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• "Freezing to Death in a Warming Climate: Yellow-Cedars in Trouble"

  For more information visit http://www.vancouverobserver.com/blogs/climatesnap-shot/2012/02/09/freezing-death-warming-climate-yellow-cedars-trouble?page=0,0

• 1910 Fire Commemoration Information Site

  For more information visit http://www.fs.usda.gov/detail/r1/learning/history-culture/?cid=stelprdb5122866

• A Brief History of the National Park Service

  For more information visit http://www.cr.nps.gov/history/online_books/kieley/index.htm

• A Distance Learning Adventure: America's Rainforests - Caribbean National Forest

  For more information visit http://rainforests.pwnet.org/americas_rainforests/caribbean.php

• A Student's Guide to Global Climate Change by the U.S. Environmental Protection

  For more information visit http://www.epa.gov/climatestudents/

• All About Horseshe Crabs

  For more information visit http://www.udel.edu/research/explore/loader.html

• America's Great Outdoors

  For more information visit http://www.doi.gov/americasgreatoutdoors/index.cfm

• America's Mussels: Silent Sentinels

  For more information visit http://www.fws.gov/midwest/endangered/clams/mussels.html

• An Article about Fossil Fuels and the Nitrogen Cycle

  For more information visit http://news.mongabay.com/2009/0604-hance_nitrogen.html

• Anatomy of a Tree--Arbor Day Foundation

  For more information visit http://www.arborday.org/treeguide/anatomy.cfm

• Animal Diversity Web's Information on Fowler's Toad

  For more information visit http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/accounts/Anaxyrus_fowleri/

• Animal Planet Horseshoe Crab Information

  For more information visit http://animals.howstuffworks.com/arachnids/horseshoe-crab-info.htm

• Arbor Day's Life of a Tree

  For more information visit http://www.arborday.org/kids/carly/lifeofatree/

• Assisted Tree Migration

  For more information visit http://en.wikipedia/org/wiki/Assisted_migration

• Attracting Hummingbirds

  For more information visit http://www.hummingbirds.net/attract.html

• Audubon Kids Page

  For more information visit http://web4.audubon.org/educate/kids/

• Biosphere 2

  For more information visit http://b2science.org/

• Bird Songs (.wav files)

  Below are the 6 bird song files for the FACTivity on page 72 in the Citizen Science Natural Inquirer. These files are .wav.

  Bird Song 1

  Bird Song 2

  Bird Song 3

  Bird Song 4

  Bird Song 5

  Bird Song 6

  For more information visit

• Bitterroot National Forest

  For more information visit http://www.fs.usda.gov/bitterroot/

• Bosque Restoration Projects (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers)

  For more information visit http://www.bosquerevive.com/index.htm

• Bottomland Hardwood Forests

  For more information visit http://water.epa.gov/type/wetlands/bottomland.cfm

• Brown Wolf Resource

  brwon rese 1 2 3

  For more information visit http://www.brownwolf.com

• Bubo Virginianus

  For more information visit http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/accounts/Bubo_virginianus/

• Building ancient koa wood surfboards

  For more information visit http://www.clubofthewaves.com/surf-culture/ancient-hawaiian-board-building.php

• Bureau of Land Management Just for Kids Soil Biological Communities

  For more information visit http://www.blm.gov/nstc/soil/Kids/soilcrus.html

• Carson National Forest

  For more information visit http://www.fs.usda.gov/carson

• Climate Kids: NASA's Eyes on the Earth

  For more information visit http://climatekids.nasa.gov/

• Common Kingsnake Information

  For more information visit http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/accounts/Lampropeltis_getula/

• Cornell Lab of Ornithology-- Black-Chinned Hummingbird

  For more information visit http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Black-chinned_Hummingbird/id

• Cornell University's Black-backed Woodpecker information

  For more information visit http://www.allaboutbirds.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1077&q=Black-backed+

• Cornell's Lab of Ornithology -- Golden Eagle Page

  For more information visit http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Golden_Eagle/id

