Environmental & Ethno-Ecological-Botanical
Web Resources

Activism

Cathedral Grove (Added 18 Jun 10): site created by Dr. Karen Wonders; www.cathedralgrove.eu
First Nations: Land Rights & Environmentalism in BC (Added 18 Jun 10): Dr. Karen Wonders; www.firstnations.de

Birds

Birding in BC (Added 25 Nov 10): www.birding.bc.ca/index.php

Blogs

Handbook of Nature Study Blog (Added 9 Jan 11): seasonal outdoor hour challenges; handbookofnaturestudy.blogspot.com
Native Plant Girl (Added 18 Oct 10): Toronto; nativeplantgirl.blogspot.com
Steve Wilson - Conservationist (Added 18 Oct 10): Ohio; interesting list of Blogs he follows; www.blogger.com/profile/02098584432333519732

Botanical Photographs

California Wildflowers (Added 6 Sep 10): database sortable by: colour and names (family, latin, common); researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/botany/wildflow/index.html
Celebrating Wildflowers: Pacific Northwest Region (Added 6 Sep 10): www.fs.fed.us/wildflowers
Wildflowers and Other Plants of Southern California (Added 6 Sep 10): www.calflora.net/bloomingplants/index.html

Botanical Prints

Early New Zealand Botanical Art (Added 8 Sep 10): www.nzetc.org/tm/scholarly/tei-SamEarl.html
Ferns of Great Britain & Ireland by Thomas Moore (Added 8 Sep 10): Nature printed by 1857; Download: 50 plates download 1857; 29 MB; 51 plates download 1855; 32 MB; www.botanicus.org/title/b11977395
Hammered Leaf Prints (Added 8 Sep 10): google.com/search
Hand Printing from Nature: Create Unique Prints for Fabric, Paper, and Other Surfaces (Added 9 Nov 16): books.google.ca
Impressions Of Nature - A History Of Nature Printing (Added 20 Aug 10, updated 09 Nov 16): by Roderick Cave; www.theguardian.com/environment/gallery/2010/aug/19/impressions-of-nature
Plants & Gardens Portrayed (Added 20 Aug 10): LuEsther T. Mertz Library of the New York Botanical Garden; sciweb.nybg.org/Science2/Onlinexhibits/exhbtcata.html
The phantom bouquet: a popular treatise on the art of skeletonizing leaves (Added 20 Aug 10): by Edward Parrish; books.google.ca

Camping

Environmental Studies

Barefoot Mapping Guidebook (Added 13 Sep 10, updated 08 Nov 16): sierraclub.bc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Barefoot-Mapping_8-12.pdf
Ecology & Society Journal (Added 19 Jun 10): Back Issues; www.ecologyandsociety.org
Effects of Road & Traffic on Wildlife Populations & Landscape Function (Added 19 Jun 10): www.ecologyandsociety.org/issues/view.php?sf=41

Etc

BC Species and Ecosystems Search (Added 9 May 09): "Generate lists of provincial species and ecological communities based on a number of criteria option"; www.env.gov.bc.ca/atrisk/toolintro.html
Botanicus (Added 8 Sep 10): free downloads of historic botanic literature; Missouri Botanical Garden Library; Titles; www.botanicus.org/browse/titles
Earthview (Added 12 Oct 09): www.fourmilab.ch
Handbook of Nature Study (Added 9 Jan 11): by Anna Botsford Comstock, 1911; written for elementary school teachers; read on-line; www.archive.org/details/handbookofnature002506mbp
HOME - The Movie (Added 17 Apr 10): 100% aerial video footage from over 50 countries result in stunning documentary by Yann Arthus-Bertrand; "We are living in exceptional times. Scientists tell us that we have 10 years to change the way we live, avert the depletion of natural resources and the catastrophic evolution of the Earth's climate. For this purpose, HOME needs to be free. A patron, the PPR Group, made this possible. EuropaCorp, the distributor, also pledged not to make any profit because Home is a non-profit film"; www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqxENMKaeCU
Jepson (Herbarium) Fieldbooks c. 1903 (Added 6 Sep 10): ucjeps.berkeley.edu/images/fieldbooks/jepson_fieldbooks.html
Lessons for Hope (Added 9 Jan 11): Jane Goodall's page; Guide to Tree Sketching "students find & solve real problems"; www.lessonsforhope.org/index.html
Sensitive Ecosystems Inventory: E. Vancouver Island & Gulf Islands (Added 9 May 09): a100.gov.bc.ca/pub/acat/public/viewReport.do?reportId=2124
Sketching Trees Guide (Added 9 Jan 2011): 15 pg pdf file; www.lessonsforhope.org/pdf/Guide_To_Tree_Sketching_PDF.pdf
Tides Station Info Victoria Harbour (Added 09 June 2022): Stations; www.tides.gc.ca/en/stations/7120
Tides Prediction Calculator (Modified 12 Dec 10): Victoria; tbone.biol.sc.edu/tide/m/othernorth.html
Tree Of Life Web Project (Added 6 Sep 10): "The Tree of Life Web Project (ToL) is a collaborative effort of biologists and nature enthusiasts from around the world. On more than 10,000 World Wide Web pages, the project provides information about biodiversity, the characteristics of different groups of organisms, and their evolutionary history"; tolweb.org/tree/phylogeny.html

