ESRI Conservation Program Resources:

Government Agencies Index

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(ECP and CTSP grantees and other sites of interest for conservation geograpy, mapping and GIS. )

General US Govt Programs

The Federal Geographic Data Committee(FGDC) . g

FGDC National Geospatial Data Clearinghouse . g

FGDC National Vegetation Classification System Draft Vegetation Standards. . g

Guide to On-line & mostly free U.S. Geospatial and Attribute data . g

Inter-American Biodiversity Information Network (IABIN) . g

Inter-American Geospatial Data Network (IGDN) . g

National Biological Information Infrastructure (NBII) . g

The National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI) . g

NSDI Framework of digital geospatial data . g

USDA Information Technology Center (ITC) . g

General US Govt Agencies

US Bureau of the Census, Tiger Mapping Service: . g

US Bureau of Reclamation, Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Group . g

US Army Corps of Engineers

US Army Corps of Engineers node of the National Geospatial Data Clearinghouse . g

US Army Corps of Engineers Geospatial Data Center . g

US Bureau of Reclamation Federal geospatial information sources:

US Environmental Protection Agency National GIS Program . g

US EPA GIS spatial data library system . g

US EPA GIS Tools . g

USGS National Mapping Information . g

US NRCS NSDI Node . g

USFWS National Wetlands Inventory (NWI) . g

US Bureau of Indian Affairs

US BIA Geographic Data Service Center (GDSC) . g

US Bureau of Land Management

US Bureau of Land Management . g

US BLM Geospatial Information Center . g

US BLM Geographic Coordinate Data Base (GCDB) . g

US BLM National Applied Resource Science Center . g

US BLM Interior Columbia Basin Ecosystem Management Project. g

US BLM MetaData and WWW Mapping Home Page . g

US BLM Tool to Convert GPS data to ArcInfo coverages . g

US Environmental Protection Agency

US Environmental Protection Agency . g

US Environmental Protection Agency National GIS Program . g

US EPA Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Program . g

US EPA Environmental Quality Web Site . g

US EPA GIS spatial data library system . g

US EPA GIS Tools . g

US EPA EMAP National Environmental Monitoring Initiative . g

US EPA National GIS System . g

US EPA Node of the National Geospatial Data Clearinghouse . g

US EPA State of the Environment Reports: . g

US EPA Smart Growth and Livable Communities: . g

US EPA Spatial Data Library System (ESDLS) . g

US Fish & Wildlife Service

U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service GIS Home Page . g

US FWS National Wetlands Inventory . g

US Forest Service

USDA Forest Service Databases . g

US Forest Service Forest Inventory and Analysis National Database Retrieval System . g

US Geological Survey

US Geological Survey . g

USGS Land Resources Section . g

USGS Information Management Section . g

US National Park Service (see under ECP Parks list)

US National Imagery & Mapping Agency

US National Imagery & Mapping Agency . g

US NIMA Digital Terrain Elevation Data (DTED®) Level 0 . g

US Natural Resources Conservation Service

US Natural Resources Conservation Service . g

US NRCS Data Clearinghouse . g

USGS Biological Resources Division/National Biological Survey

USGS Biological Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey (NBS). . g

USGS BRD Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center . g

USGS BRD California Science Center . g

USGS BRD Cascadia Field Station . g

USGS BRD Florida Caribbean Science Center . g

USGS BRD Glacier Bay Field Station, Ak, e98 . g

USGS BRD Northern Prairie Science Center . g

USGS BRD Patuxent Wildlife Research Center, Maryland . g

USGS BRD Patuxent Wildlife Population Information--Management and Transfer . g

USGS BRD (NBS) Software FTP Site . g

USGS Center for Biological Informatics . g

USGS CLIMET Program . g

USGS BRD Gap Analysis Program

USGS BRD Gap Analysis Program, University of Idaho e93. . g

USGS BRD California GAP Analysis Project Bulletin . g

USGS BRD: Washington Gap Analysis home page . g

Data, Data Access and the Web

Promoting a Free Access or Minimal Cost of Dissemination Arrangement for Government-Held Geographic Information Systems Data . gp

Information Center for the Environment: Public Access to Natural Resource Data . gp

Your Right to Know in the UK . gp

Papers

Applying GAP Analysis Data to Land Use Planning and Development of a Bioinfo Node . gp

ArcInfo Applications in the Antarctic Program of the National Science Foundation . gp

Computerization of the Biological Survey Locality File and geographical coding of the Vertebrate Collections in the National Museum, . gp

CONSERVATION GAP: Applying GAP Analysis to Small Area Management: Two Projects from Idaho . gp

Implementation of the Pacific Northwest Forest Plan: An Example of Interorganizational GIS Coordination . gp

Interactive CD Product for the National Biological Survey Gap Analysis Program . gp

Interagency Cooperation in Info Management: Why, Why Not, and some ideas on How . gp

Ecosystem Characterization and Assessment in the Interior Columbia River Basin . gp

-Introduction to the Gap Analysis Program (GAP) . gp

Louisiana GAP Analysis Project: Usage of Auxiliary Data Sets . gp

Procedures for collection, analysis, and display of data collected at several geographic scales . gp

A Proposed Protocol for Identifying Potential Research Natural Areas with Gap Analysis Data . gp

The Southern Appalachian Assessment GIS . gp

Supporting Search for Spatial Data on the Internet: What it means to be a Clearinghouse Node . gp

Using GIS for Automated Selection of Significant Natural Areas of California . gp

The Wilderness Society's Center for Landscape Analysis: Outreach and Cooperation Efforts . gp

All text by the respective organizations, January 2, 1997

Compilation & web design: Charles Convis, ESRI Conservation Program, April 2, 1996