For links and information pertaining to BIRDS and BIRD WATCHING, click here

• The Nature Conservancy
• United Nations Environment Programme
• Environmental Working Group - Learn how much individual farmers get from gov. subsidies, also see if your elected officials take money from the big three car makers to help continue to sell bigger and bigger trucks/cars.
  
• Save Open Space - learn about a plan to develop a large tract of land in the Santa Monica Mountains (critical to various plant and animal species) including 3050 housing units, a golf course, hotel and more! --- see in particular WaMu's Spin!
  
• Forest Tree Notes from the Cloquet (MN) Forestry Center
• eNature
  
• Zumbro Valley Audubon Society (see Bob Ekblad's page)
  
• California Wildflower Update - by Desert USA
  
• Bluff Country, in South East Minnesota
  
• Twin Cities Parks and Nature Centers
  
• Park Rapids, MN; see Birding in the Park Rapids Area
  
• Journey North - A Global Study of Wildlife Migration (simply Excellent)
  
• The World Conservation Union (IUCN)
  
• IUCN Biodiversity is life! page
  Minnesota has a great State Park System. Learn about it here:
• Minnesota Department of Natural Resources
  Here are the parks I have visited and look forward to visiting again:
• ----Afton State Park
  
• ----Beaver Creek Valley State Park
  
• ----Fort Ridgely State Park
  
• ----Fort Snelling State Park
  
• ----Frontenac State Park
  
• ----Gooseberry Falls State Park
  
• ----Grand Portage State Park
  
• ----Great River Bluffs State Park
  
• ----Itasca State Park
  
• ----Lake Shetek State Park
  
• ----William O'Brien State Park
  
• ----Savanna Portage State Park
  
• ----Temperance River State Park
  
• ----Rice Lake State Park
  
• ----Tamarac National Wildlife Refuge and another page for Tamarac National Wildlife Refuge
  
• ----Whitewater State Park
  Wisconsin has several wonderful places to visit, including
• Crex Meadows
• Minnesota Conservation Federation
  -- 13% of Minnesota lakes no longer support swimming, 41% of assessed river miles are impaired by pollution and an additional 36% are considered threatened because of these chemicals.
• The Fund for Animals
  
• United Animal Nations
  
• Animal Place
  
• Farm Sanctuary
  
• Friends of the Earth
  
• H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest
  
• Save Our Envinroment
  
• Friends of Animals
  
• Nature Smart
  
• Audubon Online
  
• Minnesota Native Plant Society
  
• UW Madison Virtual Foliage Home Page
  
• Earthjustice - legal defense fund
  
• Green Mountain, clean energy for Californians
  
• World Wildlife Fund Global Network
  
• Center for Marine Conservation
  
• National Parks and Conservation Association
  
• National Wildlife Federation
  
• Natural Resources Defense Council
  
• The National Arbor Day Foundation
  
• Defenders of Wildlife
  
• ASPCA
  
• International Fund for Animal Welfare
  
• Environmental Defense Fund
  
• The Wilderness Society
  
• Sierra Club
  
• NAVS
  
• AAVS
  
• Stephen Koury's Wildlife Gallery - you can purchase his paintings here
  
• Varmint Al's Hunting Page
  
• Save Patrick Eagan Park - The last natural park of the city of Eagan, MN, is sought after by some to make a golf course.
  
• Golfers also want a piece of the wonderful Theodore Wirth Park in Golden Valley, MN - learn more here and here
  

• Indian Point Campground, Duluth, MN
• Lake Shetek State Park, Murray County, MN
  
• Talcot Lake County Park, Cottonwood County, MN
  
• Lazy D Campground, near Winona, MN
  

• City of Orlando, FL, Parks Bureau (see Orlando Wetlands Park)
  
• Orlando Welands Park - more info.
  
• Birds of Polk County, Florida, by Charles Geanangel
  
• Lake Wales Ridge Ecosystem Working Group (includes link to Bok Tower Gardens)
  
• Lake Kissimmee State Park