• Coronado National Forest

  For more information visit http://www.fs.usda.gov/main/coronado/home

• Coweeta Long Term Ecological Research

  For more information visit http://coweeta.uga.edu/

• Coweeta Long Term Ecological Research Web site

  For more information visit http://coweeta.uga.edu/

• Coweeta LTER Schoolyard Program

  For more information visit http://coweeta.uga.edu/lterschoolyard

• Coweeta Schoolyard Program

  For more information visit http://coweeta.uga.edu/lterschoolyard

• Denali National Park

  For more information visit http://www.nps.gov/dena/index.htm

• Desert USA: Great Horned Owl

  For more information visit http://www.desertusa.com/mag00/jan/papr/ghowl.html

• Discover Southern Forests

  For more information visit http://www.seesouthernforests.org/discover-southern-forests/welcome

• Discover the Forest

  For more information visit http://www.discovertheforest.org/

• Discover the Forest

  For more information visit http://www.discovertheforest.org/where-to-go

• Discovery Education--Soil Safari

  For more information visit http://school.discoveryeducation.com/schooladventures/soil/soil_safari.html

• Do Trees Grow on Farms?

  For more information visit http://www.realtrees4kids.org/index.htm

• Eastern Forest Threat Assessment Center Bookmarks

  For more information visit http://www.forestthreats.org/products/bookmarks

• Eastern Forest Threat Assessment Center Fact Sheets

  For more information visit http://www.forestthreats.org/products/fact-sheets

• Ecological Society of America: Ecosystem Services

  For more information visit http://www.esa.org/ecoservices/comm/body.comm.fact.ecos.html

• Ecological Society of America: Ecosystem Services: A Primer

  For more information visit http://www.esa.org/ecoservices/comm/body.comm.fact.ecos.html

• El Yunque National Forest

  For more information visit http://www.fs.usda.gov/elyunque

• Emerald Ash Borer Research Highlight

  For more information visit http://www.fs.fed.us/research/highlights/highlights_display.php?in_high_id=631

• Environmental Education For Kids-- Seedy Characters

  For more information visit http://dnr.wi.gov/org/caer/ce/eek/cool/seedy.htm

• Environmental Education for Kids--Leaves

  For more information visit http://dnr.wi.gov/org/caer/ce/eek/veg/trees/treestruecolor.htm

• Environmental Education For Kids--Ozone Layer

  For more information visit http://dnr.wi.gov/org/caer/ce/eek/earth/air/badozone.htm

• EPA's Kids Climate Change

  For more information visit http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/kids/index.html

• EPA's Sunwise Kids Ozone Layer Information

  For more information visit http://www.epa.gov/sunwise/kids/kids_ozone.html

• EPA's Surf Your Watershed

  For more information visit http://cfpub.epa.gov/surf/locate/index.cfm

• EPA's Wetlands, Oceans, and Watersheds Kids Page

  For more information visit http://water.epa.gov/aboutow/owow/kids.cfm

• Fighting Invasive Emerald Ash Borers

  An article about fighting invasive emerald ash borers with wood peckers and citizen scientists

  For more information visit https://www.fs.usda.gov/features/fighting-invasive-emerald-ash-borers-woodpeckers-and-citizen-scientists

• Fighting Invasive Emerald Ash Borers

  an Article about fighting invasive emerald ash borers with woodpeckers and citizen scientists

  For more information visit https://www.fs.usda.gov/features/fighting-invasive-emerald-ash-borers-woodpeckers-and-citizen-scientists

• Finding My Forest

  For more information visit http://www.findingmyforest.org/

• Fire Adapted Communities

  For more information visit http://www.fireadapted.org/

• Fire and Aviation Management

  For more information visit http://www.fs.fed.us/fire/management/

• Fire Ecology Learning Lab

  The Fire Ecology Learning Lab is a place-based and experiential middle school science unit designed to help students understand the biotic communities of the Southwest, how these communities are or are not adapted to wildland fire, and how the land can be thoughtfully managed. The lessons are aligned with state standards and follow the 5E model of science education.

