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The following resources are provided by organizations, companies, and individuals, which can help nature photographers in running their business, locating resources, or planning trips. Most are government agencies and information is free.

Attractions - Parks, Forests, Outdoor Destinations
Great Outdoor Recreation Pages (GORP)
URL: http://www.gorp.com/gorp/resource/main.htm
This Web page has extensive information on parks, forests, wildlife areas, wilderness areas, scenic drives and more - in North America and around the world.

Biological Resources Division (BRD) - USGS
U.S. Department of the Interior
Office of Public Affairs, Mail Stop 302
12201 Sunrise Valley Drive
Reston, VA 20192
Tel: 703-648-4283
Fax: 703-648-4224
Email: catherine_puckett@usgs.gov
URL: http://biology.usgs.gov/
The BRD mission is to work with others to provide the scientific understanding and technologies needed to support the sound management and conservation of America's biological resources. They make data and information on the America's biological resources more accessible to more people at their Web site.

Center for Plant Conservation (CPC)
Missouri Botanical Garden
P.O. Box 299
St. Louis, MO 63166-0299
Tel: 314-577-5100
Email: cpc@mobot.org
URL: http://www.mobot.org/CPC/
The CPC, headquartered at the Missouri Botanical Garden in St. Louis, is dedicated to conserving rare plants native to the United States in an integrated plant conservation context through a collaborative national program of off-site plant conservation, research, and education. Web site has information about plants in peril and seed storage, and has links to other plant conservation Web sites.

Cetacean Society International (CSI)
P.O. Box 953
Georgetown, CT 06829
Tel: 203-544-8617
Fax: 203-544-8617
Email: 71322.1637@compuserve.com
URL: http://csiwhalesalive.org/
CSI is an all volunteer, non-profit, tax-exempt conservation, education, and research organization based in the USA, with volunteer representatives in 26 countries around the world. CSI is dedicated to the preservation and protection of all cetaceans (whales, dolphins and porpoises) and the marine environment on a global basis. Links to other cetacean-related Web sites are available at their Web site.

Eagle Page from Rocky Mountain High
Email: emily@sky.net
URL: http://www.sky.net/~emily/eagle.html
This Web resource contains extensive information about eagles and raptors, as well as other birds. Information includes mailing lists, legislation, books, eagle poems and songs, U.S. and state programs, preserves and other resources.

Endangered Species Home Page
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Division of Endangered Species
Mail Stop 452ARLSQ
1849 C St., NW
Washington, D.C. 20240
Email: R9FWE_DES.BIM@fws.gov
URL: http://www.fws.gov/r9endspp/endspp.html
Their Web site contains information regarding endangered species in the US including lists of species and counts, box scores, state counts, state lists, and information on recovery activities.

Florida and Caribbean Science Center
7920 N.W. 71st Street
Gainesville, FL 32653-3071
Tel: 352-378-8181
Fax: 352-378-4956
URL: http://fisc.er.usgs.gov/
This web site publishes a number of web reports, research documents, and additional links devoted to answering the regional ecological questions raised by both manmade and natural environmental changes in the southeastern United States and Caribbean Basin.

Guide to the National Wildlife Refuges by Laura & William Riley
Published by Macmillan General Reference, 1993, ISBN: 0020636601
201 West 103rd Street
Indianapolis, Indiana 46290
Tel: 800-428-5331
URL: Amazon.com
This book is a guide to some 225 federal preserves across the United States, from Rhode Island's postage-stamp-sized Ninigret to Alaska's 19.5 million-acre Arctic reserves, both homes to a wide range of wildlife.

Instituto Nacional De Estadistica, Geografia E Informatica (INEGI)
National Institute of Statistics, Geography and Data
URL: http://www.inegi.gob.mx/
Mexico´s INEGI is in charge of generating, incorporating, processing and publishing information on the country´s physical environment, geographical features and natural resources, and on its population and productive activities. Web site is a good source of geographical information. Has centers for purchasing publications, maps, etc.

L.L. Bean's Park Search
URL: http://www.llbean.com/
Internet search tool which allows the user to search America's parks and forests by region, state, name, activity or service. Search results provide park addresses, phone numbers, picnic facilities, campgrounds, visitor centers, fees (if any), and more. Areas include state parks, national parks, national wildlife refuges, national forests, and Bureau of Land Management lands.

