This guide offers a starting point for finding online resources
pertaining to conservation. The resources listed below are
a selected set of resources and not a comprehensive list.
Bibliographies
Abstracts
of International Conservation Literature
Getty Conservation Institute's database contains 100,000 citations
related to the many fields of heritage preservation. Topics include:
archaeological methods, architectural conservation, education
and training, etc.
AGRICOLA
This National Agriculture Library database covers all aspects
of agriculture and allied disciplines, including plant sciences,
forestry, farming and farming systems, agricultural economics,
extension and education, food and human nutrition, and earth and
environmental sciences.
Explore NAL
agriculture conservation bibliographies.
American
Ethnic Geography Bibliography
This bibliography was created for a Valparaiso University geography
course entitled A Cultural Geography of the United States and
Canada by Professor
Kilpinen.
Community
Based CollabortivesResearch Consortium Resource Database
Community Based Collaboratives Research Consortium\
Environmental
History Bibligraphy
Forest History Society's "...bibliography contains over 36,000
annotated citations to books, articles, and dissertations published
from 1633 to date and is updated online quarterly. Approximately
1500 citations are added each year. Items are selected because
they provide a historical perspective on topics such as:
Conservation
law & legislation, Conservation organizations, Outdoor recreation,
Deforestation, Parks & nature reserves, Ecology, Federal land
management agencies,etc."
Environmental
Justice Bibliography
The Environmental Justice Bibliography Database (EJBib) is
created and maintained by the US EPA's Office of Environmental
Justice. Topics include environmental justice, risk assessment
and social justice. The database contains 2600 records from a
variety of sources and is a work in progress.
ERIC
US Department of Education Institute of Education Sciences
bibliographic database containing more than 1.1 million education
related citations going back to 1966.
Native
American Consultation Database
National Park
Service and University of Arkansas' "...tool
for identifying consultation contacts for Indian tribes, Alaska
Native villages and corporations, and Native Hawaiian organizations.
The database is not a comprehensive source of information, but
it does provide a starting point for the consultation process
by identifying tribal leaders and NAGPRA contacts."
National
Archaeological Database
National Park
Service and University of Arkansas' "....bibliographic inventory
of approximately 350,000 reports on archeological planning and
investigation, mostly of limited circulation. This "gray
literature" represents a large portion of the primary information
available on archeological sites in the U.S. NADB-Reports was
last updated in August 2004."
National
Environmental Publications Information System
"...over 10,000 full-text [U.S.] EPA documents online."
PubMed
"PubMed, a service of the National Library of Medicine,
includes over 15 million citations for biomedical articles back
to the 1950's. These citations are from MEDLINE and additional
life science journals. PubMed includes links to many sites providing
full text articles and other related resources."
Databases
CIESIN
Center for Earth Science Information Network
Columbia University's "CIESIN [database] works at the intersection
of the social, natural, and information sciences, and specializes
in on-line data and information management, spatial data integration
and training, and interdisciplinary research related to human
interactions in the environment."
EarthTrends
- The Environmental Information Portal
This database is created and maintained by the World Resources
Institute with a focus on enviromental, social and economic trends.
National
Atlas of the United States
US Geological Survey's "
...National Atlas of the United States® is intended to provide
a comprehensive, map-like view into the enormous wealth of data
collected by the Federal Government."
National
Historic Landmarks Program Database
This National
Park Service database contains basic information on all nationally
registered National Historic Landmarks. Each record contains
a registry number, date of designation and a brief description.
NatureNet
The National Park Service portal on natural resources information
in the National Parks.
ScienceDirect
(Elsevier Publishing)
A fee-based online platform for full-text and bibliographic access
to scientific literature. ScienceDirect also allows users to register
and create "alerts" to new journal literature table-of-contents
and topic alerts for free.
Science.gov
"...a gateway to 47 million pages of government science information."
Use the "Alert" feature to have updates emailed to you.
Scirus (Elsevier)
An Internet search engine that searches across scientific sources
only.
U.S.
World Heritage Sites / National Park Service
US Committee,
International Concil on Monuments and Sites (US/ICOMOS)
A joint effort by the National Park Service and US/ICOMOS to provide
information about the 20 world heritage areas.
