Environmental & Ethno-Ecological-Botanical
Web Resources

Activism

Cathedral Grove (Added 18 Jun 10): site created by Dr. Karen Wonders; www.cathedralgrove.eu
Community Envionmental Consultation (Added 18 Jun 10): Bear Mountain Interchange; interchangeconsultation.blogspot.com
First Nations: Land Rights & Environmentalism in BC (Added 18 Jun 10): Dr. Karen Wonders; www.firstnations.de
Forest Action (Added 18 Jun 10): monitoring logging, surveying old growth in SW Vancouver Island; map rare species, document need for habitat protection; forestaction.wikidot.com

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/regions/pacificnorthwest/index.shtml
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): buildmakecraftbake.com/2009/04/how-to-hammered-flower-and-leaf-prints.html
Herbarium: How To Make A Specimen (Added 15 Dec 10): Collection Guidelines, Collector Hints, Difficult Customers, Polish Wire Press Slideshow,; www.herbarium.rdg.ac.uk/making_specimens/how_to_make_a_specimen.html
Impressions Of Nature - A History Of Nature Printing (Added 20 Aug 10): by Roderick Cave; markbattypublisher.com/books/impressions-of-nature-2
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

Camping Lovers Guide Blog (Added 16 Mar 10): www.campingloversguide.com

Environmental Studies

Barefoot Mapping Guidebook (Added 13 Sep 10): www.sierraclub.bc.ca/education/files/barefoot-mapping-guidebook
Ecology & Society Journal (Added 19 Jun 10): Back Issues; www.ecologyandsociety.org
Ecology Campus Network (Added 29 Dec 2010): student portal; ecn.ecology.com/ecn-now
Effects of Road & Traffic on Wildlife Populations & Landscape Function (Added 19 Jun 10): www.ecologyandsociety.org/issues/view.php?sf=41
Environmental Education Materials: Guidelines for Excellence (Added 13 Sep 2010; Modified 12 Dec 2010): eelinked.naaee.net/n/guidelines/posts/Environmental-Education-Materials-Guidelines-for-Excellence
Excellence in Environmental Education Guidelines for Learning (K-12) (Added 13 Sep 2010; Modified 12 Dec 2010): eelinked.naaee.net/n/guidelines/posts/K-12-Learner-Guidelines
Going Wild: Guidebook for Educators Grade 4-7 (Added 13 Sep 10): Wild Products from BC's Coastal Rainforest; 103 pdf file; www.sierraclub.bc.ca/education/ed_educators/downloadable-resources-1/NTFP_Guidebook.pdf
Royal Society of New Zealand (Added 19 Jun 10): www.royalsociety.org.nz/site/publish/abstracts.aspx

Etc

Astronomy (Added 16 Mar 10): my Astronomy links; www3.telus.net/On-LineMusicWorldofWendy/Astronomy.htm
Astronomical Applications (Added 20 Mar 10): sun & moon data; seasons; www.usno.navy.mil/USNO/astronomical-applications
Aurora Monitor (Added 28 Oct 07): monitors aurora activity in Northern hemisphere; www.spacew.com/www/aurora.php
Autumn Customs & Lore (Added 27 May 07): Kathleen Jenks, Ph.D.; www.mythinglinks.org/autumnequinox2000.html
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
Earth/Sun Relations and Seasons Tutorial (Added 12 Oct 09): daphne.palomar.edu/jthorngren/tutorial.htm
Earthview (Added 12 Oct 09): www.fourmilab.ch
Group Activities, Exercises & Initiatives (Added 25 Mar 10): www.wilderdom.com/games
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.home-2009.com; www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqxENMKaeCU
How A Bird Flies (Added 1 Jul 07): video; www.factfrog.com/howabirdflies.htm
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
Pebbles: Field Guide To The Identification (Added 6 Jun 09): 2 pg pdf, colour illustrated indentification guide to common beach pebbles; University of Victoria, BC; www.pdac.ca/pdac/publications/na/pdf/060220-pebble-guide.pdf
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
Sun, Moon & Season Calendar (Added 23 Jul 09): www.theweathernetwork.com/moonsun
Tides Prediction Calculator (Modified 12 Dec 10): www.almanac.com/birding-fishing/tides/BC/Victoria/2010-12-12
Tide Tables - Victoria, BC (Added 18 Jun 09): Sooke #1, Sooke #2; Govt of Canada; www.mobilegeographics.com:81/locations/5961.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
Wild Side Art - Briony Penn (Added 13 Sep 10): www.thewildside.ca/artwork.html

