Gathering Information--Additional Ecosystem Links

Arctic National Wildlife Refuge:

• Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
• Arctic National Wildlife Refuge: A Special Report

• Benjamin P. Nageak of the Inupiat people and former mayor of North Slope Borough, Alaska, on Arctic National Wildlife Development

• Congressional Research Service, CRS Issue Brief for Congress: The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, September 1996
• Congressional Research Service, CRS Issue Brief for Congress: The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge: The Next Chapter, August 2001
• George N. Ahamaogk, North Slope Borough mayor: Issues Surrounding Development of ANWR

• Michael Grunwald, Washington Post staff writer, Some Facts Clear in the War of Spin over Arctic Refuge, Wednesday, March 6, 2002

• Mortimer B. Zuckerman, editor in chief, U.S. News & World Report, The Caribou Conundrum

• Norma Kassi, Gwich'in activist and Caribou Commons Project speaker

• Northern Alaska Environmental Center, Alaska's Arctic
• Taiga Net, Porcupine Caribou Herd

• Tanana Chiefs Conference, Inc., Resolution No. 90-2, March 1990: Protect Porcupine Herd

• U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, news release, Secretary Babbitt on USGS Assessment of Oil Reserves under Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, May 1998

• U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, news release, Secretary of the Interior Bruce Babbitt on New Legislation by Senator Frank Murkowski to Permit Oil Exploration in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, March 2000

• USGS report, Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, 1002 Area, Petroleum Assessment, 1998, Including Economic Analysis
  

Cimarron National Grassland:

• Bureau of Land Management report, Procedures Not Followed In Escaped Prescribed Fire, BLM Investigative Team Concludes, July 26, 1999

• Congressional Research Service, CRS Report for Congress, Forest Fire Protection (PDF format)
• Douglas H. Johnson, U.S. Geological Survey Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center, Effects of Fire on Bird Populations in Mixed-Grass Prairie: A Proposed Conservation Strategy
• Flora and Fauna of the Great Plains

• George Wuerthner, Smokey the Bear's Legacy on the West

• Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks, Cimmaron National Grasslands

• NASA Earth Observatory, First Global Carbon Monoxide (Air Pollution) Measurements, April 30, 2000

• National Interagency Fire Center

• Nebraska Cooperative Extension EC 98-148-A, Grassland Management with Prescribed Fire

• Prairie Parcel Restoration

• Ross W. Gorte, CRS Report for Congress, Forest Fires and Forest Health

• Santa Fe National Historic Trails

• Santa Fe National Historic Trails, Point of Rocks, Cimarron National Grassland, Kansas

• U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service, Fire and Aviation Management, The Ecology of Fire

• U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service, Fire and Aviation Management, Spreading the News about Wildland Fire

• U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Mountain-Prairie Region, Black-Footed Ferret Recovery: At the Crossroads, April 1995

 

Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area:

• Courier-Post, A River's Rebirth

• Delaware River Basin Commission, Home Page

• Delaware River Basin Commission, The Delaware River Basin

• Delaware Riverkeeper Network, fact sheet, Carrying Capacity in Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area

• Delaware Riverkeeper Network, Delaware River Fact Sheet

• Delaware River and Canal, New Hope, Pennsylvania, Current Issues

• Division of Research and Resource Planning, 1998 Natural Resources News, Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area

• Kathleen Kodish Reeder, National Park Service, Restoring a Watershed: Applying New Technology to Migrate Acid Mine Drainage in the Northeast

• National Atmospheric Deposition Program, Isopleth Maps

• National Park Service, Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area, History

• National Park Service, Executive Summary: Lower Delaware River Management Plan

• New Jersey's Great Northwest Skylands, Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area

• President Bill Clinton to U.S. Representative Rush Holt (D-N.J.)

