Nevada Natural Heritage Program
Department of Conservation and Natural Resources
901 South Stewart Street, Suite 5002 • Carson City, Nevada 89701-5245
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LINKS TO INFORMATION RESOURCES
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Natural Heritage Programs • Resource Agencies • Professional, Conservation, and Educational Organizations • Institutions • Biologists • Publications • Online Information Sources
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Natural Heritage Programs and Conservation Data Centers:
Resource Agencies:
- Bureau of Land Management (BLM) in Nevada (Battle Mountain, Carson City, Elko, Ely, Las Vegas, and Winnemucca field offices)
- Bureau of Land Management in California (Bishop Field Office, Eagle Lake RA Susanville, Surprise RA Cedarville)
- Bureau of Land Management in other surrounding states: Arizona and Idaho
- Clark County Environmental Planning Division
- Ecoregions Project
of the Environmental Protection Agency, Western Ecology Division, National Health and Environmental Effects Research Laboratory.
- Federal Interagency Committee on the Management of Noxious and Exotic Weeds
- Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest (HTNF), U.S. Forest Service (USFS), Region 4 (HTNF site now includes list of current inventory, planning, and monitoring projects, with eventual links planned directly to NEPA documentation)
- Inyo National Forest, U.S. Forest Service (USFS), Region 5
- Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit (LTBMU), U.S. Forest Service (USFS), Region 5
- National Biological Information Infrastructure (NBII; links to sources of biological information worldwide and in Nevada)
- National Gap Analysis Program (GAP)
- National Park Service (NPS; Nevada units are Death Valley National Park, Great Basin National Park, and Lake Mead National Recreation Area)
- Native Plant Conservation Initiative -- see Plant Conservation Alliance
- Nevada Biodiversity Initiative (see also U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service)
- Nevada Department of Agriculture (contact Division of Plant Industry and the Nevada Weed Action Committee for information on noxious weeds)
- Nevada Division of Forestry (NDF; contact for information on permits for activities affecting state-listed plant species, cacti, yuccas, and evergreen trees)
- Nevada Division of Wildlife (NDOW; contact Ralph Phenix, 775-688-1565, for information on raptor species)
- Nevada Test Site (NTS), U.S. Department of Energy
- Plant Conservation Alliance (formerly called the Native Plant Conservation Initiative, a consortium of ten federal government member agencies and over 110 non-federal cooperators representing a various disciplines within the conservation field; includes information on alien-plant programs and activities)
- Tahoe Regional Planning Agency
- U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS), Nevada Field Office (Reno) and Region 1 Office. See also their Endangered Species Program and on-line recovery plans, which give good background information on listed species.
- U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), Biological Resources Division (BRD; formerly National Biological Survey)
- University of Nevada Cooperative Extension (includes current information on Nevada invasive species) You can also try this alternate link
Professional, Conservation, and Educational Organizations:
Institutions:
Biologists:
Publications:
Online Information Sources:
- BONAP/TAMU Synonymized Checklist of the Vascular Flora of the United States, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands 1998 (provides information on all U.S. plant names and synonyms in the Biota Of North America Project database, with links to known sources of maps, images, and further data for each taxon)
- Bureau of Land Management GIS home page (GIS information and links to data and other sources)
- Bureau of Land Management FTP site for GIS software and data
- California Native Plant Society (CNPS) Inventory 6th edition
on-line
- CalFlora (provides access to information about all 8375 currently recognized vascular plants in California, including over 670,000 records of plant observations and 20,000 photographs.)
- Department of Energy publications (full text of most Nevada Test Site and other DOE reports)
- Flora of North America Project and its on-line volumes (FNA)
- International Organization for Plant Information (IOPI; includes a working Global Plant Checklist)
- Montana Rare Plant Field Guide
- Native Plant Information Network
of the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center
- 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.
- Penstemon Web Site of Andrea Wolfe, Ohio State University
- Plant distribution web site directory (Helsinki, Finland - world-wide links to sources of plant distribution data)
- Press Clips from the Nevada Department of Conservation and Natural Resources covering various environmental topics.
- PRISM Climate Mapping Program at Oregon State University (paper and free digital climatic maps derived from point climate data modeled for elevation and other parameters; precipitation currently available for 48 US states)
- 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.
- U.C. Davis Astragalus web site
- USDA PLANTS National Database (standardized information on all plant species in the U.S.A.)
- US Geologic Survey Geographic Names Information System (GNIS)
- US Geologic Survey GIS information (node of the National Spatial Data Infrastructure)
- Utah Automated Geographic Reference Center (clearinghouse for Utah GIS data and information)
- Utah Endemic and Rare Plants Report (includes recent information on many Nevada
at-risk plants)
- Utah Inventory of Sensitive Vertebrate and Invertebrate Species: A Progress Report
- Utah Vascular Plant Atlas (Utah distribution maps for all vascular plant taxa found in the state)
- Virtual Clearinghouse for Nevada Geographic Information (Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology)
- W. M. Keck Earth Sciences and Mining Research Information Center (Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology -- includes access to diverse downloadable GIS data for Nevada)
- Washington Natural Heritage Program Field Guide to Selected Rare Plants
- Weeds on the Web from The Nature Conservancy's Wildland Invasive Species Program
- Western Regional Climate Center (climate and weather data for hundreds of reporting stations)
- Wyoming Rare Plant Field Guide on the Northern Prairie Science Center web site
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