Federal Agencies

	w	U.S. Geological Survey
	w	Environmental Protection Agency
	w	EPA Region 2 Wetlands Protection Program
	w	EPA Region 10
	w	EPA Water Quality Standards
	w	American Indian Environmental Office
	w	NOAA
	w	U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
	w	Natural Resources Conservation Service (links to USDA, NACD, FSA, RD, FS, CSREES)
	w	NRCS Wetlands Reserve Program
	w	U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
	w	Wetlands Program - Environment - FHWA

State Natural Resource Agencies [For a complete list of links to states with wetland programs click here

	w	California Department of Water Resources
	w	Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection
	w	Florida Department of Environmental Protection
	w	Indiana Department of Environmental Management Office of Water Quality
	w	Maine Natural Resources Protection Act
	w	Maryland Wetlands and Waterways Program
	w	Massachussetts Department of Environmental Protection: Waters, Wastewaters, & Wetlands
	w	Massachussetts Office of Coastal Zone Management
	w	Michigan Department of Environmental Quality Wetands Protection
	w	Minnesota Board of Water and Soil Resources Wetlands Program
	w	Missouri's Wetland's and Their Management
	w	New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services Wetlands Bureau
		w	NH Wetland Fact Sheets
		w	NH Wetlands Council
	w	New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection Freshwater Wetlands Program
	w	New Mexico Wetlands Conservation Plan
	w	New York State Department of Environmental Conservation
	w	Oregon Division of State Lands Wetlands Resources
	w	Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection Hotlink "Wetlands"
	w	Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management Office of Water Resources
	w	State of Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation
	w	Vermont Department of Forests, Parks and Recreation
	w	Vermont Department of Environmental Conservation
	w	Virginia Department of Environmental Quality
	w	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources
		w	WI DNR Wetland Compensatory Mitigation program

National Program and Research Centers

	w	National Wetlands Inventory
	w	National Wetlands Research Center
	w	EPA: Office of Wetlands, Oceans, and Watersheds
	w	EPA: Water Qulaity Standards
	w	USGS Scientific Assessment and Strategy Team (Upper Mississippi Lower Missouri)
	w	USGS National Marine and Coastal Geology Program
	w	USGS Water Resources Information Homepage
	w	USGS National Wildlife Health Center
	w	National Water Quality Assessment Program
	w	Wetlands Research Program (Army Corps of Engineers)
	w	ACOE Regulatory Program
	w	Hydraulics Laboratory (Army Corps of Engineers)
	w	Natural Heritage Network EDUCATION AND SANCTUARIES
	w	Surf Your Watershed (EPA)
	w	Kennedy Space Center Ecological Resources
	w	Jug Bay Wetlands Sanctuary, Maryland

Non-Governmental Organizations

	w	Society of Wetlands Scientists
	w	Association of State Floodplain Managers
	w	Local Government Environmental Action Network
	w	National Wildlife Federation: Wetlands
	w	Ducks Unlimited Canada
	w	New York State Wetlands Forum
	w	American Whitewater Affiliation
	w	International Rivers Network
	w	Wetlands International
	w	Restore America's Estuaries
	w	Playa Lakes Joint Venture
	w	Center for Watershed Protection (Added 1-10-06)

County Governemnt Agencies

	w	Westchester County (NY) Department of Planning - information related to wetlands; Aquatic Restoration Program, which includes wetland restoration projects.

Other Links and Directory Pages

	w	HerpDigest
	w	American Society of International Law
	w	Ecological Society of America
	w	Wetland Hot Links From OSU's Olentangy River Wetlands Research Park
	w	WETNET - Texas Wetland Information Network
	w	World-Wide Wetland, Hydrology and Coastal Links
	w	WetKit A Canadian Online Wetlands Toolkit
	w	City of Fort Worth, TX Dept. of Environmental Management
	w	Waste-Water Web Links
	w	Conservation, Diversity and Ecological
	w	The American Planning Association
	w	Appalachian Regional Commission
	w	Council on Licensure, Enforcement, And Regulation
	w	Great Lakes Commission
	w	International City/County Management Association
	w	National Association of Attorney's General
	w	National Association of Counties
	w	National Association of County and City Health Officials
	w	National Association of Local Government Environmental Professionals
	w	National Association of Regional Councils
	w	National Civic League
	w	National Governors Association
	w	U.S. Conference of Mayors
	w	Mid-Atlantic Regional Assessment of Climate Change Impacts
	w	Acclimations Newsletter of the National Assessment of the Potential Consequences of Climate Change
	w	Endangered Species and Wetlands Reports
	w	Web-Agri Agricultural Search Engine
	w	Hancor (Commercial) - supplier of wetland structures and pipe systems for water management and conservation projects
	w	Environmental Concern
	w	Wetland Wizard - an online database for organizing wetland delineation projects, recording delineation data, and printing wetland delineation data forms.
	w	Reptiles Directory
	w	Natural Capital Resources Foundation - achieves wetland preservation and restoration through “marsh to market” initiatives.