• U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Nonpoint Source News-Notes, Notes on Watershed Management, Urban Watershed Bill Introduced, May/June 1994 Issue 36

 

El Yunque Caribbean National Forest:

• El Boricua un Poquito de Todo...a monthly bilingual, cultural publication for Puerto Ricans

• Father Sánchez's website of West Indian natural history

• Hawaii Ecosystems at Risk, U.S. Geological Survey, Alien Caribbean Frogs in Hawaii

• Hecho en Puerto Rico, El Yunque, The Caribbean National Forest

• J. Michael Meyers, U.S. Department of the Interior, National Biological Service, Puerto Rican Parrots

• Luquillo Experimental Forest, Long-term Ecological Research Project

• Rainforest Action Network, Why We Do It

• Rainforest Alliance, Rainforest Resources/Facts

• Raintree Nutrition, Rainforest Facts

• Mongabay.com, Rainforest Information and News

• Tropical Rainforests, The Harvest of Sustainable Forest Products
• T. S. Campbell,The Puerto Rican Coqui, Eleutherodactylus Coqui. Institute for Biological Invasions Invader of the Month

• U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Division of Endangered Species, Species Accounts: Golden Coqui (Eleutherodactylus jasperi)

• World Rainforest Information Portal, Cattle Ranching

 

Everglades National Park:

• National Park Service, Everglades National Park Official Website

• American Park Network, Everglades National Park

• Everglades National Park, U.S. National Parks.net, not associated with government national parks websites

• Everglades Restoration, Rescuing an Endangered Ecosystem: the Journey to Restore America's Everglades

• Florida Coastal Everglades Long-Term Ecological Research

• Friends of the Everglades, founded by Marjory Stoneman Douglas

• Governor's Commission for a Sustainable South Florida, archived reports

• Governor's Commission for the Everglades
• National Park Service, Endangered Species

• National Park Service, The Everglades Ecosystem

• National Park Service, History of Everglades National Park

• National Park Service, Population Growth, Everglades National Park

• Nicole T. Carter, CRS Report to Congress, South Florida Ecosystem Restoration and the Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan

• South Florida Wading Bird Report, Dale E. Gawlik, editor, October 2001

• South Florida Water Management District, Everglades

• South Florida Water Management District, Mission Statement

  Click "The District's Mission."

• South Florida Water Management District, South Florida Watershed Ecosystems

• U.S. Geological Survey, Water Resources of Florida, Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan

• Water Technology.net, Tampa Bay Desalination Plant

• World Heritage Committee, Everglades National Park

Florida Keyes National Marine Sanctuary:

• Access NOAA, Florida Keys Achieve Historic Protection!

• Florida State Parks, John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park

• Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, Introduction to Coral

• Florida Keys and Key West, The Spiegel Grove Wreck

• Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary 
• Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary, The Mooring Buoy System

• Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary, Clickable Map

• Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary, Shipwreck Trail

• Florida Keys On-line Guide, Boating

• Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute, Florida Reef Restoration

• Marine Protected Areas of the United States

• National Coral Reef Institute

• National Marine Sanctuaries

• National Marine Santuaries, Columbus Iselin Coral Reef Restoration Project

• U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Coastal Watersheds, Coral Reefs and Your Coastal Watershed

• U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Coral Reef Protection

• U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Treasured Waters: Protecting Our Coastal and Marine Resources

Mono Lake Tufa State Reserve:

• Mono Lake Committee, Mono Lake Website
• Mono Lake Committee, Restoration

• American University, Trade Environment Database, TED Case Studies, The Los Angeles Aqueduct and the Owens and Mono Lakes (MONO Case)

• Center for the Study of the Environment, Mono Lake: A Lesson in Environmental Problem Solving

• Institute for Computational Earth System Science, Biogeographical Processes Group, Mono Lake map
• Sierra Gateway Maps, Mono Lake map

• Living Lakes, Mono Lake

• Living Lakes, Water Diversion for Urban Use

• Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, Mono Basin Watershed: Mono Lake Level Restoration

• Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, Recreational Uses of City of Los Angeles, Eastern Sierra Land

• Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, Welcome to the Los Angeles Aqueduct

• Mono Basin Clearinghouse, Mono Basin Reports and Studies Online

• Mono Basin Clearinghouse, Raw Data and Field Notes from Mono Lake

• Mono Basin Clearinghouse, Summary of Mono Lake Litigation and Legislation

• Mono Lake, Tufa State Reserve

Monongahela National Forest:

• Charleston Gazette Online, The Forest for the Trees

• Steven J. Milauskas, forest operations specialist, West Virginia University Appalachian Hardwood Center, What Is Low-Impact Logging?