  For more information visit https://www.swfireconsortium.org/the-fire-education-learning-lab/

• Fire in the Bosque

  For more information visit http://www.nmnaturalhistory.org/chapter-6-fire-in-the-rio-grande-bosque.html

• Firewise Communities

  For more information visit http://www.firewise.org/?sso=0

• Firewise Communities

  For more information visit http://www.firewise.org/?sso=0

• First Nations' Futures Program

  For more information visit http://www.fnfp.org/

• Fish and Wildlife Service--Southwest Region Fisheries Education

  For more information visit http://www.fws.gov/southwest/fisheries/education.html

• Florida Museum of Natural History Sclerochronology

  For more information visit http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/envarch/sclerochronology.htm

• FOCUS (Forests, Ocean, Climate, and Us) Program

  For more information visit http://www.wylandfoundation.org/education.php?subsection=FOCUS

• For a Natural Inquirer article about the roots of trees

  For more information visit https://www.naturalinquirer.org/FACELook-(Monograph)-i-12.html

• Forest Fires

  For more information visit http://www.foresthistory.org/ASPNET/Policy/Fire/FamousFires/Pulaski.pdf

• Forest Landowner Financial Incentives Programs

  For more information visit http://www.srs.fs.usda.gov/econ/data/forestincentives/

• Forest Service Ecosystem Services

  For more information visit http://www.fs.fed.us/ecosystemservices/

• Forest Service Ecosystem Services Page

  For more information visit http://www.fs.fed.us/ecosystemservices/

• Forest Service Experimental Forests and Ranges

  For more information visit http://www.fs.fed.us/research/efr/

• Forest Service Hemlock Woolly Adelgid

  For more information visit http://www.na.fs.fed.us/fhp/hwa/

• Forest Service Living Memorials Project

  For more information visit http://www.livingmemorialsproject.net

• Forest Service Wildfire Prevention and Wildland Urban Interface

  For more information visit http://www.fs.fed.us/fire/prev_ed/

• Forest Service's Sudden Oak Death page

  For more information visit http://www.na.fs.fed.us/sod/

• Forest Service: Ecosystem Services

  For more information visit http://www.fs.fed.us/ecosystemservices/

• Freshwater Mussel YouTube Video from Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fish

  For more information visit http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URHTrAAkpr0

• Fun with Freshwater Mussels

  For more information visit http://www.uvm.edu/~pass/tignor/mussels/

• Gallery of koa tree photos by Dr. J.B. Friday

  For more information visit https://www.flickr.com/photos/jbfriday/

• Gopher snake information

  For more information visit http://imnh.isu.edu/digitalatlas/bio/reptile/serp/pica/picafram.htm

• Gould League Interactive Food Webs

  For more information visit http://www.gould.edu.au/foodwebs/kids_web.htm

• Great Horned Owl

  For more information visit http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/great_horned_owl/id

• Great Horned Owl: Bubo virginianus

  For more information visit http://www.owlpages.com/owls.php?genus=Bubo&species=virginianus

• Green is Good for You

  For more information visit http://www.apa.org/monitor/apr01/greengood.aspx

• Happy Birthday Clean Water Act! Wisconsin Environmental Education for Kids

  For more information visit http://dnr.wi.gov/org/caer/ce/eek/earth/cleanWaterActBirthday.htm

• Harvard LTER Schoolyard Program

  For more information visit http://harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/schoolyard-lter-program

• Hawai'i Division of Aquatic Resources-- Cultural Importance of Streams

  For more information visit http://dlnr.hawaii.gov/dar/habitat/streams/cultural-importance/

• Hawai'i Division of Aquatic Resources-- Streams

  For more information visit http://dlnr.hawaii.gov/dar/habitat/streams/about-streams/

• Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park

  For more information visit http://www.nps.gov/havo/index.htm

• Hawaiian dryland forests-- Can they be restored?

  For more information visit http://www.hawaiiforest.org/index.php/article/hawaiis_dryland_forests_can_they_be_restored

• Hemlock Woolly Adelgid Pest Alert

  For more information visit http://na.fs.fed.us/spfo/pubs/pest_al/hemlock/hwa05.htm

• History of Fort Valley Experimental Forest

  For more information visit http://www.foresthistory.org/ASPNET/Places/ReseachSites/FortValley.aspx

• History of the Polynesian Voyaging Society

  For more information visit http://www.pvs-hawaii.com/about_pvshistory.htm

• History of the Polynesian Voyaging Society

  For more information visit http://www.pvs-hawaii.com/about_pvshistory.htm

• How to Make a Diorama Fish Habitat

  For more information visit http://www.ehow.com/how_8304459_make-diorama-fish-habitat.html

