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Natural Heritage Programs • Resource Agencies • Professional, Conservation, and Educational Organizations • Institutions • Biologists • Publications • Online Information Sources

Natural Heritage Programs and Conservation Data Centers:
NatureServe and Local Natural Heritage Programs
Arizona Natural Heritage Program
California Natural Diversity Data Base (CNDDB)
Idaho Natural Heritage Program
Oregon Biodiversity Information Center
Utah Conservation Data Center
Resource Agencies:
Federal
Bureau of Land Management (BLM) in Nevada	(Battle Mountain, Carson City, Elko, Ely, Southern Nevada, and Winnemucca field offices)
Bureau of Land Management in other surrounding states:	Arizona, California, Idaho, Oregon, Utah
U.S. Forest Service (USFS)	Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest (HTNF), Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit (LTBMU), Inyo National Forest (INYO), Region 4 (R4), Region 5 (R5)
National Park Service (NPS)	Death Valley National Park, Great Basin National Park, and Lake Mead National Recreation Area
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS)	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.
Nevada National Security Site (formerly Nevada Test Site)
National Gap Analysis Program (GAP)
State
Nevada Department of Agriculture	Noxious Weeds Program
Nevada Department of Conservation and Natural Resouces
Nevada Division of Forestry (NDF)	Contact for information on permits for activities affecting state-listed plant species, cacti, yuccas, and evergreen trees.
Nevada Department of Wildlife (NDOW)
University of Nevada Cooperative Extension	Natural Resources Programs
Local
Clark County Comprehensive Planning Division
Tahoe Regional Planning Agency
Professional, Conservation, and Educational Organizations:
American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS)
Las Vegas Springs Preserve
Natural Areas Association
NatureServe
Society for Conservation Biology
The Nature Conservancy
The Nature Conservancy of Nevada (state chapter)
Institutions:
California Academy of Sciences
Desert Research Institute (DRI)
Nevada State Museum, Carson City
Nevada State Museum, Las Vegas
The University and Community College System of Nevada
Biologists:
Taxonomic Resources and Expertise Directory (TRED)
Online Information Sources:
Encyclopedia of Life	Aggregates biological data from multiple sources
NatureServe Explorer	Searchable species lists and conservation status data sets for all of North America
Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center	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.
Slater Museum of Natural History Biodiversity Resources at University of Puget Sound
Species 2000	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.
Catalogue of Life	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.

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