• U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, The Fernow Experimental Forest

• U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Mission Statement

• U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Monongahela National Forest, Forest Planning

• U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Monongahela National Forest, Wilderness Areas

• U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Glady Fork Environmental Impact Statement, Monongahela National Forest, Randolph and Tucker Counties, West Virginia

• Watershed Atlas, Explore the Monongahela Watershed

• Westvaco Natural Resources Center, West Virginia Forestry Facts

• West Virginia Logging Sediment Control Act (pdf file)
• West Virginia University Extension Service, Forestry and Wood Products
• William N. Grafton, wildlife specialist, West Virginia University Extension Service, Forest Provides Income from Crafts, Edibles, and More

Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary:

• California's Nearshore Waters and Open Ocean

• Kelp Watch
• Kelp Watch, Commercial Giant Kelp Harvesting

• Monterey Bay Aquarium

• Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute

• Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary, Kelp Management Report, October 2000

• Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary, Site Characterization

• Monterey Bay Sanctuary Foundation

• National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Marine Sanctuaries

• National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, What Is an El Niño?

• Trade and Environmental Database, Sea Urchin Fishery and Overfishing

• Water Quality Protection Program for Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary, Action Plan IV: Agriculture and Rural Lands, Water Quality Issues

 

Saguaro National Park:

• Bureau of Land Management in California, Imperial Dunes Draft Management Plan Available for Comment

• Desert Tortoise Council

• Desert Tortoise Preserve Committee

• Friends of Saguaro National Park
• U.S. Geological Survey, Mojave Desert Science Symposium, February 25-27, 1999, URBAN EFFECTS / POLLUTION

• John Brabyn, The Image Problem of Off-Road Travel

• Kristin H. Berry and Philip Medica, National Biological Service, Desert Tortoises in the Mojave and Colorado Deserts

• Saguaro National Park

• Side Canyon Travel Southwest, Saguaro National Park

• Sonoran Desert Naturalist

• Tread Lightly On Public and Private Lands, TreadLightly! Information

• U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Roadless Area Conservation

• Worth Allen, National Outdoor Leadership School, The Leader, Issue Room: Roadless Initiative

Yellowstone National Park:

• National Park Service, Official Website for Yellowstone National Park

• American Park Network, Yellowstone National Park

• Bearman's Yellowstone Park Wolf Updates

• CNN Interactive, Wolves' Return to Yellowstone Sparks Controversy

• Meg Streepey, University of Michigan, Geysers and the Earth's Plumbing Systems

• National Park Service, Official Website for Yellowstone National Park, Wolf Pack Map
• National Park Service, Official Website for Yellowstone National Park, Yellowstone Wildlife Pages

• National Park Service, Yellowstone National Park, Wolf Restoration to Yellowstone

• Thomas D. Brock, University of Wisconsin at Madison, Life at High Temperatures

• Timber Wolf Information Network, Status of Gray Wolf Recovery, Week of 5/21 to 5/28, 2004, Gray Wolf Recovery Weekly Progress Report

• The Total Yellowstone Page

• The Total Yellowstone Page, Wolf Report

• University of Utah, Seismology and Active Tectonics Research Group, Yellowstone Hotspot

• U.S. Geological Survey, Geysers, F umaroles, and Hot Springs

• Western Treasures, dedicated to the Nez Perce and Wyoming, Early History of Yellowstone National Park

• YellowstoneNationalPark.com

• Yellowstone.net, Yellowstone National Park History