• How Trees Might Move in a Changing Climate

  For more information visit https://www.naturalinquirer.org/The-Possible-Impact-of-Climate-Change-on-Forest-Habitats-a-108.html

• Idaho Forest Products Commission: The 1910 Fires

  For more information visit http://www.idahoforests.org/fires.htm

• Information about albizia trees in Hawaii

  For more information visit http://www.island-trust.com/albizia-the-tree-that-ate-puna.html

• Information about the Mexican Frog or Tarahumara Frog

  For more information visit http://www.azgfd.gov/w_c/edits/documents/Ranatara.fi.pdf

• International Institute of Tropical Forestry

  For more information visit http://www.fs.usda.gov/iitf/

• International Union the the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Protected Lands Catego

  For more information visit http://www.iucn.org/about/work/programmes/gpap_home/gpap_quality/gpap_pacategories/

• Invasive Earthworms in Minnesota

  For more information visit http://www.dnr.state.mn.us/invasives/terrestrialanimals/earthworms/index.html

• Joint Fire Sciences Program: Fuels Reduction and Restoration in the Bosque of th

  For more information visit http://www.firescience.gov/projects/briefs/01-1-3-19_FSBrief7.pdf

• Kids and Community--Learn About an Urban Planner!

  For more information visit http://www.planning.org/kidsandcommunity/

• Kids F.A.C.E.

  For more information visit http://www.kidsface.org/

• Kings River Experimental Watersheds

  For more information visit http://fs.fed.us/psw/topics/water/kingsriver/

• Koa Ethnobotany information: Bishop Museum

  For more information visit http://data.bishopmuseum.org/ethnobotanydb/ethnobotany.php?b=d&ID=koa

• Let's Move Outside

  For more information visit http://www.letsmove.gov/lets-move-outside

• Locate Protected Areas Worldwide

  For more information visit http://www.protectedplanet.net

• Luquillo Long-Term Ecological Research Program

  For more information visit http://luq.lternet.edu/

• Maine's Fall Foliage Video

  For more information visit http://www.maine.gov/dacf/mfs/projects/fall_foliage/index.shtml

• Middle Rio Grande Bosque Initiative

  For more information visit http://www.fws.gov/southwest/mrgbi/index.html

• Middle Rio Grande Endangered Species Collaborative Program

  For more information visit http://www.middleriogrande.com/

• Missoula Fire Sciences Lab Facility Tour

  For more information visit https://usfs.maps.arcgis.com/apps/Cascade/index.html?appid=e01e92eaaa0648f69a357054788b9119

• More Possible Impacts of Climate Change on Streams

  For more information visit http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases

• NASA Landsat Resources for Educators

  For more information visit http://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/?page_id=11/resources.html

• NASA's Earth Minute: Sea Level Rise

  For more information visit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msnOHuPep9I&feature=youtu.be

• NASA's El Niño for Kids

  For more information visit http://kids.earth.nasa.gov/archive/nino/intro.html

• NASA's Urban Sprawl

  For more information visit http://science1.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2002/11oct_sprawl/

• National Aeronautics and Space Agency (NASA) Climate Kids

  For more information visit http://climatekids.nasa.gov/

• National Climatic Data Center

  For more information visit http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/news/new-vegetation-climate-data-record-0

• National Forest Foundation: Sniffing Out Wolverine Dens

  For more information visit https://www.nationalforests.org/blog/sniffing-out-wolverine-dens

• National Geographic Prairie Dogs

  For more information visit http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/mammals/prairie-dog/

• National Geographic's Golden Eagle Page

  For more information visit http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/birds/golden-eagle/

• National Geographic's Mangrove page

  For more information visit http://education.nationalgeographic.com/education/gallery/mangrove-trees/?ar_a=1

• National Geographic's Spring Peepers Information

  For more information visit http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/amphibians/spring-peeper/

• National Geographic's Wolverine Information

  For more information visit http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/mammals/wolverine/

• National Geograpic Wolverine Information Page

  For more information visit http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/mammals/wolverine/

• National Georgraphic for Kids Ozone Article

  For more information visit http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/explore/space/light-pollution.html

• National Invasive Species Center-- Hemlock Woolly Adelgid

  For more information visit http://www.invasivespeciesinfo.gov/animals/hwa.shtml

• National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Carbon Cycle Education Resources

