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The following links are organized by category or theme and are included here for your reference.  Use this site for ideas of topics and data sources which you may find of interest for your projects.  If you have any additions you feel would be useful for this list, please e-mail them to me at young_m@roanestate.edu.

(NOTE: The symbol indicates an item that has been added in the last week)

Last Updated: 01/17/2006

Data Sources (by Category or Theme):

Federal Natural Resource Agencies:

bulletUSDA Forest Service - Home Page (USFS)
bulletNational Park Service - Home Page (NPS)
bulletGIS Data - National Park Service (NPS)
bulletYellowstone - Old Faithful Web Cam (NPS)
bulletBureau of Land Management - Home Page (BLM)
bulletU.S. Fish & Wildlife Service - Home Page (FWS)
bulletNatural Resources Conservation Service - NRCS
bulletTennessee Valley Authority - Maps & Photo Records (TVA)

Tennessee Natural Resource Agencies:

bulletTennessee Wildlife Resources Agency - GIS Site (TWRA)
bulletTennessee Division of Forestry  (TDF)
bulletTennessee State Parks (Dept. of Environment & Conservation)
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TN Natural Areas Program

University Natural Resource Projects:

bulletLandscape Analysis Lab - University of the South

Forest Fire Related Sites:

bulletCalifornia Burning - Geospatial Solutions, March 2004
bulletNational Interagency Fire Center
bulletU.S. Drought Monitor
bulletMODIS Fire Imagery

Regional Natural Resource Projects:

bulletColumbia Basin Ecosystem Management Project (USFS)
bulletSierra Nevada Ecosystem Project
bulletSouthern Appalachian Man and the Biosphere (SAMAB)
bulletSouthern Forest Resource Assessment (SFRA - USFS)

Ecosystem Modeling:

bulletForest Stand Dynamics Simulation - FVS, SVS, Suppose (Utah State)
bulletGAP Analysis Project - Brief Description (USGS)
bulletGAP Analysis Project - More Detailed Description (U of Idaho)
bulletNational GAP Analysis Project - Home Page (U of Idaho)

Wilderness and Roadless Information:

bulletUS Federal Wilderness Areas (NWPS)
bulletRoadless Area Conservation (USFS)

Downloadable Natural Resource Publications:

bulletOnline Fire Publications (USFS - Rocky Mtn. Research Station)
bulletUSFS Research Publications
bulletForest Statistics for Tennessee, 1999 (PDF Download site) (USFS)

Other Misc. Natural Resource Web Sites:

bulletKentucky-Tennessee Society of American Foresters (K-T SAF)