Check out these websites…
To learn
more about BayScapes, habitats, native plants, invasive plants and
related topics, check out these sites. Every effort has
been made to keep this list as current as possible. You can help
by contacting the Web Manager if you know of
a change, or discover a broken link.
Programs, Organizations, Plants, and more…
Alliance
for Chesapeake Bay (BayScapes page and online
factsheets):
http://www.acb-online.org/
National Wildlife Federation (NWF):
http://www.nwf.org/
NWF's Backyard Habitats Program:
http://www.nwf.org/backyardwildlifehabitat/
NWF's Schoolyard Habitats Program:
http://www.nwf.org/schoolyardhabitats/
Natural Resources Conservation Service's (NRCS) Backyard Conservation
program (similar to BayScapes principles):
http://www.nrcs.usda.gov/feature/backyard/
The Wild Ones, an organization of natural landscapers:
http://www.for-wild.org/
The Wild Ones Handbook ("how to" garden for wildlife):
http://www.epa.gov/greenacres/wildones/
Environmental Protection Agency's green landscaping info, examples,
links:
Mid-Atlantic http://www.epa.gov/reg3esd1/garden/
Great Lakes http://www.epa.gov/greenacres/
Native Plants, Invasive Plants, Technical
Assistance Resources, and more…
U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service's Native Plants for Wildlife Habitat and Conservation Landscaping: Chesapeake Bay Watershed:
http://www.nps.gov/plants/pubs/chesapeake/
U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service & National Park Service's Plant Invaders of Mid Atlantic Natural Areas:
http://www.nps.gov/plants/alien/pubs/midatlantic/
Native Plant Conservation Initiative:
http://www.nps.gov/plants
Plant Invaders (Alien Plants Working Group):
http://www.nps.gov/plants/alien
The Nature Conservancy (TNC), invasive plants and other links:
http://tncweeds.ucdavis.edu/esadocs.html
Maryland
Dept. of Natural Resources (DNR):
http://www.dnr.state.md.us/
Maryland DNR's
Natural Heritage information, with links to state threatened and
endangered species lists: http://www.dnr.state.md.us/wildlife/nhpintro.asp
Maryland DNR's
invasive plant list: http://www.dnr.state.md.us/wildlife/ieplists.html
U.S. Dept of Agriculture—Natural Resources Conservation Service (USDA-NRCS)
Plants Projects, with links to PLANTS database (data and pictures),
VegSpec plants guide, and more:
http://plants.usda.gov/
USDA-NRCS National Plant Materials Center—offers
plant species factsheets, plant and seed source information, publications,
and may add plant/seed vendors:
http://plant-materials.nrcs.usda.gov/
Maryland Native Plant Society:
http://www.mdflora.org
Virginia Native Plant Society:
http://www.vnps.org/
VNPS's Alien Invasive Plant project:
http://www.vnps.org/invasive.html
Noxious Weeds of North America (NRCS & USGS):
http://invasivespecies.nbii.gov/speciesinfo/399_list.html
830 woody wetland plants, Univ. of California, Berkeley:
http://www.mip.berkeley.edu/meka/index.html
Virginia Dept of Forestry:
http://state.vipnet.org/dof/index.html
Plant America, a search engine that finds plant-related sites:
http://www.plantamerica.com
The Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center—info
and links regarding native wildflowers, other native plant organizations,
native plant events, and more:
http://www.wildflower.org/
Butterfly gardening—use your preferred search engine to find one
of many "butterflies" sites. One example is
The Butterfly Website
at: http://butterflywebsite.com
BioControl Network (Integrated Pest Management):
http://www.biconet.com/index.html
MD Cooperative Extension Home & Garden Information Center:
http://www.hgic.umd.edu
Howard County (Maryland) Master Gardeners (and Louisa Thompson's "Primer
On Native Plant Ecology and Gardening") at http://www.agnr.umd.edu/howard/mg/natcont.htm
MD Cooperative Extension—Bay Issues, Native Plants, BayWise Gardening: http://www.inform.umd.edu/EdRes/Colleges/AGNR/Fac/PRicciuti/nativeplants.html
Aquatic Nuisance Species:
http://www.anstaskforce.gov/appxd.htm
Chesapeake Bay Information, and more...
EPA Chesapeake Bay Program:
http://www.chesapeakebay.net
U.S. Army's Chesapeake Bay Program info:
http://www.hqda.army.mil/acsimweb/env/cbi/
Army
publication, "Restoring and Protecting the Chesapeake Bay—
A Dept of Defense Initiative:
http://www.denix.osd.mil/denix/Public/News/Earthday98/Chesapeake/bay.html
Watershed protection techniques (professional journal):
http://www.stormwatercenter.net
Chesapeake
Bay Trust (grants from MD State tax checkoff funds):
http://www.chesapeakebaytrust.org
Poplar
Island Restoration Project:
http://www.nab.usace.army.mil/projects/Maryland/PoplarIsland/
and
http://www.fws.gov/r9dhcbfa/success.htm
Schoolyard Habitats, Community Programs, Environmental
Education, and more...
National Wildlife Federation's Schoolyard Habitats Program (with
links to MANY other
similar initiatives):
http://www.nwf.org/schoolyardhabitats/
Community-based
ecology site (Evergreen Foundation, Canada):
http://www.evergreen.ca/ (this
is also a schoolyard habitats resource)
Wicked Big Puddles / Student Vernal Pool Association:
http://vernalpool.org/vernal_1.htm
Renewable Energy Education Program, Solar Energy International:
http://www.solarenergy.org/
National Library for the Environment—contains
free, useful information resources:
1. Current objective, nonpartisan
issue reports;
2. Environmental Education Programs and Resources;
3.
Environmental Laws—local, state, federal and international;
4. An
in-depth resource on Population-Environment Linkages;
5. A Virtual Library
of Ecology and Biodiversity;
6. Information on environmental conferences
and meetings;
7. Environmental Careers and Jobs
http://www.cnie.org/
List compiled by U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, Chesapeake
Bay Field Office, updated August 2004
—call (410) 573-4593 for more BayScapes info.
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