  For more information visit http://www.education.noaa.gov/Climate/Carbon_Cycle.html

• National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Chinook Salmon

  For more information visit http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/pr/species/fish/chinooksalmon.htm

• National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Fisheries: Elwha Restoration

  For more information visit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TP9z5S5oivo

• National Park Service's Rio Grande Web Page

  For more information visit http://www.nps.gov/rigr/index.htm

• National Park Service's Webrangers Dendrochronology Activity

  For more information visit http://www.webrangers.us/activities/

• National Park Service, Elwha River Restoration

  For more information visit http://www.nps.gov/olym/naturescience/elwha-ecosystem-restoration.htm

• National Science and Technology Center: Mycorrhizal Fungi

  For more information visit http://www.blm.gov/nstc/soil/fungi/index.html

• National Science and Technology Center: Soil Arthropods

  For more information visit http://www.blm.gov/nstc/soil/arthropods/index.html

• National Zoo Prairie Dogs

  For more information visit http://nationalzoo.si.edu/animals/smallmammals/fact-pdog.cfm

• Native dryland trees and their flowers

  For more information visit http://www.drylandforest.org/native-dryland-trees-their-flowers

• Natural Inquirer Ecosystem Services Edition

  For more information visit https://www.naturalinquirer.org/Eco-i-26.html

• Natural Inquirer Wilderness Benefits Edition

  For more information visit https://www.naturalinquirer.org/Wilderness-Benefits-Edition-i-11.html

• Natural Inquirer World's Forests Edition

  For more information visit https://www.naturalinquirer.org/The-World's-Forests-i-13.html

• Natural Resource Conservation Service, Soils

  For more information visit http://www.nrcs.usda.gov/wps/portal/nrcs/site/soils/home/

• Nitrogen Cycle for Kids

  For more information visit http://www.eo.ucar.edu/kids/green/cycles7.htm

• NOAA Climate Change for Students

  For more information visit http://www.education.noaa.gov/Climate/

• NOAA's El Niño Animations and Graphics

  For more information visit http://www.elnino.noaa.gov/ani.html

• NOAA's Ocean Temperatures and Currents

  For more information visit http://www.oar.noaa.gov/k12/html/oceans2.html

• NOVA Anatomy of a Volcano

  For more information visit http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/volcano/anat_06.htm

• NOVA: Explore the Methuselah Grove

  For more information visit http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/methuselah/

• Novel: Seedfolks by Paul Fleischman

  One of the educators that uses the Natural Inquirer in her classroom emailed me with this recommendation for a novel to go along with the monograph. Great connection!

  For more information visit

• Nuisance Geese

  For more information visit https://www.michigan.gov/dnr/0,4570,7-153-10370_12145_25065-59467--,00.html

• Pachamama: Our Earth--Our Future

  For more information visit http://www.grida.no/publications/other/geo2000/pacha/

• PBS Harriman Expedition Retraced: Alaska Native Communities

  For more information visit http://www.pbs.org/harriman/1899/native.html

• PBS Video Series About Red Knots and Horseshoe Crabs

  For more information visit http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/episodes/crash-a-tale-of-two-species/introduction/592

• Photo Gallery of Denali National Park

  For more information visit http://www.flickr.com/photos/denalinps

• Photo Gallery of Denali National Park

  For more information visit http://www.nps.gov/dena/photosmultimedia/photogallery.htm

• Planting a Memorial Garden

  For more information visit http://pss.uvm.edu/ppp/articles/memorial.html

• Possible Impacts of Climate Change on Streams

  For more information visit http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases

• Prentice Hall's Geoscience Animations for El Niño and La Niña

  For more information visit http://esminfo.prenhall.com/science/geoanimations/animations/26_NinoNina.html

• Project Budburst

  For more information visit http://www.budburst.org

• Project Budburst/National Geographic Growing Degree Days Tool

  For more information visit http://budburst.org/documents/871408/1044448/FS_Unit_3.pdf/5b4c635f-2d09-4055-a881-35a174d0085d

