Natural Resources Web Resources

 

Agricultural Statistics

• Agriculture Fact Book 2001-2002 [USDA]
• California Agricultural Production Statistics [CDFA]
• FAOSTATFAO statistical databases [UN]
• National Agricultural Statistics Service [USDA]
• USDA Home Page 
• USDA Census of Agriculture 
• USDA Economics, Statistics and Market Information System
• USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service 

Agriculture

• AgBib - Agriculture and Rural Life in the United States (1820-1945) Includes 892 California publications from 1850-1945.
• Agricultural Issues Center [UC Davis]
• AgNIC - Agriculture Network Information Center 
• Agricultural Bibliographic Information Systems of the Netherlands 
• Agricultural Marketing Service [USDA]
• Agriculture Fact Book 2001-2002 - with other USDA publications 
• American Society of Agronomy 
• ATTRA - National Sustainable Agriculture Information Service  
• CAFF: Community Alliance with Family Farmers 
• California Agricultural Experiment Station Publications [Internet Archive]
• California Agricultural Resources Directory
• California Department of Food and Agriculture 
• California Environmental Resources Evaluation System (CERES) 
• California Invasive Plant Council (CAL-IPC) Invasive Plant Inventory  
• Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research 
• The Core Historical Literature of Agriculture - Mann Library, Cornell University  
• Crop Science Society of America 
• Distribution maps of plant pests 
• Encycloweedia - Information on California's noxious weeds 
• Extension Information Source - ADEC's E-answers 
• FAOSTAT - FAO statistical Databases 
• Farmer Direct Marketing [USDA]
• Food & Agriculture Organization (FAO)  
• List of journals indexed in Agricola 
• Local Harvest - resource for the "Buy Local movement" with a nationwide directory of small farms, farmers markets, and other local food sources
• National Agricultural Statistics Service [USDA]
• National Center for Appropriate Technology
• National Agricultural Library 
• National Agricultural Library Digital Repository (NALDR) 
• Postharvest Technology Research and Information Center [UC Davis]
• RiceOnline.com 
• SAGE - Sustainable Agriculture Education [Berkeley, CA]
• UC ANR Publications Catalog
• UC Cooperative Extension - Links to Programs and Offices 
• UC Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources  [UC ANR]
• UC IPM [University of California Statewide Integrated Pest Management Program]
• UrbanFood.org - Urban agriculture in Oakland, CA
• USDA Home Page 
• USDA National Organic Program

Entomology

• California Department of Pesticide Regulation 
• Distribution maps of plant pests 
• Essig Museum of Entomology [UCB]
• National Pesticide Information Center [Oregon State University and the EPA]
• Pierce's Disease Control Program [CDFA] 
• Plant Pathology Internet Guide Book Includes applied entomology.
• UC ANR Publications Catalog [UC Agriculture and Natural Resources]
• UC IPM [University of California Statewide Integrated Pest Management Program]
• Urban Bee Gardens [Urban Bee Project at UC Berkeley]

Environmental Science & Natural Resources

• Aldo Leopold Archives [University of Wisconsin Digital Collections]
• American Environmental Photographs [Library of Congress/University of Chicago Library] 
• CAFF: Community Alliance with Family Farmers 
• CalFed Bay Delta Program  
• California Department of Pesticide Regulation 
• California Invasive Plant Council (CAL-IPC) Formerly the California Exotic Plant Pest Council.
• California Invasive Plant Council (CAL-IPC) Invasive Plant Inventory  
• California Water Resources [Internet Archive]
• California Wildlife Habitat Relationships Systems 
• CERES [California Environmental Resources Evaluation System]
• EcoPort - Ecological Knowledge Portal 
• Encyclopedia of Earth
• Encycloweedia - Information on California's noxious weeds 
• ENVIROnetBASE [UCB-only access] A collection of over 500 books in all aspects of environmental science, earth sciences, and ecology.
• Information Center for the Environment [UC Davis]
• National Council for Science and the Environment 
• National Pesticide Information Center [Oregon State University and the EPA]
• Rangelands West 
• Sierra Nevada Ecosystem Project
• Sustainable Development Resources 
• UCBiotech.org [UC Biotechnology Workgroup] 
• Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy [University of Arizona] 
• VTM Photo Collection Historic maps and photographs from an early California vegetation type mapping project [UC Berkeley Bioscience Library]
• Water Information Center 
• World Resources Institute 

