENC - Eisenhower National Clearinghouse - center for Math / Sciences K-12 support - Salina Kansas.
• Fire's Role in Prairie Survival - article on Konza Prairie research - Environmental News Network, May 1998.
• Fort Larned National Historical site and related resources (Kansas), e.g. Santa Fe Trail
• Global Change & Local Places Study - Toledo / Kansas  / Appalachia
• Highlands/Ogallala area of Kansas - GCLP Project/AAG
• INK - Information Network - State of Kansas
• Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks - animal photos/graphics, etc
• Kansas Heritage Center web resources
• Kansas - The Nature Conservancy - Flint Hills Tallgrass Prairie
• Konza Prairie LTER, Kansas and resource lists and the Konza Prairie Research Natural Area - Kansas State University
• Land and Life on the North American Prairie, by Robert E. Ford - Wiley Online Casebook
• Native Kansas Prairie websites
• Northern Flint Hills Newsletter - Kansas Audobon Society -The Prairie Falcon site
• Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve - ZBar/Spring Hill Ranch, Flint Hills, Kansas (National Trust)
• Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve - Flint Hills, Kansas (National Park Service site)
• Tall Grass National Prairie Preserve north of Strong City -- Kansas

Nebraska:

• About Nebraska - basic intro information
• Arthur Bowring Sandhills Ranch - State Historical Park
• Center for Grassland Studies, University of Nebraska
• Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska--Lincoln - extensive resource list
• Chadron State Park - Northwest Nebraska.
• David C. Gosselin - Conservation and Survey Division - UNL (NESEN)
• Great Plains Film Festival - Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska--Lincoln
• Great Plains Quarterly - Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska--Lincoln
• High Plains Climate Center - home (University of Nebraska-Lincol)
• Homestead Nat'l Monument - Gage County, Nebraska resources
• IANR - Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources - University of Nebraska, Lincoln
• Land and Life on the North American Prairie, by Robert E. Ford - Wiley Online Casebook
• Loess/Mixed-Grass Prairies - Nebraska GIS project
• National Drought Mitigation Center - UNL
• NESEN - Nebraska Earth Science Education Network - home
  and its Teacher Resources - home
• NGPC - GIS Project - home
• NGPC - Nebraska Game and Parks Commission - home
• NGPC - GIS Project - home
• Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center - NBS - Jamestown, ND
• Platte River Endagered Species Partnership - Whooping Crane (Grus americana)
• Prairies in Nebraska - GIS map
• Sandhills Atlas - home
• Virtual Nebraska - many GIS and aerial photo resources
• Willa Cather State Historic Site - Red Cloud, Nebraska

Oklahoma:

• Biological Survey - University of Oklahoma, Norman
• EPA Region 6 - home (Texas, New Mexico)
• IPE (Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Environment) - University of Oklahoma, Norman
• Land and Life on the North American Prairie, by Robert E. Ford - Wiley Online Casebook
• Linda Wallace, Plant Ecology and Grazing Ecologist, Dept of Botany, University of Oklahoma - Samuel Roberts Noble Presidential Professor
• Oklahoma Conservation Commission - home
• Tallgrass Prairie Preserve - Osage County, Oklahoma
• University of Oklahoma - Norman
• ESSE resources - Earth System Science Education course - College of Geoscience - University of Oklahoma -

Texas:

See also US-Mexico Border - Arizona - California - Mono Lake - Nevada - Colorado Plateau - New Mexico - Great Basin and US-Mexico Border Case 5 - Wiley Publishers

• Bureau of Economic Geology -  home
• Carlsbad Caverns National Park
• CERM - Center for Environmental Resource Management - UTEP
• Brownsville, Texas - homepage
• EPA Region 6 - home (Texas, New Mexico....)
• Hill Country Bird Trail - Central Texas virtual fieldtrip
• Jarrell TX - Tornado - see also following animations and personal accounts
• Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center - Austin, Texas
• Land and Life on the North American Prairie, by Robert E. Ford - Wiley Online Casebook
• Population Research Center, University of Texas-Austin
• Prairie Restoration and Resource Guide - Univ of Texas, Geographer's Craft Project
• San Antonio, Texas - EarthShots/USGS
• Texas Rangeland and Management Project - home (Texas A & M University).
• Texas Water Development Board - home
• Texas WaterNet - home
• Texas Whooping Cranes - home
• TNRIS - Texas Natural Resource Information System - home
• Virtual Geography Department Project - University of Texas-Austin
  