• Publication on Experimental Forests and Ranges

  For more information visit http://www.nrs.fs.fed.us/pubs/gtr/gtr_ne321R.pdf

• Resources about Southern Forests for Teachers

  For more information visit http://www.seesouthernforests.org/teachers

• Santa Fe National Forest

  For more information visit http://www.fs.usda.gov/santafe/

• Save Georgia's Hemlocks

  For more information visit http://www.savegeorgiashemlocks.org/

• Science News for Kids--A Change in Leaf Color Article

  For more information visit https://student.societyforscience.org/article/change-leaf-color

• Scientific American podcast on ecosystem services, 60-second Earth

  For more information visit http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode/why-ecosystem-services-matter-09-02-05/

• Shorebirds and Horseshoe Crabs

  For more information visit http://www.delawareestuary.org/publications/factsheets/Horsecra.pdf

• Slideshow of Hawaiian dryland native plants

  For more information visit http://www.drylandforest.org/home-slideshow-dryland-natives

• Smithsonian Institution Ocean Portal Site on Mangroves

  For more information visit http://ocean.si.edu/ocean-life-ecosystems/mangrove-forests

• Smithsonian Migratory Bird Game

  For more information visit http://nationalzoo.si.edu/scbi/migratorybirds/Education/Kids_Stuff/Woth_game/default.cfm

• Smithsonian.com: Social Networking Prairie Dog Style

  For more information visit http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/social-networking-prairie-dog-style-180952208/?no-ist

• Smokey Bear

  For more information visit https://smokeybear.com/en

• Smokey Bear and Wildfire Information

  For more information visit http://www.smokeybear.com/wildfires.asp

• Snag and Den Tree Habitat for Wildlife

  For more information visit http://wgfd.wyo.gov/wtest/Departments/Wildlife/pdfs/BULLETIN_NO460001788.pdf

• Student Conservation Association

  For more information visit http://www.thesca.org/

• Student-based Monitoring Program of the Rio Grande in New Mexico (video)

  For more information visit http://www.bosqueschool.org/bemp.aspx

• Sudden Oak Death page

  For more information visit http://www.suddenoakdeath.org/

• Symbols Cache - Woodsy Owl

  The Symbols Cache is a website where individuals can order Woodsy Owl and Smokey Bear items.

  For more information visit https://www.symbols.gov/index.php?cPath=127

• Symbols Cache- Woodsy Owl

  The Symbols Cache is a website where individuals can order Woodsy Owl and Smokey Bear items.

  For more information visit https://www.symbols.gov/index.php?cPath=127

• Tabonuco Trees

  For more information visit http://www.na.fs.fed.us/pubs/silvics_manual/volume_2/dacryodes/excelsa.htm

• Teachers Guide for "Climate Change, Wildlife, and Wildlands Tool Kit"

  For more information visit http://oceanservice.noaa.gov/education/pd/climate/activities/casestudies/westmountforeststudent.pdf

• Tennessee Valley Authority: Kids' Guide to Protecting Water

  For more information visit http://www.tvakids.com/environment/cleanwater.htm

• Texas Parks and Wildlife

  For more information visit http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/kids/get_out/

• The Fuels for Schools Program

  For more information visit http://blogs.usda.gov/2011/04/12/usda-forest-service%E2%80%99s-fuels-for-schools-program-turns-biomass-into-energy/

• The Great 1910 Fire (includes pictures)

  For more information visit http://www.1910fire.com/

• The Great Plant Escape- Seed Germination

  For more information visit http://urbanext.illinois.edu/gpe/case3/index.html

• The High Elevation White Pine Educational Web site

  For more information visit http://www.fs.fed.us/rm/highelevationwhitepines/

• The Life Cycle of a Glacier

  For more information visit http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/vinson/glacier.html

• The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Water Science School: Runoff

  For more information visit http://water.usgs.gov/edu/runoff.html

• The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Water Science School: Sediment

  For more information visit http://water.usgs.gov/edu/sediment.html

• The Wild Foundation

  For more information visit http://www.wild.org/

• Tips for Taking Kids to the Backcountry

  For more information visit http://www.trails.com/list_1145_tips-taking-kids-backcountry.html

• Tongrass National Forest: Ice Fields and Glaciers

  For more information visit http://www.fs.usda.gov/tongass/

• Totem Poles

  For more information visit http://www.native-languages.org/totem.htm

• Tracking Yellow Cedar Decline

  For more information visit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7ym6JnNXJM&feature=youtu.be

