Environmental History: Internet Sites

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Suggested Web Sites:

Conservation and Environment - "The historic and more recent maps contained in this category show early exploration and subsequent land use in various areas of the United States. These maps show the changes in the landscape, including natural and man-made features, recreational and wilderness areas, geology, topography, wetland area, vegetation, and wildlife. Specific conservation projects such as the growth and development of U.S. National Parks are included in this category."
- American Memory, Library of Congress

Environmental History Timeline - Background: This Environmental History Timeline originally appeared in Mass Media and Environmental Conflict, a book written by Mark Neuzil and William Kovarik published by Sage in 1996. The book won an American Library Association "Choice" award as one of the best academic books of 1997. The next year, the book's timeline was expanded and it was put on a Web site for general information. (from the web site)

Academic Info - Environmental History: Legal History

ENTRI (Environmental Treaties and Resource Indicators) - Find status data for environmental treaties, treaty text and other related information.

National Library for the Environment - A universal, timely, and easy-to-use single-point entry to environmental information and data for the use of all participants in the environmental enterprise. (from the web site)

The WWW Virtual Library: International Affairs Resources -- Global Environment - index of web sites on environmental topics.

USDA - National Agricultural Statistics Service - Historical Data

United States Federal Government Environmental Web Sites - The page provides one consolidated page for federal government environmental information on the World Wide Web. (from the web site)

National Center for Environmental Health History - Mission: To provide national leadership, through science and service, that promotes health and quality of life by preventing or controlling those diseases, birth defects, disabilities, or deaths. (from web site)

EnviroLink - Mission: EnviroLink is a non-profit organization... a grassroots online community that unites hundreds of organizations and volunteers around the world with millions of people in more than 150 countries. EnviroLink is dedicated to providing comprehensive, up-to-date environmental information and news. (from web site)

ENN (Environmental News Network)

Earth Day - 1970-2003 ~ 33 Years of Environmental Awareness
This site also gives links to other relevant environmental sites.

American Environmental Photographs, 1891-1936
"This collection consists of approximately 4,500 photographs documenting natural environments, ecologies, and plant communities in the United States at the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth century. Produced between 1891 and 1936 by a group of American botanists generally regarded as one of the most influential in the development of modern ecological studies, these photographs provide an overview of important representative natural landscapes across the nation. They demonstrate the character of a wide range of American topography, its forestation, aridity, shifting coastal dune complexes, and watercourses."
Images from the University of Chicago Library
- American Memory, Library of Congress

Associations, Organizations and Institutes

American Society for Environmental History

The Earth Council

The National Park Service: Links to the Past

Sierra Club - History

Discussion List

H-Environment