EthnoBotany

Camas: The Queen Root Of This Clime (Added 19 Mar 10; Modified 09 June 2022): "ethnoecological investigations of blue camas (Camassia leichtlinii (Baker) Wats., C. quamash (Pursh) Greene ; Liliaceae) and its landscapes on southern Vancouver Island, British Columbia"; thesis of Brenda Raye Beckwith; dspace.library.uvic.ca/handle/1828/632
Wade Davis' Wayfinders: Why Ancient Wisdom Matters (Added 8 Apr 10; Modified 09 June 2022): www.ted.com
International Society of EthnoBiology (Added 19 Mar 10): www.ethnobiology.net
Ryan Drum: Island Herbs (Added 12 Nov 10): www.ryandrum.com
WTU Herbarium Image Collection (Added 20 Mar 09): biology.burke.washington.edu/herbarium/imagecollection.php?Page=introduction.php

Gardening & Food Security

Indigenous Knowledge

Anthropology of Northwest Coast Oral Traditions (Added 3 Jun 10): Bibliographic Essay, Brian Thom, PhD Student, McGill University, Department of Anthropology, March 2000; http://aa.uwpress.org/content/40/1/1.full.pdf
A Sense Of Place: Toward a Curriculum of Place for WSÁNEC People (Added 3 Jun 10): Tye Chaburn Swallow, UVic Master's Thesis 1998; 125 page pdf file; dspace.library.uvic.ca:8080/bitstream/1828/819/1/swallow_2005.pdf
Aboriginal Land Use Patterns in the Boreal Forest of North-Centrai Manitoba: AppIications for Archaeology (Added 9 Oct 10): modelling.pictographics.com/pdfs/carpvol2.pdf
Chief Kerry's Moose: A Guidebook to Land Use and Occupancy Mapping, Research Design (Added 12 Jan 11): by Terry Tobias; pdf; www.ubcic.bc.ca/chief_kerry_s_moose
Culturally Significant Plants (Added 9 Oct 10): US Dept Agriculture; plants.usda.gov/java/factSheet?cultural=yes
Cultural Survival Quarterly Backissues (Added 12 Jun 10): www.culturalsurvival.org
Expanding Biocultural Horizons: Integrating Indigenous and Traditional Knowledge Into a Global Framework for Sustainability (Added 3 Jun 10): by Riley Pollom, Athabasca University; jis.athabascau.ca/index.php/jis/article/view/29/14
First Nations Languages of BC (Added 5 Jun 10): www.ydli.org/fnlgsbc.htm
First Nations Studies, History and Anthropology Theses (Added 3 Jun 10): qmackie.wordpress.com/northwest-anthropology-history-and-other-theses
First Peoples' Language Map of BC (Added 5 Jun 10): maps.fphlcc.ca
Halkomelem Ethnobiology (Added 5 Jun 10): Brian D. Compton & Donna Gerdts; Plants file folder; www.sfu.ca/halk-ethnobiology/html/main.htm
Indigenous Knowledge Systems: Alaska Native Ways of Knowing (Added 3 Jun 10): Yupik Bird Book; Herman Kitka's Traditional Ecological Knowledge Quicktime Recordings; Doris Borhauer'sBasket Collection Photos; Songs & Legends: Oral History; www.ankn.uaf.edu/curriculum/Articles/BarnhardtKawagley/Indigenous_Knowledge.html
Indigenous Studies Portal USask - Theses & Disertations (Added 9 Oct 10): iportal.usask.ca/index.php?sid=989516557&t=sub_pages&cat=763&rtype_limit=33
Journal of Ethnobiology (Added 5 Jun 10): Past Issues: Vol 1-#1; Winter 81; Spring 1982; Summer-90; ethnobiology.org
Journal of Ethnobiology & Ethnomedicine (Added 5 Jun 10): www.ethnobiomed.com
The Earth's Blanket: Traditional Teaching for Sustainable Living (Added 3 Jun 10): by Nancy J. Turner; books.google.ca
Trail of Story, Traveller's Path: Reflections on Ethnoecology and Landscape (Added 2 Jul 10): by Leslie Main Johnson; Creative Commons ebook; www.aupress.ca/index.php/books/120163
Trail Tribes (Added 13 Jun 10): traditional & contemporary indigenous culture; history with tribal perspective, along trails followed by Lewis & Clark; www.trailtribes.org
Why Is Taxonomy Utilitarian (Added 5 Jun 10): ethnobiology.org/sites/default/files/pdfs/JoE/15-1/Clement1995.pdf

