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Useful Links
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Links below are current as of April, 2009. This list isn't complete for any specific topic. It simply points to sites that answer questions, or pose interesting new ones, on every visit. We select for pages that are fast, friendly, and free from annoying gimmicks. Caution: the preferred link pages are great, and can easily consume the rest of your day.
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- Selections from Among the Best
- Pace University Land Use Law Center or their Land Use Law Library (often specific to New York).
Pace has given a gift to all living things (and politicians who'd like to be), by clarifying how land use policy works. Bookmark, and read all the Local Leader's Guides.
- Great Lakes Information Network (GLIN) or their recommended links.
- GLIN's site is so big and comprehensive, you may not need other suggestions. It's organized to help you to find what you want by location, or by subject.
- Land Trust Alliance (LTA) or their member regional and local land trusts.
- LTA is a clearinghouse for policy and practice in preserving quality lands. It has member organizations everywhere. A thousand lands trusts can't be wrong.
- Society of Wetland Scientists (SWS) or their recommended links.
- SWS delivers the science on everything wetlandish. Don't worry if you don't understand part of it; the folks destroying wetlands don't understand any of it.
- National Audubon Society (NAS) or their recommended links.
- You already know NAS. Their recommended links run the gamut, and may lead you to data and solutions you couldn't find with ten good search engines.
- Tip of the Mitt Watershed Council (TOMWC).
- One of the best wetland and water resource advocates in North America. They understand what can go wrong, and what can be done better, and have written about all of it.
- Code of the West
- John Clarke, a Commissioner in Larimer County, Colorado has captured the realities missing from your realtor's marketing brochure: "life in the country is different from life in the city."
- Current Sprawl Reports
- The Sierra Club 1999 Sprawl Report reviewed effectiveness of all fifty United States' land use policies. Michigan tied for last place; thank you, John Engler.
- Michigan DEQ Land and Water Management Division (You'll have to search. They keep moving it -- to reduce public input?)
- Speaking of "Fill 'n' Pave" Engler, his direct report puppies Lansing couldn't care less about wetlands. But some local offices may be helpful, in spite of downward political pressure to ignore all we know about wetlands and the law..
...we will review more sites as time allows. Our apologies. Local land use policy and associated legal battles to protect critical habitat have taken priority over this publication.
At the risk of adding another un-edited list of links to the web, we provide our rough draft, below. Perhaps something will appeal to you. All links were current as of 01 Oct 2001.
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Michigan and Great Lakes Data Resources
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Great Lakes Information Network
Tip of the Mitt Watershed Council
Michigan Land Use Institute (see especially publications)
Michigan Government Census and Statistics
Flow Data for Upper Peninsula Streams Tributary to Lake Michigan
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Wetland Definition and Delineation
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US Army Corps of Engineers Wetlands Delineation Manual
US Army Corps of Engineers District Regulatory Offices
US Army Corps of Engineers Detroit District
WetNet Wetland Resources (some specific to Texas)
Types of Wetlands and Their Roles in the Watershed
Hydric Soils Technical Notes
EPA Office of Wetlands
Association of State Wetland Managers' Book Service
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Wetland Flora and Fauna
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Midwestern Wetland Flora
Center for Aquatic and Invasive Plants
National Wetlands Inventory
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Species, Biodiversity, and Ecology
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National Biological Survey and Online Biological Information
USFWS Habitat Assessment
USFWS Online Conservation Journals
USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service Plants Database
Northern Prairie Biological Resources
Ecological Society of America
Endangered Species of the Great Lakes
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Agriculture
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USDA: Water Resources and Agriculture
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Academic and Research Resources
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Google Scholar, for academic research
Science Direct, academic journals
Congressional Research Service Reports
Earth's Biggest Environment Search Engine
Forest Resources Institute
Code of Federal Regulations On Line
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Natural Resource Jobs and Employment
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Science Magazine Jobs
USGS Job Announcements
Cyber-Sierra: Jobs in Water, Wetland and Fisheries
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Other Links
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American Geophysical Union
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