Food & Nutrition

• Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics 
• Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion [USDA]
• ChooseMyPlate.gov, part of the USDA Food Guidance System.
• Dietary Guidelines for Americans  [NAL/USDA]
• Dietary Supplements Labels Database [NLM]
• The Edible Schoolyard at Martin Luther King Junior Middle School in Berkeley, California, founded by Alice Waters.  
• FAOSTAT [FAO statistical databases]
• FDA Information for Consumers [US Food and Drug Administration]
• Feeding America: The Historic American Cookbook Project "... an online collection of some of the most important and influential American cookbooks from the late 18th to early 20th century" from Michigan State University.
• Food & Agriculture Organization [UN FAO]
• Food and Nutrient Database for Dietary Studies [USDA]
• Food Code [FDA]
• FOODnetBASE [UCB-only access] A collection of over 200 online books in food science and food chemistry
• International Food Information Council  Food safety information 
• Local Harvest  Resource for the "Buy Local movement" with a nationwide directory of small farms, farmers markets, and other local food sources 
• Longone Center for American Culinary Research "... a premier collection for the study of culinary Americana" at the William L. Clements Library, University Of Michigan 
• Martindale's Health Science Guide - Nutrition Center 
• Nutrition.gov Federal government information on nutrition 
• University of California Biotechnology 
• UrbanFood.org - Urban agriculture in Oakland, CA
• USDA - Food Surveys Research Group "To monitor and assess food consumption and related behavior of the U.S. population..."
• USDA - Nutrient Data Laboratory Includes information published in Agriculture Handbook no.8, Composition of Foods. 

Forestry

• Forestry AgNIC [Agriculture Network Information Center]
• Aldo Leopold Archives [University of Wisconsin Digital Collections]
• American Conifer Society  
• American Environmental Photographs 1891-1936 [University of Chicago Library] 
• American Woods, "exhibited by actual specimens and with copious explanatory text by Romeyn Beck Haugh." [Digital version from North Carolina State University Libraries' Special Collections Research Center.]
• Bibliography of Dendrochronology
• California Oak Mortality Task Force  
• Canadian Forest Service 
• Center for Fire Research and Outreach [University of California Berkeley, College of Natural Resources]
• E.V. Komarek Fire Ecology Database [Tall Timbers]
• Forest History Society
• Fred Dickinson & his contributions to the Forest Products Laboratory [UC Berkeley Bioscience Library]
• Fritz-Metcalf Photograph Collection [UC Berkeley Bioscience Library]
• Global Forest Information Service
• Horace M. Albright Lectures in Conservation [lecture series at UCB's College of Natural Resources]
• Integrated Hardwood Range Management Program [UC ANR]
• Monitoring Sudden Oak Death in California [Kelly Research and Outreach Lab]
• Rangelands West 
• Rudy Grah Memorial Agroforestry Collection [UCB Bioscience Library]
• Society of American Foresters
• Treesearch [USDA Forest Service Research & Development publications]
• USDA Forest Service 
• University of California Berkeley Forest Science Tree Trail
• University of California Forest Research and Outreach
• Vegetation and Plant Distribution Maps Checklist [UCB Earth Sciences Library]
• VTM Photo Collection Historic maps and photographs from an early California vegetation type mapping project [UC Berkeley Bioscience Library]
• Wildland Fire Research Group [UC Berkeley]

Plant Pathology

• APSnet [American Phytopathological Society]
• GRIN TAXONOMY [USDA/ARS Germplasm Resources Information Network] 
• Plant Pathology Internet Guide Book [Institute for Plant Diseases, Univ. of Bonn, Germany] 
• Plant Viruses Online [database from the University of Idaho]
• UC ANR Publications Catalog [University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources]

Soils

• Kearney Foundation of Soil Science 
• Keys to Soil Taxonomy [USDA NRCS]
• Pygmy Forest Ecological Staircase: A Description and Interpretation by UC Berkeley Professor Emeritus Hans Jenny [California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection]
• Soil Science Society of America
• Soils Survey Division [USDA NRCS]
• USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service

Wildlife Management

• California Department of Fish and Game
• California Wildlife Habitat Relationships
• International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources
• U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service