Marine

Microscopic Marine Life (Added 20 Apr 10): 12 photos; www.guardian.co.uk/environment/gallery/2010/apr/19/microscopic-marine-life?lightbox=1

Plant ID

E-Flora BC (Added 23 Jul 14): ibis.geog.ubc.ca/biodiversity/eflora/
The Plant List (Added 13 Jan 11): linked to other plant databases; for Vascular plants & Bryophytes; www.theplantlist.org

Restoration

Seasonal Rounds

Relationship With Land Resources - Blackfoot (Added 9 Oct 10): www.glenbow.org/blackfoot/teacher_toolkit/pdf/Land_Resources.pdf
Seasonality (Added 9 Oct 10): archaeology.about.com/od/sterms/g/seasonality.htm
Seasonal Round of Inuinnait (Added 9 Oct 10): books.google.ca
Seasonal Round of Northern Shoshone - Bannock (Added 9 Oct 10): www.trailtribes.org/lemhi/great-circle.htm
Seneca Seasonal Round (Added 9 Oct 10): books.google.ca

Star Gazing

Cartes du Ciel / Sky Charts (Added 9 Apr 09): Free Astronomy Software (v.2.76 for Windows); v.3 for Linux, Windows & Mac OS X; www.stargazing.net/astropc/index.html
Constellations (88) - Sky Atlas (Added 9 Apr 09): www.astrofilitrentini.it/mat/costell_eng.html
Construct Your Own Star Finder Star Chart (Added 8 Apr 09): patterns in pdf files; www.state.nj.us/dep/seeds/strchrt.htm
Earth Sky Tonight (Added 9 Apr 09; Modified 12 Dec 10): daily updates; earthsky.org/tonight
Sky Almanac (Added 8 Apr 09; Modified 12 Dec 10): Constellation Guide; Weekly Stargazing Tips; Planet Viewing; Meteor Showers; stardate.org/nightsky
Sky & Telescope (Added 11 Apr 09): Interactive Sky Chart; This Week At A Glance; Make A Star Wheel; www.skyandtelescope.com
Tonight's Sky (Added 8 Apr 09): flash movie of monthly sky highlights; hubblesite.org/explore_astronomy/tonights_sky

Taxonomy & Botany

Angiosperm Phylogeny Website (Added 6 Sep 10): www.mobot.org/MOBOT/research/APweb/welcome.html
California Plant Names: Latin and Greek Meanings and Derivations (Added 6 Sep 10): "A Dictionary of Botanical and Biographical Etymology"; www.calflora.net/botanicalnames/index.html
Califlora (Added 6 Sep 10): database with mapped species; www.calflora.org
E-Flora BC (Added 23 Jul 14): ibis.geog.ubc.ca/biodiversity/eflora/
Flora of North America (Added 6 Sep 10; Modified 09 Jun 2022): "information on the names, taxonomic relationships, continent-wide distributions, and morphological characteristics of all plants native and naturalized found in North America north of Mexico."; floranorthamerica.org/Main_Page
Index to Treatments and Keys From The Jepson Manual (Added 6 Sep 10): "Searchable online database provides the latest information on identification, taxonomy, distribution, ecology, relationships, and diversity of California vascular plants"; ucjeps.berkeley.edu/interchange/I_treat_indexes.html
Plants Database (Added 9 Oct 10): US Dept of Agriculture; plants.usda.gov
Plants Poisonous To Livestock (Modified 9 Oct 10): www.ansci.cornell.edu/plants/index.html

Weather

Cloud Appreciation Society (Added 24 Mar 08; Modified 12 Dec 10): see Gallery for photos; cloudappreciationsociety.org
Environment Canada's Weather Office (Added 27 May 07; Modified 09 Jun 2022): weather.gc.ca/mainmenu/weather_menu_e.html
Weather Doctor (Added 27 May 07; Modified 09 June 2022): "Exploring the Science and Poetry of Our Weather and Atmosphere"; www.heidorn.info/keith/weather/doctor.htm

Wilderness Survival

Best Survival Tips (Added 09 Nov 16): survivorsfortress.com/expert-roundup-best-survival-tips-lost-wilderness/
Firemaking Techniques (Added 6 Jun 09): www.onagocag.com/fire.html
Flint Knapping (Added 6 Jun 09): www.onagocag.com/knapping.html

My Seasonal Round-about @ UVic

Environmental & Ethno-Ecological-Botanical Web Resources

Environmental & Ethno-Ecological-Botanical
Web Resources