WETLAND TRAINING
Also see http://www.aswm.org/calendar/calendar.htm

	w	Institute for Wetland & Environmental Education & Research, Inc.
	w	Richard Chinn Environmental Training, Inc.
	w	Portland State University School of Extended Studies
	w	Duncan & Duncan Wetland and Endangered Species Training
	w	Olentangy River Wetland Research Park, The Ohio State University

Volunteer Monitoring

	w	"Volunteer Wetland Monitoring: An Introduction and Resource Guide" (EPA 843-B-00-001) May 2002

Smart Growth

	w	Smart Growth Website An online resource designed to facilitate and support smart growth development including smart growth policies, technical tools, etc.
	w	New Community Design to the Rescue – Fulfilling Another American Dream From the National Governor’s Association. Presents new policy solutions to sprawl that are aimed at correcting problems at the local government level, addresses health, transportation, housing, energy, and environmental issues, and includes an NGA checklist for evaluating projects, places, and communities for their consistency with smart growth principles.
	w	Development at the Urban Fringe and Beyond: Impacts on Agriculture and Rural Land Describes the forces driving development, its character and impacts on agriculture and rural communities, the means available to channel and control growth, and the pros and cons of potential Federal roles.

Watersheds

	w	Center for Watershed Protection
	w	EPA Watershed Training Opportunities

Economic Values

	w	Pricing the Priceless: Cost-Benefit Analysis of Environmental Protection

Bioassessment

	w	"Methods for Evaluating Wetland Condition"

OH DSW Release Wetlands Bioassessment Technical Report

11/29/01. A new technical report is available on Ohio Division of Surface Water’s Wetlands Bioassessment program page: Vegetation Indices of Biotic Integrity (VIBI) for Wetlands: ecoregional, hydrogeomorphic, and plant community comparisons with preliminary wetland aquatic life use designations (PDF 781K) Visit http://www.epa.state.oh.us/dsw/wetlands/wetland_bioasses.html

HGM

	w	ERDC/EL TR-02-4 "A Regional Guidebook for Applying the Hydrogeomorphic Approach to Assessing Wetland Functions of Selected Regional Wetland Subclasses, Yazoo Basin, Lower Mississippi River Alluvial Valley"
	w	ERDC/EL TR-02-3 "Hydrogeomorphic Approach to Assessing Wetland Functions: Guidelines for Developing Regional Guidebooks; Chapter 1, Introduction and Overview of the Hydrogeomorphic Approach"
	w	"Hydrogeomorphic Approach to Assessing Wetland Functions: Guidelines for Developing Regional Guidebooks" Chapter 4: Developing Assessment Models byR. Daniel Smith and James S. Wakeley http://www.wes.army.mil/el/wetlands/pdfs/trel01-30.pdf
	w	"Hydrogeomorphic Approach to Assessing Wetland Functions: Guidelines for Developing Regional Guidebooks" Chapter 3: Developing a Reference Wetland System byR. Daniel Smith http://www.wes.army.mil/el/wetlands/pdfs/trel01-29.pdf
	w	"Hydrogeomorphic Approach to Assessing Wetland Functions: Guidelines for Developing Regional Guidebooks" Chapter 7: Verifying, Field Testing, and Validating Assessment Models byJames S. Wakeley and R. Daniel Smith http://www.wes.army.mil/el/wetlands/pdfs/trel01-31.pdf

