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Updated December 15, 2006
The Alberta Lepidopterists' Guild. (ALG) is a non-profit society made up of amateur and professional Lepidopterists. Their objective is to support and encourage the study and appreciation of Alberta Lepidoptera (butterflies and moths). They coordinate research projects, facilitate the exchange of information among members, and host events where people can collect and look at Lepidoptera and exchange information and ideas. They have an elected executive, and hold at least one annual general meeting to handle society business. They also host a members-only electronic bulletin board, and numerous scientific and social events throughout the province. Note particularly their "Faunal Inventory Projects" page that outlines a number of the projects in which ALG members have been involved with throughout Alberta.
Prairie and Northern Plant Diversity Centre (PNPDC) Courses.
The Alberta Natural Heritage Information Centre (ANHIC) and the Devonian Botanic Garden through the Prairie and Northern Plant Diversity Centre (PNPDC) work together on various issues related to plant diversity and conservation. The mandate of the Prairie and Northern Plant Diversity Centre (PNPDC) is to promote and facilitate the sustainable management of plant diversity through research, education, information services, and conservation activities.
As part of its educational mandate, the PNPDC is collaborating with ANHIC to develop botanical expertise, data, and enthusiasm throughout Alberta by providing high quality education and plant identification, collection, conservation and stewardship. These courses will be suitable for ecologists and botanists with a B.Sc., technical degree, or equivalent experience. Knowledge of basic biology is assumed, and these courses will be appropriate for land managers, consultants, and researchers/graduate students interested in professional development.
All courses that we plan on offering will be taught by instructors that are well recognized in their field.
The PNPDC also offers a data of >157,000 records of bryophytes housed in herbaria at the University of Alberta (Edmonton) and University of British Columbia (data courtesy of Dr W.B. Schofield, Vancouver). This database is the first of several collections databases that will be made available for online searching, and that form an integral part of the biodiversity research programme at the Devonian Botanic Garden.
Dragonflies of Alberta
Contains a checklist of the dragonfly and damselfly species of Alberta, an easy-to-use key for the dragonflies and damselflies of the province, instructions for making a dragonfly net, and a series of links to other notable odonate webpages.
NatureServe
Billed as the first-ever database on North American ecological communities—some 5000 types. This fine-grained information describes such rare habitats as a kind of longleaf pine forest found only in South Carolina. Among other plans, Stein says county and watershed-level species maps will be added in the coming year.
Bird Life International - Beaverhill Lake
Located approximately 60 km southeast of Edmonton near the town of Tofield, Alberta. Beaverhill Lake is an important waterfowl staging area (spring and fall) with more than 200,000 individuals regularly using the site each year.
The Montana Natural Resource Information System (NRIS)
Ddesigned to simplify the task of identifying and acquiring natural resource information. This site has information on Montana's natural heritage program, water systems and geographic systems.
The World Conservation Monitoring Centre
Provides information services on conservation and sustainable use of the world's living resources, and helps others to develop information systems of their own.
The U.S. Forest Service - Eastern Region
Provides information on conservation assessments of selected vascular plants.
World Wildlife Fund
Leads worldwide efforts to protect the world's threatened wildlife and the habitats they need to survive. We are different from other conservation organizations because of the major international scope of our programs.
Parks Canada
Web site will help you understand more about our national parks. You can find out about the programs offered by Parks Canada. It has a link to help you find out an answer to any of your questions, and it has a special section to help students to learn more about our country.
The Nature Conservancy (US)
One of the founding partners of the Alberta Natural Heritage Information Centre, has a web site full of information. It will tell you what's new, give you a glimpse into their work, look at what's happening both domestically and internationally and how to get involved. Its section on conservation science is great as well.
Canadian Biodiversity Information Network
One of the best ways to start finding out what is happening all across Canada in the area of Biodiversity.
The University of Alberta’s E.H. Strickland Entomological Museum
Provides a searchable database of its collections. The Museum contains one of the most significant insect collections in Canada. The collection contains approximately one million specimens and is made up of two sub-collections, the Research Collection and the Alberta Reference Collection. This website provides a number of tools for searching the Strickland Museum’s database. One of these tools is a Species Search that searches hundreds of species pages and provides links to specimen records. From the species page, the specimen records can be plotted on an Alberta map and a seasonal histogram.
Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research and Australian National Herbarium
A collaborative venture between the Department of the Environment and Heritage's Australian National Botanic Gardens and the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization's Division of Plant Industry.
