BES 489 Spring 2006

Ecoregion Project - Some Helpful Resources

I. Books / Reports / Maps at the UWB Library

1. Books in Reference Stacks at UWB Library (Non-circulating):

Arno, S. 1977. Northwest Trees. Mountaineers Press, Seattle. [QK484.P3 A75]

Burt, W.H. and R.P. Grossenheider. 1976. Mammals: a field guide to the mammals of North America north of Mexico. Peterson Field Guides series. Houghton-Mifflin Publishing Company. [QL715 B8 1976]

Cooke, S. 1997. A Field Guide to the Common Wetland Plants of Western Washington and Northwestern Oregon. Seattle Audubon Society. [QK192 .F53 1997]

Franklin, J.F. and C.T. Dyrness. 1988. Natural vegetation of Oregon and Washington. USDA Forest Service General Technical Report PNW-8. [QK182 .F72 1988]

Guard, J. 1995. Wetland Plants of Oregon and Washington. Lone Pine Press. [QK144 .G83 1995]

Johnson, D.H. and T.A. O’Neil. 2001. Wildlife-Habitat Relationships in Oregon and Washington. Oregon State University Press. [QH105.O7 W565 2001]

Kozloff, E. 1993. Seashore life of the northern Pacific coast : an illustrated guide to northern California, Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia. University of Washington Press. [QH95.7 .K64 1993]

Maser, C. 1998. Mammals of the Pacific Northwest : from the coast to the high Cascades. Oregon State University Press. [QL719.O7 M37 1998]

Nussbaum, R.A., E.D. Brodie Jr., and R.M. Storm. 1983. Amphibians and reptiles of the Pacific Northwest. University of Idaho Press. [QL653 N95 N87 1983]

O’Conner, G. and K. Wieda. 2001. Northwest arid lands: an introduction to the Columbia Basin shrub-steppe. Batelle Press. Columbus, Ohio. [QH104.5.C64 O36 2001]

Pojar, J. and A. McKinnon. 1994. Plants of the Pacific Northwest coast : Washington, Oregon, British Columbia & Alaska. Lone Pine Press [QK143 .P53 1994]

Taylor, R.J. 1992. Sagebrush Country : a wildflower sanctuary. Mountain Press. [QK141 .T39 1992]

Wassink, J.L. 1995. Birds of the Pacific Northwest Mountains : the Cascade Range, the Olympic Mountains, Vancouver Island, and the Coast Mountains. Mountain Press. [QL683.N75 W37 1995]

Whitney, S. 1989. A Sierra Club naturalist's guide to the Pacific Northwest : Oregon, Washington, Idaho, western Montana, and the coastal forests of northern California, British Columbia, and southeastern Alaska. Sierra Club Books. [QH104.5.N6 W47 1989]

2. Books on Reserve for our specific class (BES 489) at UWB Library:

Agee, J.K. 1993. Fire Ecology of Pacific Northwest Forests. Island Press. [SD144.A13 A55 1993]

Alt, D. and D.W. Hyndman. 1995. Northwest exposures: a geologic story of the Pacific Northwest. Mountain Press Publishing Company, Missoula. [QE79 A46 1995]

Lasmanis, R. and E.S. Cheney. 1994. Regional geology of Washington State. Washington State Department of Natural Resources. Bulletin 80. [QE175 S95 1992]

McNulty, T. 2003. Olympic Nation Park: a natural history. University of Washington Press.

[QH105.W2 M37 2003]

Schoonmaker, P.K., von Hagen, B. and E.C. Wolf. 1997. The rain forests of home: profile of a North American bioregion. Island Press. [QH104.5.P32 R35 1997]

Tomback, D.F., S.F. Arno and R.E. Keane. 2001. Whitebark Pine Communities: Ecology and Restoration. Island Press. [QK494.5.P66 W55 2001]

3. Books I have (see me)

Nature Conservancy, The. 1999. Biodiversity Inventory and Analysis of the Hanford Site. Final Report: 1994 – 1999. The Nature Conservancy of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA.

II. Other Books / Reports (most are available at UW Seattle Libraries)

Ingles, L.G. 1965. Mammals of the pacific states: California, Oregon and Washington.