EthnoBotany

Camas: The Queen Root Of This Clime (Added 19 Mar 10): "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; hdl.handle.net/1828/632
Wade Davis' Wayfinders: Why Ancient Wisdom Matters (Added 8 Apr 10): TED Talk: Endangered Cultures (2003) ; TED Talk: worldwide web of belief and ritual (2008); YouTube; Explorer Wade Davis on Vanishing Cultures (Jun 2002); on "The Wayfinders" - 1; on "The Wayfinders" - 2;; fora.tv/2010/01/13/Wade_Davis_Why_Ancient_Wisdom_Matters_in_the_Modern_World#fullprogram
Ethnobotanical Dictionary (Added 27 Dec 07): www.ars-grin.gov/duke/dictionary/tico/index.html
International Society of EthnoBiology (Added 19 Mar 10): www.ethnobiology.net
Narrating Landscapes: An Ethnobotanical Relationship Database (Added 12 Jan 11): www.narratinglandscapes.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
Pacific Northwest Region (Added 19 Mar 10): National Biological Information Infrastructure - Geographic Perspectives; "biological and environmental data and information needs of concern or importance to the stakeholders of the region"; www.nbii.gov/portal/server.pt/community/pacific_northwest/241
Ryan Drum: Island Herbs (Added 12 Nov 10): www.ryandrum.com
University of North Carolina Herbarium (Added 19 Mar 10): distribution maps; Atlas of Flora of the SE USA; Weakley's Flora of Carolinas, Virginia, Florida, northern Florida (924 pg pdf file); www.herbarium.unc.edu/distribution.htm
WTU Herbarium Image Collection (Added 20 Mar 09): biology.burke.washington.edu/herbarium/imagecollection.php?Page=introduction.php
Zipcode Zoo (Added 28 Mar 10): Index to Plant Descriptions; zipcodezoo.com/Plants/Plantae.asp

Gardening & Food Security

Deconstructing Dinner (Added 13 Dec 10): 1 hour Radio Broadcasts: Exploring Ethnobiology, 2010 International Congress of Ethnobiology held in Tofino: I, II: Nancy Turner, Cheryl Bryce, Pamela Tudge, III, IV: Cereal Grain Productivity - Iriquois; www.cjly.net/deconstructingdinner

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; pdf file; home.istar.ca/~bthom/nwc-myth.htm
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
Boreal Forest Aboriginal Land Use Patterns (Added 9 Oct 10): Aboriginal Land Use Patterns in the Boreal Forest of North-Centrai Manitoba: AppIications for Archaeology; 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/Resources/tus.htm
Chinook Jargon (Added 5 Jun 10): www.cayoosh.net/hiyu
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 Peoples of BC (Added 5 Jun 10): www.bced.gov.bc.ca/abed/map.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 folder; Animals 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
Model Gathering Code (Added 9 Sep 10): Superior Great Lakes; www.glifwc.org/Plants/Model_Gathering_Code.pdf
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

Andy's Northern Ontario Wildflowers (Added 29 Aug 10): photos, ID; www.ontariowildflower.com
E-Flora BC (Added 23 Jul 14): ibis.geog.ubc.ca/biodiversity/eflora/
Grasses In North America (Added 18 Jun 09): herbarium.usu.edu/webmanual/default.htm
Poison Plant Patch (Added 17 Apr 10): museum.gov.ns.ca/poison/?section=list
Terrestrial Invasive and Introduced Plant Identification (Added 18 Jun 09): www.nbii.gov
The Plant List (Added 13 Jan 11): linked to other plant databases; for Vascular plants & Bryophytes; www.theplantlist.org