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Palouse Prairie and Rocky Mountains Province:

See also: Utah general - Utah Geology - Great Salt Lake/Wasatch Region - Southern Utah - Great Basin - US-Mexico Border - Arizona - California - Mono Lake - Nevada - Colorado Plateau - New Mexico - Great Basin and US-Mexico Border Case 5 - Wiley Publishers
 

• 100 Years of Earthquakes in the Wyoming Region - UWYO
• Biodiversity and Land-use History of the Palouse Bioregion: Pre-European to Present  - LUHNA Project - Land Use History of North America
• College of Mines and Earth Resources - University of Idaho
• Earthquakesin Wyoming - FEMA
• Fire Ecology - Landscape Dynamics of Yellowstone National Park: The Role of Fire 1690 to 1990
• Fire Ecology - Simulating Fire Patterns in Heterogeneous Landscapes
• Fire Ecology - SIR-C/X-SAR image Yellowstone Park, Wyoming
• Fossil Butte National Monument (near Kemmerer, Wyoming) - activities, photos of fossils of the Green River Formation
• Geology of the Grand Teton National Park
• GIAC - Geographic Information and Analysis Center - Montana State University, Bozeman
• GORP - Yellowstone resources
• Greater Yellowstone Area Field Station - USGS
• Greater Yellowstone Area Guide - home
• Greater Yellowstone Data Clearinghouse - GIAC
• Greater Yellowstone Interagency Brucellosis Committee - home - see also: BRUCELLOSIS in the Greater Yellowstone Area
• Greater Yellowstone Database & resources - University of Wyoming Library
• Greater Yellowstone Coalition - home
• Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem - USGS
• Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem - Greater Yellowstone Coalition site
• Greater Yellowstone Area Page - search of webpages in the region
• Greater Yellowstone Area OnLine Atlas - GIAC
• Idaho Geological Survey - home
• Idaho Natural Resources Page
• Land and Life on the North American Prairie, by Robert E. Ford - Wiley Online Casebook
• Land Use and Environmental Change in Thompson-Okanagan
• Lesser roadless areas of the Caribou National Forest - Southeast Idaho/Overthrust Belt - photos and environmental survey
• Montana DNRC - Dept of Natural Resources and Conservation
• MontanaWeb - online
• Mountain-Prairie area - US Fish & Wildlife Service - Region 6
• Natural and Human Drivers of Biodiversity in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem - LUHNA Project - Land Use History of North America
• Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center - NBS - Jamestown, ND
• Northern Rocky Mountain Ecosystems Section - USGS/MESC
• Palouse Region grasslands - LUHNA Project - Land Use History of North America
• Petroleum Geology - Wiley Casebook, R. Moye and S. Zicus
• PCEI Palouse Clearwater Environmental Institute - home
• Prescribed Burning Guidelines in the Northern Great Plains - USGS
• Rocky Mountain Environmental Directory - home
• Scientific Research and Science in Yellowstone National Park - Cindy Stewart Kaag, Washington State            University
• Sierra Club Headwaters Group - Northern Rockies
• State of Wyoming - homepage
• SW (Southwest) Parks Home
• TOTAL YELLOWSTONE page
• University of Wyoming, Department of Geology and Geophysics
• University of Wyoming, Department of Geography and Recreation
• USGS - Geological Information on Wyoming - home
• USGS - Programs in Montana - home/list
• USGS - Programs in Idaho - home
• USGS - Programs in Wyoming - home
• West Yellowstone, Montana page
• West Yellowstone WebWorks - home
• Wyoming Basin Water/Snow Outlook Reports - NRCS
• Wyoming State Geological Survey (WSGS) - home
• Virtual Geology - Idaho Geological Survey - home
• Virtual Wyoming - home
• Wild Rockies Field Institute - environmental organization
• Wild Rockies Slate - environmental group information site
• Wyoming Game and Fish - state agency
• Wyoming WWW resources - from University of Wyoming, Geographic Alliance
• Wyoming Resources - Library, University of Wyoming
• Yellowstone Archives Index - National Park Service
• Yellowstone Association - home - sources of information, bookstore, etc.Yellowstone Association Geology Products
• Yellowstone Caldera, Wyoming - Cascades Volcano Observatory/USGS.
• Yellowstone Ecosystem Studies site
• Yellowstone - Fantastic Journeys - National Geographic Kids
• Yellowstone Fires and their Legacy - resources
• Yellowstone Flyfisher - many resources on fishing
• Yellowstone Geographic - science and regional site - EXCELLENT!
• Yellowstone geysers information
• Yellowstone Guidelines - guide service
• Yellowstone Journal - independent newsletter
• Yellowstone National Park (pictures) - and related links -  Official National Park Site
• YellowstoneNet Directory - homepage and its COOL WebLINKS!
• Yellowstone Photo Gallery - great!
• Yellowstone volcanic maps an ETE / COTF Module (NASA Classroom of the Future)