• Tropical dry forests of the Pacific-Hawaiian Islands

  For more information visit http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/geog/tdfpacific/hawaii.html

• Tucson Bird and Wildlife Festival

  For more information visit http://www.tucsonaudubon.org/festival.html

• U.S. Environment Protection Agency: Surf Your Watershed

  For more information visit http://cfpub.epa.gov/surf/locate/index.cfm

• U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Heat Island Effect

  For more information visit http://www.epa.gov/hiri/

• U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Climate Change Kids Site

  For more information visit http://www.kidsnewsroom.org/climatechange/

• U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Ozone Web site

  For more information visit http://www.epa.gov/glo/

• U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Video: After the Storm

  For more information visit http://water.epa.gov/action/weatherchannel/index.cfm

• U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Water: Educator Resources

  For more information visit http://water.epa.gov/learn/resources/nationswaters_index.cfm

• U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Water: Educator Resources: What Can I Do?

  For more information visit http://water.epa.gov/learn/resources/projects.cfm#projects

• U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Carbon Cycle Movie

  For more information visit http://epa.gov/climatestudents/basics/today/carbon-dioxide.html

• U.S. Environmental Protection Agency: Water Is Worth It

  For more information visit http://water.epa.gov/action/cleanwater40

• U.S. Environmental Protection Agency: Learn about Water

  For more information visit http://www2.epa.gov/learn-issues/learn-about-water

• U.S. Environmental Protection Agency: Nonpoint Source Pollution

  For more information visit http://water.epa.gov/polwaste/nps

• U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Blog

  For more information visit http://www.fws.gov/news/blog/index.cfm/2011/5/3/Delaware-Betting-on-Survival-in-Delaware-Bay

• U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service- Let's Go Outside!

  For more information visit http://www.fws.gov/letsgooutside/

• U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Water Cycle for Kids

  For more information visit http://water.usgs.gov/edu/watercycle-kids.html

• U.S. Geological Survey food web and its function

  For more information visit http://wwwrcamnl.wr.usgs.gov/isoig/projects/fingernails/foodweb/whyfoodweb.html

• U.S. Geological Survey Groundwater Map

  For more information visit http://www.usgs.gov/blogs/features/usgs_top_story/the-quality-of-the-nations-groundwater/

• U.S. Geological Survey Hawai'i Volcanoes page

  For more information visit http://hvo.wr.usgs.gov/

• U.S. Geological Survey kipuka page

  For more information visit http://volcanoes.usgs.gov/images/pglossary/kipuka.php/

• U.S. Geological Survey Mauna Loa page

  For more information visit http://hvo.wr.usgs.gov/maunaloa/

• U.S. Geological Survey Water Data

  For more information visit http://waterdata.usgs.gov/nwis/rt

• U.S. Geological Survey Water Data for Rio Sabana

  For more information visit http://waterdata.usgs.gov/nwis/inventory/?site_no=50067000&agency_cd=USGS

• U.S. Geological Survey: Aquifers

  For more information visit http://water.usgs.gov/edu/earthgwaquifer.html

• U.S. Geological Survey: Groundwater

  For more information visit http://water.usgs.gov/edu/earthgw.html

• U.S. Geological Survey: Infiltration

  For more information visit http://water.usgs.gov/edu/watercycleinfiltration.html

• U.S. Geological Survey: Rivers Contain Groundwater

  For more information visit http://water.usgs.gov/edu/rivers-contain-groundwater.html

• U.S. Geological Survey: Water Bsics

  For more information visit http://water.usgs.gov/edu/mwater.html

• Underground Virtual Adventure--The Field Museum

  For more information visit http://archive.fieldmuseum.org/undergroundadventure/flash/VirtualTour.swf

• University of California Museum of Paleontology: Tropical Forests

  For more information visit http://www.ucmp.berkley.edu/exhibits/biomes/forests.php#tropical

• University of Michigan's Animal Diversity Web--Wolverine Information

  For more information visit http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/accounts/Gulo_gulo/

• University of Michigan's Animal Diversity Web: Wolverine Information

  For more information visit http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/accounts/Gulo_gulo/