Restoration

Seasonal Rounds

Inuit Seasonal Rounds (Added 9 Oct 10): books.google.ca
Relationship With Land Resources - Blackfoot (Added 9 Oct 10): www.glenbow.org/blackfoot/teacher_toolkit/pdf/Land_Resources.pdf
Restoring Seasonal Round to Ceded Territories (Added 9 Oct 10): www.glifwc.org/Accordian_Stories/GeorgeSpangler.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
Secwepemc (Added 9 Oct 10): Seasonal Round; secwepemc.sd73.bc.ca
The Seasonal Round (Added 9 Oct 10): locallearningnetwork.org/the-seasonal-round

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
Complete Guide to Skygazing (Added 9 Apr 09): www.sky-watch.com/astronomy-guide.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; Sunrise & Sunset Calculator; Weekly Stargazing Tips; Planet Viewing; Meteor Showers; Resources; stardate.org/nightsky
Sky & Telescope (Added 11 Apr 09): Register for Interactive Starchart; This Week At A Glance; Observing Highlights; Learning The Sky; Make A Star Clock Make A Star Wheel; Make Your Own Sundial; www.skyandtelescope.com
Sky Calendar (Added 24 Dec 10): www.dennismammana.com/skyinfo/calendar.htm
The Night Sky Live (Added 8 Apr 09): web cams pointed skywards in Arizona, Canary Islands & Chile; nightskylive.net/index.php
Telescopes: The Windows To Solar Space (Added 5 Dec 14): history, types and uses, Hubble Space Telescope, the future. lots of links for further study (thanks to Mary for suggesting this website!); www.americanvisionwindows.com/telescopes-the-windows-to-solar-space.php
Tonight's Sky (Added 8 Apr 09): flash movie of monthly sky highlights; hubblesite.org/explore_astronomy/tonights_sky

Survival Info

Disaster Preparation (Added 17 Jan 09): pdf files; disaster plan kits, fire, nuke, thunder storm, flood, water/food, solar flare, earthquake, hurricanes, tornadoes, winter storms, volcanoes; www.pioneerliving.net/
Equipped To Survive Forum (Added 17 Jan 09): forums.equipped.org/ubbthreads.php?ubb=postlist&Board=1&page=1
Kids Primer: Equipped To Survive (Added 17 Jan 09): www.equipped.com/kidprimr.htm

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): "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."; www.fna.org/families
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
Internet Directory For Botany (Added 6 Sep 10): pbil.univ-lyon1.fr/JTHome/IDB/IDB/idb2.html
Plants Database (Added 9 Oct 10): US Dept of Agriculture; Culturally Significant Plants; plants.usda.gov
Plants Poisonous To Livestock (Added 9 Oct 10): www.ansci.cornell.edu/plants/index.html

Urban Resources

Unkown Victoria (Added 25 Jan 10): Blog of Ross Crockford, Victoria, writer of "Victoria: The Unknown City"; Index Of Previous Posts; unknownvictoria.blogspot.com

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): www.weatheroffice.gc.ca/canada_e.html
Humidity Tutorial (Added 12 Oct 09): Water, Changes in State and Latent Heat, Expressing Humidity, Adiabatic Processes and Lapse Rates, The Mountain; daphne.palomar.edu/jthorngren/humidity.htm
Weather Doctor (Added 27 May 07): "Exploring the Science and Poetry of Our Weather and Atmosphere"; BC; Dr. Keith C. Heidorn Nature Photo Gallery; www.islandnet.com/~see/weather/doctor.htm
Wind Chill (Added 27 May 07): Environment Canada; www.msc.ec.gc.ca/education/windchill/index_e.cfm

Wilderness Survival

Firemaking Techniques (Added 6 Jun 09): www.onagocag.com/fire.html
Flint Knapping (Added 6 Jun 09): www.onagocag.com/knapping.html
Primitive Skills FAQ (Added 6 Jun 09): www.hunter-gatherer.org/psg

My Seasonal Round-about @ UVic

Environmental & Ethno-Ecological-Botanical Web Resources

Environmental & Ethno-Ecological-Botanical
Web Resources