Western State College of Colorado

Environmental Studies

Directories & Metasites

• Environmental Resources (Center for Environmental Journalism and the University Libraries,University of Colorado, Boulder)

• EnviroLink Network - "a non-profit organization providing access to thousands of online environmental resources"

• Eco-Portal: The EnvironmentalSustainability.info Source

• Envirofacts Data Warehouse (U.S. Enivironmental Protection Agency) - a single point of access to U.S. EPA environmental data

• FSINFO: Forest Service Database - access to U.S. Forest Service research publications

• Science.gov - a U.S. government science portal
  
• Smithsonian: Ecology and Environment

Organizations

• U.S. Forest Service

  • Descriptions of the Ecoregions of the United States

• UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre - "information for policy and action to conserve the living world"

• Commission for Environmental Cooperation

Gunnison, Colorado and the West

• Bureau of Land Management. Gunnison Office.

• U.S. Forest Service. Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre, and Gunnison National Forests

• Colorado Division of Wildlife - Find wildlife species profiles other issues pertinent to Colorado.

• High Country News

• Natural Diversity Information Source (Colorado Division of Wildlife) - "Colorado's Biological Map and Data Resource"

• Western Waters (Greater Western Library Alliance) - "chronicles water usage and conservation for the Western United States"

• Enviromapper (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency) - "Generate maps of your geographic area that contain environmental information stored in EPA's Envirofacts Warehouse."

Environmental Legislation

• Major Environmental Laws (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency)

• USGS Guide to Federal Environmental Laws and Regulations (U.S. Geological Survey)

• Congressional Research Service Reports (National Library for the Environment)

• League of Conservation Voters

• Center for Wildlife Law (University of New Mexico, School of Law)
  • Federal Wildlife and Related Laws

Alternative Views/Alternative Presses

• AlterNet - "News magazine and online community that creates original journalism and amplifies the best of dozens of other independent media sources."

• Common Dreams - "Breaking news and views for the progressive community." Press releases, editorials, and commentaries with progressive viewpoints reprinted from news sources.

• Grist Magazine: Environmental News and Commentary - Independent and humous articles on environmental issues.

• Worldpress.org - "A nonpartisan magazine whose mission is to foster the international exchange of perspectives and information. ... Contains articles reprinted from the press outside the United States, as well as originally written material."

Special Topics

• Large Dams in the Western United States - What's Good, What's Bad, What's Next? (Kenyon College)

• The UC Atlas of Global Inequality (University of California, Santa Cruz)

• Information for International Agricultural Research (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations)

Updated November 2006
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