• University of Wisconsin-Madison's Wildland-Urban Interface Maps and Statistics

  For more information visit http://silvis.forest.wisc.edu/maps/wui_main

• USA National Phenology Network

  For more information visit https://www.usanpn.org/

• USA Today Article on Yellow-Cedar Decline

  For more information visit http://www.usatoday.com/weather/climate/2006-03-27-yellow-cedar_x.htm

• USDA Forest Service Forest and Woodlands Ecosystems

  For more information visit http://www.usu.edu/beetle/

• USDA Forest Service Nature Watch

  For more information visit http://www.fs.fed.us/outdoors/naturewatch/

• USFWS Mussels Making Moves For Water Quality

  For more information visit https://usfwsnortheast.wordpress.com/2017/08/21/mussels-making-moves-for-water-quality/

• USGS History of Eruption

  For more information visit http://volcanoes.usgs.gov/volcanoes/long_valley/

• USGS Inyo Craters Page

  For more information visit http://volcanoes.usgs.gov/volcanoes/long_valley/long_valley_multimedia_gallery.html

• USGS Science in Your Watershed

  For more information visit http://water.usgs.gov/wsc/watersheds.html

• USGS Watershed Information Page

  For more information visit http://ga.water.usgs.gov/edu/watershed.html

• USGS Western Toad Information

  For more information visit http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/resource/herps/amphibid/species/bboreas.htm

• USGS You Are What You Eat- Isotopes

  For more information visit http://wwwrcamnl.wr.usgs.gov/isoig/projects/fingernails/results/interpretdata.html

• USGS Zebra Mussel Information Page

  For more information visit http://www.glsc.usgs.gov/main.php?content=research_invasive_zebramussel&title=Invasive%20Invertebrates0&menu=research_invasive_invertebrates

• USGS's National Wetlands Research Center

  For more information visit http://www.nwrc.usgs.gov/

• USGS's Woodhouse's Toad Page

  For more information visit http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/resource/herps/amphibid/species/bwood.htm

• Using Natural Inquirer to Interpret Real-World Data

  For more information visit https://www.naturalinquirer.org/

• Using Polynesian noninstrument navigation

  For more information visit http://www.pvs-hawaii.com/navigation/summary.htm

• Using Polynesian noninstrument navigation

  For more information visit http://www.pvs-hawaii.com/navigation/summary.htm

• Video Clip of Deforestation in Rondônia, Brazil

  For more information visit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwPq1CBTAx0

• Video from USDA FS Scientist Scott Horn

  For more information visit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mc9o3WAp9IM

• Waipi'o Valley (Wikipedia)

  For more information visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waipio_valley

• Waipi'o Valley history

  For more information visit http://gohawaii.about.com/cs/bigislandland/a/waipio_valley.htm

• Water Writes Mural

  For more information visit http://www.frolichawaii.com/blogs/the-making-of-estrias-water-writes-mural/

• We Need Trees!

  For more information visit http://discoverykids.com/articles/why-do-we-need-trees/

• Weather Instruments

  For more information visit http://www.weatherwizkids.com/

• What Experimental Branch Cooling Tells Us About the Beautiful Reds of Fall

  Paul Schaberg and his colleagues at the Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources and USDA Forest Service recently published a study in the Canadian Journal of Forest Research. Below, Paul describes the role temperature has in turning the leaves of sugar maple trees red.

  For more information visit http://www.cdnsciencepub.com/blog/what-experimental-branch-cooling-tells-us-about-the-beautiful-reds-of-fall.aspx

• When It Rains It Runs Off: Runoff in Ubanized Areas in Arizona

  For more information visit http://extension.arizona.edu/sites/extension.arizona.edu/files/pubs/az1542.pdf

• Wilderness

  For more information visit http://wilderness.net

• Wilderness Investigations

  For more information visit http://www.wilderness.net/NWPS/k12

• Wildfire Burn Severity Classification

  For more information visit http://www.nrcs.usda.gov/wps/portal/nrcs/detail/mt/programs/planning/ewpp/?cid=nrcs144p2_056249

• Worm Facts

  For more information visit http://urbanext.illinois.edu/worms/facts/index.html

• Yellow Cedar Photo Gallery

  For more information visit http://www.fs.fed.us/pnw/olympia/silv/YellowCedar/ycedarCover.html

• Zebra Mussel Distribution Map

  For more information visit http://www.nationalatlas.gov/articles/biology/a_zm.html