Invasive Species

	w	National Aquatic Nuisance Species Clearinghouse An international library of research, public policy, and outreach education publications pertaining to invasive marine and fresh water aquatic nuisance species in North America. Home of North America's most extensive library of publications related to the spread, biology, impacts and control of zebra mussels.
	w	Weeds on the Web http://tncweeds.ucdavis.edu/ The Wildland Invasive Species Program of The Nature Conservancy (TNC) hosts this site on the invasive plants currently threatening the biodiversity of wild lands in the US. Information on weeds (what they are, which ones are worst), weed control methods, and suggestions for educators including action in lesson plans. Also at the site are lists of effective weed tools, weeds in the news, and links to weed-related events. [LXP]
	w	Invasive Species Council and Invasive Species Advisory Committee

Global Invasive Species Database – ISSG

http://www.issg.org/database/welcome/ "The newly online (but still under construction) Global Invasive Species Database was developed by the Invasive Species Specialist Group (ISSG) . . . The entry page of the Website offers background information on invasive species and instructions on how to use the database. A section entitled 100 of the worst (ranging from Rat to Purple Loosestrife) gives viewers an idea of the type of information that will be included in the database, both in terms of expected detail and organizational structure of the database. Types of information provided for each species include Ecology, Distribution, Habitat Matches, References, and Contacts. In addition, a Predictive feature allows viewers to predict the expansion of invasive species, and the Early Warning System matches habitats that the species has already invaded with "other similar habitats around the world." Although still under construction, this database should be a powerful tool for researchers and educators, once completed.

Plant ID

	w	CBF Field Guide to Underwater Grasses A simple but effective identification key for the Chesapeake’s underwater grasses.

USGS Has Regional Plant Books Online

[12/14/00, posted to ELI-list serve] The USGS has produced a series of regional plant books for use by their field staff. They are not complete in the sense of being a flora, but have most of the common species and many of the important rare ones. The guides are available online and also can be purchased, or downloaded for use offline (BIG files!). For more try the links below. You also could go to the USGS biological resources website (http://biology.usgs.gov). Northeast http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/resource/1999/neflor/neflor.htm Minnesota and Wisconsin http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/resource/1998/mnplant/mnplant.htm Midwest http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/resource/othrdata/plntguid/PLNTGUID.HTM You might also try http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/resource/resource.htm or http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/resource/taxa_P.htm

Plants Database

EPA Internet Newsbrief, 3/3/00. The PLANTS Database is a single source of standardized information about plants. This database focuses on plants of the U.S. and its territories and includes: names, checklists, automated tools, identification information, species abstracts, distributional data, crop information, plant symbols, plant growth data, plant materials information, plant links, references, and other plant information. The database is searchable by common or scientific names.

Photographs

	w	Free Conservation and Natural Resources Photos Online About 1,500 conservation-related images that can be downloaded, organized in a database that allows users to search 54 categories from 30 States using key categories like buffers, conservation tillage, water quality and wildlife. JPEGs and TIFFs

Dam Removal

	w	Dam Removal: A Citizen's Guide to Restoring Rivers Provides information and guidance about how to restore free and healthy flowing rivers through selective dam removal

Stormwater

	w	National Stormwater BMP Database
	w	Stormwater Strategies Second Edition The manual highlights successful U.S. storm water control programs. A widely accepted set of storm water management strategies with the primary goals of reducing the amount of urban runoff, improving water quality, and protecting public health using low cost techniques distributed throughout the community. Combines a variety of storm water management approaches into a flexible, cost-efficient, environmentally effective system that provides a variety of other economic, environmental and aesthetic benefits.
	w	Online Stormwater Training And Certification

New Website on Nonpoint Source Capacity Building

This website, put together by the Nonpoint Source Capacity Building and Funding Work Group (a joint State-EPA workgroup), provides watershed groups and local governments links to technical tools for scientific support, engineering support, information technology, assistance with legal issues, project management, outreach, and planning support. It also provides links to legal resources for activities such as permitting, enforcement, contracting, fund raising, and resource management. For additional information visit the website at http://www.epa.gov/owow/nps/partnership.html

Riparian

	w	"Riparian Areas: Functions and Strategies for Management"

