Mountain Environment Resources


Information-Resources, Data, and Images


National ParksNational Park Service Links

Park Net

Great Outdoors Recreation Pages

National Parks Flora and Fauna

National Parks of the Pacific Northwest

The Appalachian Trail

Yellowstone National Park


Glacier National ParkFederal Agencies

Bureau of Land Management (BLM)

United States Geological Survey(USGS)

United States Department of Agriculture(USDA)

Environmental Protection Agency(EPA)

US Fish and Wildlife Service


Additional Mountain Environment ResourcesBrown Bear

Resource Lists for Bears, Bighorn Sheep, and Mountain Lions.

Check out NMP's background page for additional links.

National Wildlife Federation in the Classroom

MESC Mountain Ecosystems Section

Organization of Biological Field Stations

Environmental News Network

The Mountain Institute

Albuquerque's Environmental Story

Sierra Club, Rocky Mountain Chapter

National Fish and Wildlife Forensics Laboratory

Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology

Earth Science Acronyms and Glossaries


Links to find information on GIS:

IDRISI GIS tutorial, gives some information about GIS

Boulder County, Colorado Land Use Department GIS page, some information on how it is used

General Geography and GIS sites - page down and find all kinds of GIS links

Edinburgh, UK What is GIS? Studying GIS,. etc. good link for info

Geographic Resources Analysis Support System (GRASS) more links, has demos for GIS

Montana Natural Resource Information Center Montana page that has GIS links for info This has everything needed to look at information for Montana. Kids can do their own data maps, even compare hazards in Butte, Montana and Russia

The GIS page for Montana


Some Stream and Erosion Resources

Groundwater Remediation Project - A Plethera of Internet-Accessible Software for Groundwater Modelling and Analysis

Illinois State Geological Survey: Groundwater and Geotechnical Group - has some good people contacts, not much data that is immediately obvious.

Union College Geology Department - A relatively complete "flip-book" created to to examine the sediments that were deposited during the Middle to Late Ordovician Period in the ocean that was then at the present site of the Mohawk River Valley of New York .

Groundwater Atlas Page

Groundwater of California and Nevada

NHRI Groundwater Research Group