Miscellaneous ENVS225 Information and Links
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Skunk Cabbage on Campus
Other Pics on Skunk Cabbage Page
Former Web Sites of the Week:
NBII Frogweb
USGS Amphibian Checklist
and Identification Guide
Short On-line video
on tetrapod evolution
TNC
Pendleton Island preserve
(for mussel protection)
Landowner's Guide to Managing Streams
in the Eastern United States
Proposed actions
on the
Jefferson National Forests
Images and information on
Skunk Cabbage
Bird feeder Web-cam (Indianapolis, Indiana)
Another Bird-feeder web-cam
Blowing Rock, NC (reloads by itself)
Eminent Evolutionary Biologist Ernst Mayr
Died
Last Thursday at age 100.
Listen to a
brief summary of his life and work.
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Website for the summer:
Information on the recently re-discovered
Ivory-Billed Woodpecker
including a little video clip.
Information on sustainable
forestry
and forestry facts in SW Virginia
Information on Logging in Virginia:
VA Department of Forestry
One organization devoted to forest protection is:
Virginia Forest Watch
Washington Post article on
Logging in Appalachia (E&H access)
Article on
Animal Winter Survival Adaptations
Article on
Passenger Pigeons
with photos of (stuffed) birds.
For a sampling of world diversity,
here are 119 photos of the
318 species of
pigeons and doves
WWF site on
Appalachian forest diversity
Physiographic Map
of Virginia
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The first
Take-home test (2005)