Natural Heritage Programs • Resource Agencies • Professional, Conservation, and Educational Organizations • Institutions • Biologists • Publications • Online Information Sources
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Federal | ||
| (Battle Mountain, Carson City, Elko, Ely, Southern Nevada, and Winnemucca field offices) | |
| Arizona, California, Idaho, Oregon, Utah | |
| Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest (HTNF), Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit (LTBMU), Inyo National Forest (INYO), Region 4 (R4), Region 5 (R5) | |
| Death Valley National Park, Great Basin National Park, and Lake Mead National Recreation Area | |
| Nevada Field Office (Reno) and Pacific Region (Region 1) Office. See also their Endangered Species Program and on-line recovery plans, which give good background information on listed species. | |
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State | ||
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Contact for information on permits for activities affecting state-listed plant species, cacti, yuccas, and evergreen trees. | ||
Natural Resources Programs | ||
Local | ||
Professional, Conservation, and Educational Organizations: | ||
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Biologists: | ||
Aggregates biological data from multiple sources | ||
Searchable species lists and conservation status data sets for all of North America | ||
USGS; through primarily oriented to biota of the north-central United States, their collection of Northern Prairie Biological Resources includes some data sets of National and Continental significance, particularly for invertebrates. | ||
Working toward enumerating and indexing all known species of plants, animals, fungi and microbes on Earth as the baseline dataset for studies of global biodiversity, and providing a simple access point enabling users to link to other data systems for all groups of organisms. | ||
The Catalogue of Life is the most comprehensive and authoritative global index of species currently available. It consists of a single integrated species checklist and taxonomic hierarchy. The Catalogue holds essential information on the names, relationships and distributions of over 1.6 million species. | ||