Contact an Expert

Individuals:

• Alternative agriculture sites: John Jeavons (Ecology Action), Alan York (Biodynamic Agriculture), Wes Jackson (The Land Institute) and other resources
   
• David C. Gosselin - Conservation and Survey Division - UNL (NESEN) - Nebraska Earth Science Education Network
   
• Dr. Donald Currey - Professor and Director of the Limneotectonics Laboratory  - University of Utah
   
• Dwight Brown, Grasslands biogeographer / Quaternary Studies
  Phil Gersmehl, Soil / Quaternary and Rural Geographer

  Department of Geography, University of Minnesota.  See specifically Dr. Brown's Hands-on Active Learning Module (AAG) entitled: Living in the Biosphere and related resources.  It empasizes heavily biogeography of the Mid-Continent region.

• Kenneth Robertson - Botanist, Curator of the Herbarium, Center for Biodiversity
  Illinois Natural History Survey, 607 East Peabody Drive, Champaign, IL 61820 USA 217 244-2171 (voice) 217 333-4949 (Fax) e-mail: krrobert@uiuc.edu
   
• Linda Wallace, Plant Ecology and Grazing Ecologist, Dept of Botany, University of Oklahoma - Samuel Roberts Noble Presidential Professor

  She is also involved with the IPE (Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Environment) program and does considerable work with several grassland research projects in the central Great Plains.

• LUHNA - Land Use History of North America Project - Contacts on the  Staff
   
• Computation Ecology and Visualization Lab - Michigan State University and its Director: Stuart A. Gage and other staff

See also:

• Ask-a-Geologist site
• Ask-a-Mad Scientist Network site
• Ask-a-Physicist site
• Dr. Global Change site

Organizations and Projects

See also: Utah general - Utah Geology - Great Salt Lake/Wasatch Region - Southern Utah - Great Basin - US-Mexico Border - Arizona - California - Mono Lake - Nevada - Colorado Plateau - New Mexico - Great Basin and US-Mexico Border Case 5 - Wiley Publishers

• At Home in the Heartland - Illinois State Museum
• Bureau of Land Management - home and its Environmental Education resources
• Center for Grassland Studies, University of Nebraska
• Center for Great Plains Studies, Kansas, Emporia State University
• Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska--Lincoln - Plains Links
• CIAS - Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems - University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Environmental Management Technical Center - USGS / Onalaska, Wisconsin
• Fish and Wildlife Service - US
• Gap Analysis - Geographic Approach to Planning for Biodiversity
• Grand Prairie Friends - organization - Illinois
• Great Lakes and Regional Information - Michigan State University Department of Geography
• Great North American Prairie Ecoregion - Sierra Club
• High Plains Aquifer - USGS
• Homestead Nat'l Monument - homepage - National Park Service
• Illinois NRCS, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champlaign
• Iowa Prairie Network - homepage
• Konza Prairie LTER, Kansas and resource lists, Kansas State University
• Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture - Iowa State University
• Living History Farm Museum - Urbandale, Iowa
• Midcontinent Ecological Science Center Home Page
• Missouri Botanical Garden and  Education resources
• Natural Heritage Network - or - Association for Biodiversity Information
• Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center - NBS - Jamestown, ND
• NRCS - Champaign, Illinois - University of Southern Illinois
• Prairienet - many links
• Society for Ecological Restoration - home
• Southern 7 GIS Project (seven counties at tip of Illinois) - landscape analysis, slope, and erosion potential - see USDA NRCS - Champaign, Illinois - University of Southern Illinois
• USDA - U.S. Dept of Agriculture
• USDA NRCS - Champaign, Illinois - University of Southern Illinois
   

Statistical Sources

• Colorado Plateau Data Sharing sites - GIS/Land Use, etc
• Demographic Data Viewer Home Page
• GAP Analysis - Upper Midwest  Home Page