Journals and Online Research

	w	Journal of Great Lakes Research
	w	Atlas of the Reptiles and Amphibians of Vermont
	w	Ramsar Wetland Data Gateway
	w	Land Survey Information (LSI) Web site - provides users with geographic information from the BLM's Geographic Coordinate Data Base (GCDB) representing the Public Land Survey System (PLSS) of the United States
	w	Biological literature on wetland and riparian habitats [limited to North America non-tidal environments and the years 1990-2000] Look under the header, "Literature Reviews." The 217-page report downloadable at this web site is organized by major taxon (one chapter each). Within each of these chapters, there is a compilation of North American literature covering various stressors. Much public attention has been given to physical loss of wetlands worldwide, but these reports call attention to losses to wetland quality, as reflected by biological communities.
	w	TerraFly Enables GIS Image Viewing Online, Seamlessly - Web-based application that allows users to view Geographic Information Systems (GIS) images. Enables users to view the images continuously and seamlessly, giving the user a feeling of "flying over" the photographed land areas. Different resolutions are available, and the interface is extremely slick though somewhat complicated initially.
	w	"Effects of Management Practices on Wetland Birds" A series of literature syntheses containing information on the habitat needs and management response of many species of North American wetland birds.
	w	Waterfowl Population Estimates and Trends by Species & Region (1997) Presents crucial baseline information on population numbers and trends for every waterbird population in the world. It includes estimates for 1,924 populations of all 840 species in the world recognized as waterbirds.
	w	Great Lakes Environmental Directory An extensive on-line resource of environmental information related to the Great Lakes basin. The Directory includes an on-line library of hundreds of Great Lakes environmental articles and contact information for over 1,000 organizations. Also included are Great Lakes activist resources (grants, free environmental software/ downloads, advocacy tools and other environmental resources).
	w	National Wetlands Biogeochemical Database (NWBD) Serves as a reference data set for biogeochemical parameters at different regional, community, and temporal scales. Data contributors are invited to participate using NWBD's on-site contact information.
	w	American Bryophyte Collection More than 100,000 specimens of bryophytes from Central America, Mexico and the West Indies will be added by 2004. The catalog contains 200,000 specimens from Canada, Greenland and the United States and is available on the Web.
	w	NC Atlas of Freshwater Mussels and Endangered Fish
	w	WETMAAP - Wetlands Education Through Maps And Aerial Photography A geographic approach that combines aerial photography, topographic maps, and manual & computerized Geographic Information Systems (GIS) for wetland habitat assessment. These WETMAAP materials provide the chance to explore wetland issues through ten representative wetland sites in the US. WETMAAP case study sites, workshop materials, and data resources are available on the website. The site also provides teachers materials such as slide shows, lesson plans and tests.
	w	Digital Representations of Tree Species Range Maps The Earth Surface Dynamics section of the USGS provides this excellent collection of graphics, depicting range maps for more than 100 common North American tree species. From _Abies amabilis_ to _Yucca brevifolia_, these color maps may be viewed or downloaded (.pdf, .zip, tgz). Most of the ranges depicted here were digitized by Elbert L. Little, Jr. (USDA Forest Service) for vegetation-climate modeling studies; graphics are best viewed as downloaded files.
	w	Conservation and Environmental Maps Web Site Historic and recent maps show ‘changes in the landscape, including natural and man-made features, recreational and wilderness areas, geology, topography, wetland area, vegetation, and wildlife.’ The site may be searched by keyword or browsed by Subject Index, Creator Index, Geographic Location Index, or Title Index.
	w	National Water Information System (NWIS) Allows users to access several hundred million pieces of archival and real-time water data
	w	ABI and TNC Post Reptile and Amphibian Data Onto Website From Larry Master, Chief Zoologist, The Association for Biodiversity Information and The Nature Conservancy. "This summer we will be posting to our web site information on taxonomy, nomenclature, ecology, status, distribution, habitat, reproduction, phenology, food habits, etc. for ALL North American reptiles and amphibian species. These databases have been 15 years in the making and are finally being made public. Over time we will be adding pictures, Latin American and Caribbean data, etc. Currently, the site (under Information Resources) only has a listing of U.S. and Canadian species of amphibian and reptiles. The URL is http://www.abi.org/."
	w	Maptech's MAPSERVER Offers Free USGS Topo Maps and Nautical Charts Check Out the Largest Online Inventory for Land and Sea. (ENS) News March 29, 2000. GREENLAND, NH, March 29 -/E-Wire/-- Maptech introduces its MAPSERVER – a free and new way to view, print and email topo