New Feature: Southeast Watershed Forum Community Resource Mapper
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This month the Southeast Watershed Forum launches a new and valuable resource for land and water protection. The Community Resource Mapper provides a free, user-friendly, on-line mapping service that will help communities integrate natural resource protection into their land use planning efforts.
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Asian carp cause problems in the region's waterways The lower Ohio, Tennessee, Cumberland and Mississippi rivers are suggering from invasive species bighead carp and silver carp that pose a danger to boaters and compete with native fish species. ( Wednesday, August 20, 2008 )
How little we know: Study hints at depths of life in the Smokies Discover Life in America, a Gatlinburg-based nonprofit, is the managing agency for the All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory, an ongoing study with the ambitious goal of cataloging all life forms within the park's boundaries. ( Wednesday, August 20, 2008 )
Delta Queen spills oil into Cumberland The Delta Queen paddlewheeler has spilled about 60 gallons of waste oil into the Cumberland River. Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency officials responded and found the spill was stopped quickly enough that there was no significant threat to fish or animals. ( Tuesday, August 19, 2008 )
Restoring Alabama's coast The Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, State Lands Division and the Dauphin Island Sea Lab have partnered to conduct extensive habitat restoration, monitoring and research along the Alabama coast. This historic partnership will provide $1.5 million to the DISL over the next three years for research and conservation activities. ( Monday, August 18, 2008 )
Bigfoot Discovery Declared a Hoax No evidence has emerged to support claims made last week by two men who said they found the corpse of a seven-foot-tall (two-meter-tall) Bigfoot-an apelike creature of North American legend-in the woods of northern Georgia. ( Monday, August 18, 2008 )
NBII Custom Search Now Available The NBII Custom Search is available on the upper right side of your screen on all NBII pages. Use it to search all NBII sites, all U.S. Geological Survey Web sites, and select high quality biological information sites.
Community Resource Mapper Now Available The Southeast Watershed Forum Community Resource Mapper provides a free, user-friendly, on-line mapping service that will help communities integrate natural resource protection into their land use planning efforts.
Frogs and toads of the region are now spotlighted under the SAIN Animals and Plants of the Region: Amphibians pages. With 42 species, regional frogs and toads include narrow-mouthed toads, neotropical frogs, tree frogs, true frogs, and spadefoots. The new pages present regional species with state distributions grouped by genera with links to detailed NatureServe species profiles and National Wildlife Federation species overviews. For a geographic perspective of frogs and toads of the Southern Appalachian region, visit the SAIN Frogs and Toads (order Anura) pages.
Invertebrates of the region are now featured under SAIN Animals and Plants of the Region. Invertebrate populations in the Southeast are global center of biodiversity. More importantly, invertebrates are a critical component of many healthy ecosystems. Reflecting the importance of invertebrates, SAIN has developed content about both freshwater and terrestrial invertebrate taxonomic orders including gastropods such as snails, decapods such as crayfish, and mollusks such as freshwater clams. For more information about invertebrates of the Southern Appalachian region, visit the new SAIN Invertebrates pages.
The NBII Program is administered by the Biological Informatics Office of the U.S. Geological Survey
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