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Ecosystems
Fire
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Management
Natural
Resources
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Wildlife
Ecoworld. Nature and Technology in Harmony. Info on Species and Ecosystems: air, water, earth, plants, trees, animals, people.
International Ecological Engineering Society Worldwide organization, based in Switzerland. Ecological engineering integrates various existing environmental fields such as classical ecology, agro-ecology, and restoration ecology. The skills of these fields are used to design low-impact systems for waste treatment, food and energy production, habitat restoration and other benefits.
Firewise:
making sensible choices in the wildland/urban interface
Learning
about wildland fire Listing of resources from USDA Forest Service
Prevention
and Education. Listing of resources from National Interagency Fire
Center (NIFC)
Protect
your home from wildfire
Publications.
USDA Forest Service
Wildfire.
American Red Cross. Steps to protect your family, home, and property.
Cooperative extension - State contacts the country: schools of forestry, higher education, human sciences, veterinary science, and state extension services and state experiment stations.
Forest Health Monitoring USDA Forest Service, a national program designed to determine the status, changes, and trends in indicators of forest condition on an annual basis
Forest Health Protection - St. Paul Field office. Emphasize protecting the long-term health and sustainability of our forests. Our major responsibilities: assist the States with implementing their forest health programs, insect and disease problems, management recommendations in forests, training in hazard tree management, and assistance with major forest pest control projects
Forestry Images archive of high quality images related to forest health and silviculture (insects, diseases, etc.), with particular emphasis on educational applications.
New York Forest Owners Association promotes stewardship of private forests, with the not-for-profit group consisting mainly of landowners
People's Glossary
of Ecosystem
Management Terms
Smart Wood Northeast Regional Guidelines for the Assessment of Natural Forest Management
Society of American Foresters. Largest professional society for foresters in the world. Includes Forestry Fun for Kids and lesson plans for teachers
Natural
Resources Conservation Service helps people conserve, maintain, and
improve our natural resources and environment. Tons of resources including
soils, erosion, watersheds,
water supply, tree
publications, pest
management, etc.
National
Environmental Services Center (NESC) serves as a clearinghouse for
information about drinking water, wastewater, environmental training,
and solid waste management in communities serving fewer than 10,000 individuals.
West Virginia University.
Watersheds. What is a watershed, locate your watershed, adopt your watershed, Watershed Atlas (a catalog of geo-spatial displays and analyses of information and data important for watershed protection and restoration), etc. EPA.
United
States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE). Planning, designing, building
and operating water resources such as Flood Damage Reduction, Ecosystem
Restoration, Environmental Stewardship, Wetlands and Waterways Regulation
& Permitting, Shore protection, Dam safety, Water supply.
1987 Wetland Delineation Manual 143 pages (1.43 Mb .pdf) FAQ
Structural Lightning Safety (National Lightning Safety Institute). Various articles on grounding, lightning fundamentals, zone/fortress protection, etc.
see also Natural Resources on this page
Wildlife Land Trust, an affiliate of The Humane Society of the United States. Free newsletter "Wildlife Tracks" and booklet Protecting Land for Wildlife.
Wildlife - Humane Society of the United States. Includes wildlife and habitat protection programs including backyard squirrels to black bears. They partner with communities to arrive at humane solutions to human-wildlife conflicts. Wild Neighbors News
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