Search for U.S. Government Publications and Websites
Selected Websites
| Department of Agriculture | |
| US, Canadian, and Mexican agencies and organization, and specialists have cooperated to produce taxonomy of American biota. | |
| Information about ~83,000 plant taxa that occur in the United States. | |
| National Park Service. National list of invasive plants, background information on the problem of invasive species, plant descriptions, native range, distribution and habitat in the U.S., management options, suggested alternative native plants, and other information, and selected links to relevant people and organizations. | |
| Department of Energy | |
| Articles and links related to genomes divided into six sections - About, Education, Research, Medicine, Ethical, Legal and Social Issues. | |
| more than 27,000 full text scientific and technical reports searchable by author, title, laboratory, sponsoring organization, subject, keywords, dates, etc. | |
| Environmental Protection Agency | |
| Information on effects of chemicals on plants and animals, 1970 - . | |
| Department of the Interior | |
| Information and links arranged in eighteen subjects, including birds, endangered species, habitat conservation, environmental quality, fire management, wetlands, etc. | |
| List of endangered and threatened species, species information, laws, policies, activities, publications, contacts, etc. | |
| National Wildlife Health Center | The mission of the National Wildlife Health Center is to serve the nation and its natural resources by providing sound science and technical support, and to disseminate information to promote science-based decisions affecting wildlife and ecosystem health. The NWHC provides information, technical assistance, research, education, and leadership on national and international wildlife health issues. |
| Searchable bibliographic database related to North American waterfowl and wetlands. Indexes about 150 periodicals, as well as theses, dissertations, book chapters, and conference proceedings, dating from the mid 1800s to 1994. More recent data is continually added. | |
| Categories include aquatics, herbs, vines, shrubs, and trees. For each group there are descriptions, habitat and distribution, native range, management approaches, and other information. Also included is background information and links concerning invasive species. | |
| National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration | |
| Detailed information on all types of marine mammals, including whales; both baleen - right, bowhead, gray, humpback and blue, and toothed - including sperm, beluga, North Pacific bottlenosed and narwhals. Also included with whales are bottlenose, La Plata, and Pacific whitesided dolphins, and Dall's porpoises. Information on marine mammal science is also covered along with data about pursuing a career in marine mammal science. Includes a list of endangered marine mammals. | |
| Information about fish, news, reports, links to laboratories, etc. | |
| over 1,000 selected, annotated links to science and policy sites organized by topic and alphabetically within topic. Topics include fisheries; marine birds, ecology, mammals, pollution, etc. | |
| National Science Foundation | |
| Oak Ridge National Laboratory - Computational Biology | Information about genomic sequencing, computational genome analysis, computational protein structure analysis, high-performance biocomputing, bioinformation systems, biosystems modeling, and genetics information management. |
| Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History Department of Systematic Biology | Publications, databases, taxonomic information, images, links, etc., in botany, entomology, and vertebrate ad invertebrate zoology. |
| United States Geological Survey Biological Resources | Information about invasive and endangered species, links to educational materials, images of species. |
| Information pertinent to declines in amphibian populations. | |
| Photographs, distribution maps, brief descriptions. | |
| Links and information about Montana animal and plant species, climate, ecology, agency strategies and policies, etc. | |
| Information and links arranged by type, taxon, geographical location. Includes checklists for birds, mammals, fish, amphibians and reptiles, and invertebrates for U.S. states and territories; distributions maps; species descriptions, software, literature reviews, and much more. | |
| Bibliographies, reports, maps, etc. about conservation requirements for various species such as grizzly bears, bison, amphibians; ecology, management, climate change, etc. |