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last updated 5-5-25
Local Conservation:
Alachua Conservation Trust: a highly effective land conservation/restoration trust in North Central Florida. Major projects include habitat, spring and corridor protection along the Santa Fe and Suwanee Rivers and a number of smaller, significant local preserves open to the public.
East Quabbin Land Trust: land and historical conservation in central Massachusetts in the towns of the East Quabbin region. EQLT has a remarkable number and diversity of projects, especially for an organization of its size.
University of Florida Natural Area Teaching Lab: a large natural area on the southwest of the UF campus for teaching and walking. Features trails through a number of natural and human maintained systems including an upland long leaf pine forest, oak hammock, and wetlands (with boardwalk) and picnic area.
Natural History:
The singing insects of North America: photos, distribution maps, bibliographies, and best of all, recordings of songs - presented by Dr. Tom Walker at the University of Florida.
K. Lisa Yang Center for Conservation Bioacoustics (Cornell): about birds and bioacoustics in general
A controlled burn designed to help to restore the longleaf pine area at UF NATL.
Professional Societies ( I am pleased to belong to some of these organizations):
The American Arachnological Society -- links to many websites dealing with spiders and arachnids, listings of opportunities for graduate studies in arachnology.
The Animal Behavior Society (ABS) - includes information on animal behavior and teaching
The Society for Conservation Biology (SCB) -- includes resources for students and those interested in biological conservation
The Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB) -- mostly society information, for nonmembers there is a page of useful links.
The Orthopterists' Society: taxonomic and other information about orthopterans presented by the International Orthopterists' Society
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