UCB Libraries

Parks, Forests, Grasslands, Wildlife Refuges, and Historic Places

• Forest Service
  Use the drop-down box to find a national forest or grassland by state or name.
  • Treesearch allows users to search for publications by the Forest Service's research & development scientists. The database includes all Forest Service books, chapters, and articles published as early as January 2004, and older publications are being added. Research results behind these publications have been peer reviewed.
• Healthy Forests Initiative (HFI)
  HFI was launched with the intent to reduce the risks severe wildfires pose to people, communities, and the environment.
• National Archaeological Database
  An "expanded bibliographic inventory of approximately 240,000 reports on archeological investigation and planning, mostly of limited circulation. This 'gray literature' represents a large portion of the primary information available on archeological sites in the U.S. NADB-Reports can be searched by state, county, worktype, cultural affiliation, keyword, material, year of publication, title, and author."
• National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC)
  NIFC is the U.S. government center for fighting wildfires. The web site features national fire policies and includes links to information about training and fire prevention.
• National Park Service
• National Parks A-Z list
• National Park Service Reference Desk provides access to personnel directories, policy manuals, and "hot documents" requested under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).
• NPS Focus Digital Library searches across multiple National Park Service databases. This database provides full-text access to reports.
• National Park Service Voyager Database is a combined library catalog of many units within the National Park Service. Some bibliographic citations contain links to the full-text materials.
• National Register of Historic Places
• National Wildlife Refuge
  This page links to graphics, species information, laws, and more.
• Recreation.Gov
  This site provides a searchable database of recreational opportunities on federal lands. Choose a state and recreation activity. The database will generate a list of relevant parks, forests, and other facilities. The individual entries include a description of the site, link to the agency which manages it, links to interactive mapping from the National Atlas and a current weather report.

• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
• FAO Forestry Division offers country profiles and links to databases
• FAOSTAT provides statistical information on forest growth, consumption, and other agricultural questions.
• Forestry Information Centre offers access to numerous free online publications dealing with forestry issues.
• Natural Resources Management and Environment focuses on sustainable agricultural development with regard to natural resources.
• State of the World's Forests is an annual report covering the forest cover of the whole world (paper copy in CU collection 1000 F17 St28wf, 1997-).
• Unasylva is an international journal of forestry (paper copy is in CU collection 1000 F17 Un1, Vol. 11- ).
• Timber Publications
  This web page lists publications from the UN Economic Commission for Europe and the FAO. It contains links to the papers in PDF format.
• World Conservation Monitoring Centre
• United Nations List of Protected Areas is the definitive list of the world's national parks and reserves.
• IMapS can be created for specific regions, incorporating information on environmental sensitivities such as protected areas, breeding areas, species and background information.
• International Policy is a collection of treaties and other international agreements.
• World Database on Protected Areas
• UNESCO World Heritage Centre
• UNESCO World Heritage Convention is the text of the 1972 convention
• World Heritage List

• EarthTrends: The Environmental Information Portal
  This is a cooperative project of the World Resources Institute, the World Bank, the UN Environment Programme, the UN Development Programme and others that provides a wide array of environmental data and information. The material is grouped into broad topics: coastal and marine ecosystems; water resources and freshwater ecosystems; climate and atmosphere; population, health and human well-being; economics, business and the environment; energy and resources; biodiversity and protected areas; agriculture and food; forests and grasslands; and environmental institutions and governance. After selecting a broad topic, the user has access to databases, datatables, country profiles, maps, and feature articles. The databases provide extensive data for onscreen viewing or download. Years of coverage vary. The data tables provide comparative data for countries of the world. The country profiles provide data, tables, and a brief narrative for individual countries.
• Global Forest Information Service
• International Union of Forest Research Organizations
• Species in Parks Flora and Fauna Databases
  "The Information Center of the Environment, in conjunction with the National Park Service, has developed a preliminary database of vascular plant and vertebrate animal species within lands owned by the U.S. National Park Service. " Browse by park or species name.

Resources in the Catalog

• The Library Catalog, Chinook
  There are numerous secondary, federal, and international sources of information on parks, forests, wildlife refuges and historic places available in the collection.
  
  Try these searches to see some of the resources in Chinook , the library catalog:

  Electronic Resources	Print and Electronic Resources
  parks and statistics	parks and statistics
  wetlands and histor*	wetlands and histor*
  forest* and politic*	forest* and politic*
  wildlife refuge (government publications only)	wildlife refuge (government publications only)

  
  The * replaces up to five characters in a word.

• Endangered Species
• Environment
• Water
• Wetlands