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BIODIVERSITY / BIOLOGY / ECOLOGY SITES

Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)
InvasiveSpecies.gov: - The gateway to Federal efforts concerning invasive species.
USGS Nonindigenous Aquatic Species Information Resource: - A central repository for accurate and spatially referenced biogeographic accounts of nonindigenous aquatic species
Protect Your Waters: - A site for recreational users who want to help stop aquatic nuisance species
Habitattitude
USFWS Wetlands Information (maps, GIS data, and metadata)
Conservation Biology Institute's "Protected Areas Database": - A listing and GIS layer for land areas in the continental United States and Canada protected (or not) by wilderness designations, inclusion in national parks, federal ownership, etc. (This is not the same as the Northwest Power and Conservation Council's Protected Areas database of stream reaches in the Northwest where hydropower development is discouraged.)
EPA Biological Assessment of Wetlands Workgroup (BAWGG): - Links to publications and databases for wetland species for biological assessments of wetlands.
Northwest Biological Assessment Workgroup
NatureServe: - A source for authoritative conservation information on more than 50,000 plants, animals, and ecological communities of the United States and Canada.
National Council for Science and the Environment
National Aquatic Monitoring Center: (a.k.a. The BugLab)
Washington NatureMapping

Watershed Management Council
The Stream Team: U.S. Forest Service Stream Systems Technology Center
Biodiversity and Biological Collections WWW Server


Watchable Wildlife Program
Pesticide Action Network's Pesticide Database: - A searchable database for toxicity and regulatory information for pesticides.
Global Amphibian Assessment: - Status of the world's known species of frogs, toads, salamanders, and caecilians.
HerpNET: - Herp data from dozens of participating museums.