National Park Service
U.S. Department of the Interior
P.O. Box 37127
Washington, D.C. 20013-7127
Tel: 202-208-6843
Fax: 202-219-0910
Email: waso_public_affairs@nps.gov
URL: http://www.nps.gov/
Provides information about U.S. national parks, including visitor information, historical and cultural information, and information regarding natural resources in the parks.

National Wildlife Refuge System
Public Affairs Office
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
1849 C St., NW, MIB 3012
Washington, D.C. 20240
Tel: 202-208-4131, 800-344-WILD
Fax: 202-208-6965
Email: Craig_Rieben@mail.fws.gov
URL: http://refuges.fws.gov/
Provides information (including a searchable database) about the individual units of the Refuge System, threatened and endangered species, wildlife, plants, wildlife management, habitat management, special management areas, cultural resources and other topics related to the management and operation of National Wildlife Refuge System.

Nature's Best Photography Magazine
P.O. Box 10070
McLean, VA 22102 USA

Courier Adress for FedEx:
11411C Sunset Hills Road
Reston, VA 20190 USA

Toll-free: 888-884-5999
Local: 703-467-9783
Fax: 703-467-9785
Email: info@naturesbestmagazine.com
URL: http://www.naturesbestmagazine.com/

Outdoor Photographer Magazine
12121 Wilshire Blvd
Suite 1200
Los Angeles, CA 90025-1175
USA
Phone: 310-820-1500 x723
Fax: 310-826-5008
URL: http://www.outdoorphotographer.com/

Parks Canada
25 Eddy Street
Hull, Quebec
Canada K1A 0M5
Tel: 819-997-0055
Fax: 819-953-8770
Email: Parks_Webmaster@pch.gc.ca
URL: http://parkscanada.pch.gc.ca/
Provides information on Canada's national parks and world heritage sites, archaeology, natural sciences, fees and reservations. This information is available online at their Web site.

Recreation.GOV
URL: http://www.recreation.gov/
Recreation.GOV offers information from all of the U.S. federal land management agencies and allows you to search for recreation sites by state, by agency, or by recreational activity.

Species in Parks - Flora and Fauna Database
Email: info@ice.ucdavis.edu
URL: http://ice.ucdavis.edu/nps/
The Information Center of the Environment, in conjunction with the National Park Service, has developed a preliminary database of vascular plant and vertebrate animal species within lands owned by the U.S. National Park Service. Access to the database is via the Web site.

U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM)
U.S. Department of the Interior
Office of Public Affairs
1849 C Street, Room 504-LS
Washington, DC 20240
Tel: 202-452-5124
Email: woinfo@wo.blm.gov
URL: http://www.blm.gov/
Provides information about its management and use of a wide variety of resources on over 264 million acres of land, including energy and minerals, timber, forage, wild horse and burro populations, fish and wildlife habitat, recreation sites, wilderness areas, and archaeological and historical sites.

USDA Forest Service
201 14th Street, S.W.
Washington, DC 20250
Tel: 202-205-1760
Fax: 202-205-0885
Email: awilson/wo@fs.fed.us
URL: http://www.fs.fed.us/
Provides information about publications, maps, recreation areas in the national forests and grasslands, campground reservations, fall color and wildflower information.

USGS Earth and Environmental Science Internet Resources
USGS Information Services
Box 25286
Denver Federal Center
Denver, CO 80225
Tel: 303-202-4700
Fax: 303-202-4693
Email: esicmail@usgs.gov
URL: http://www.usgs.gov/science/
Links to Earth and environmental science, biology, atmospheric science, astronomy and space science on the Internet provided by the USGS as a service to the research community.

World Heritage
The UNESCO World Heritage Centre
7, place de Fontenoy
75352 Paris 07 SP
France
Tel: 33-(0)1-4568-1889
Fax: 33-(0)1-4568-5570
Email: wh-info@unesco.org
URL: http://www.unesco.org/whc/
The World Heritage Committee defines and conserves the world's most important environmental and cultural sites, including many parks and cultural sites in Canada, Mexico and the United States.
 
 
 
 
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