World
Database on Protected Areas UN Environment Programme
"The World Database on Protected Areas is the result of a
collaboration between UNEP-WCMC and the IUCN World Commission
on Protected Areas (WCPA). It is compiled and managed with the
support of a wide range of national and international organizations,
including protected area agencies in most countries."
Education
LearnNPS
National Park Service Interpretation
and Education
Network
of Conservation Educators & Practitioners
NPS Exploring the Real Thing
NPS
Research Learning Center Clearinghouse
NPS Teaching With
Real Places
North American Association for Environmental Education
Place-Based
Education Evaluation Collaborative
Handbooks and Reports
Handbook
for Managers of Cultural Landscapes Conservation Study
Institute NPS
Interpretation
for Archeologiststs: A Guide to Increasing Knowledge, Skills and
Abilitites
National Park Service
Natural Resource Year in Review - 2003...National Park Service
Our
Living Resources: A Report to the Nation on the Distribution,
Abundance and Health of Plants, Animals and Ecosystems USGS
World Factbook Central Intelligence Agency
2003
IUCN Red List of Threatened Species International Union for
Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources
Image
Collections
American
Environmental Photographs 1891-1936
Library of Congress
Earth
Science World Imagebank American Geological Institute
Forest
History Sociey Photo Collection Forest History Society
NASA
Earth Observatory US NASA
National Park
Digital Image Archive US National Park Service
NPS Historic
Photograph Collection US National Park Service
UVM
Landscape Change Digital Archive University of Vermont
International
International
Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural
Property (ICCROM) Library
United
Nations Environment Programme
World
Heritage Center United Nations Educational, Scientific and
Cultural Organization
Journals
Online
Common Ground:Preserving
Our Nation's Heritage US National Park Service
Common Ground:
Archeology and Ethnography in the Public Interest US
National Park Service
Cultural
Resources Management US National Park Service
CRM: The Journal of Heritage Stewardship US National Park
Service
Ecology
& Society The Resilence Alliance
Electronic
Green Journal University of Idaho
Environmental
History January 2003 - present Forest History Society
& American Society for Environmental History
Land
& People The Trust for the Public Land
Sustainability
News US National Park Service
World
Heritage Paper Series United Nations Educational, Scientific
and Cultural Organization
News
AmphetaDesk News Aggregator
A free, cross platform, open-sourced, syndicated news aggregator.
Use this free software to have conservation news headlines fed
to your desktop.
Environmental
Media Services
A non-profit organization presenting environmental news for journalists.
This site has a useful archive of stories.
Environmental
News Network
An online environmental news service.
Living
on Earth
A weekly environmental news and information program distributed
by National Public Radio.
Organizations
Convention
on Biological Diversity
Forest
History Society
George
Wright Society
International
Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources
Land
Trust Alliance
Lincoln
Institute of Land Policy
Murie
Center
Orion
Society
Pew
Partnership for Civic Change
Pinchot
Institute for Conservation
Sonoran
Institute
The
Conservation Fund
The
Nature Conservancy
QLF Atlantic Center for The Environment
Toolkits
MIT-USGS
Science Impact Collaboration
NPS
Community Toolbox
U.S.
EPA Green Communities Kit
Special
Collections
Evolution
of the Conservation Movement Library of Congress
"The Evolution of the Conservation Movement, 1850-1920 documents
the historical formation and cultural foundations of the movement
to conserve and protect America's natural heritage, through books,
pamphlets, government documents, manuscripts, prints, photographs,
and motion picture footage drawn from the collections of the Library
of Congress. The collection consists of 62 books and pamphlets,140
Federal statutes and Congressional resolutions, 34 additional
legislative documents, excerpts from the Congressional Globe and
the Congressional Record, 360 Presidential proclamations, 170
prints and photographs, 2 historic manuscripts, and 2 motion pictures."
George
Perkins Marsh Online Research Center
"The [University of Vermont] George Perkins Marsh Research
Center provides access to transcriptions and images of selected
letters in Marsh's correspondence. " ...[O]ver 650 letters
from the University ...have [been] transcribed...from the University
manuscript collection and from Marsh's letters located at other
institutions."
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