Boling, M., B. Frazier, and A. Busacca. 1998. General soil map of Washington. Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, Washington State University Maps [G4281.J3 1998 .B6 in General Map Cases in the Basement of Suzallo Library]

Daubenmire, R. and J.B. Daubenmire. 1968. Forest vegetation of eastern Washington and northern Idaho. Washington Agricultural Experiment Station, Washington State University. Technical bulletin 60. [QK192 .D34 UWS Forest Resources Library Stacks]

Daubenmire, R. 1975. State of Washington botanical features [map] Separated from: Washington environmental atlas / prepared by Environmental Resources Section, Seattle District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. [G4281.D2 1975 .U5 in General Map Cases in the Basement of Suzallo Library UWS]

Daubenmire. R. 1988. Steppe vegetation of Washington. Washington Agricultural Experiment Station Technical Bulletin. [QK192 .D35 1988 Suzallo/Allen Stacks UWS - also a 1970 edition]

Johnson, D.H. and T.A. O’Neil. 2001.Wildlife Habitat Relationships in Oregon and Washington. Oregon State University Press. A guide to maintaining biological diversity and viable ecosystems. Information of 593 wildlife species and their relationships with the 32 terrestrial, freshwater, and marine habitat types of OR and WA. [QH105.O7 W565 2001 in UWS Forest Resources Library closed stacks]

Series of volumes on soils of each county in Washington State. The following volume is an example (other counties should be right next to this on shelves):

Soil survey of Whatcom County Area, Washington. 1992. United States Department of Agriculture, Soil Conservation Service ; in cooperation with the Washington State Department of Natural Resources and the Washington State University Agriculture Research Center, Washington, D.C. [S599.W32 G65 1992 in UWS Forest Resources Library Stacks and Natural Sciences Library Stacks]

III. Web Resources

Virtual Atlas of the Pacific Northwest (http://academic.evergreen.edu/projects/virtualatlas/): general maps of climate, soils, vegetation and links.

King County Water and Land Resources Department (http://dnr.metrokc.gov/wlr/index.htm)

Land Use History of North America book (http://biology.usgs.gov/luhna/) esp. Chp 10 on the Palouse

Northwest Habitat Institute (http://www.nwhi.org/ibis/home/ibis.asp)

Pacific Biodiversity Institute (http://www.pacificbio.org/)

Publication list of the Pacific Northwest Region Forest Service Research Station (http://www.fs.fed.us/pnw/publications/complete-list.shtml)

Status and Trends of Pacific Northwest Ecosystems: a 1995 US Forest Service Report

(http://biology.usgs.gov/s+t/SNT/noframe/pn169.htm)

(http://biology.usgs.gov/s+t/SNT/noframe/idx-pn.htm)

(http://biology.usgs.gov/s+t/SNT/noframe/pn169r.htm)

University of Washington Library Links for Maps and GIS databases

(http://www.lib.washington.edu/subject/USMaps/dr/elnum.html)

University of Washington Atmospheric Sciences department links to Washington weather and climate info (http://www.atmos.washington.edu/data/)

US Bureau of Land Management Washington and Oregon District (covers mostly eastern Washignton)

(http://www.blm.gov/or/index.htm )

US Department of Agriculture Electronic Photo Archive (http://www.usda.gov/oc/photo/opcphsea.htm)

USDA-NRCS National Web Soil Survey Center (http://websoilsurvey.nrcs.usda.gov/app/)

Washington Naturemapping Program (http://www.fish.washington.edu/naturemapping/)

Washington State Climate Data (http://www-k12.atmos.washington.edu/k12/grayskies/wa_climate.html)

Washington GAP Analysis Program Homepage: a large scale project to identify critical habitat areas and “gaps” in their protection. (http://www.fish.washington.edu/naturemapping/wagap/public_html/index.html)

Washington State Department of Agriculture Weeds Site (http://agr.wa.gov/PlantsInsects/Weeds/default.htm)

Washington State Noxious Weed Control Board (http://www.nwcb.wa.gov/)

Washington State Dept of Natural Resources (http://www.wa.gov/dnr/)

Washington State Dept of Ecology (http://www.ecy.wa.gov/)

Washington State Dept of Fish and Wildlife GAP Analysis information and data page

(http://www.wdfw.wa.gov/wlm/gap/dataprod.htm)

Washington State Dept of Fish and Wildlife – Wildlife Science Resources (http://wdfw.wa.gov/wildlife.htm)

Washington State Natural Heritage Program (http://www.dnr.wa.gov/nhp/)

Washington Native Plant Society (http://www.wnps.org/)

Western Washington University Library Pacific Northwest Native Plant Information Database

(http://www.library.wwu.edu/lmt/page.phtml?page_id=104)

Wildlife of the Pacific Northwest (and some limited other info such as climate) (defined much more broadly - S. Alaska to N. Calif.): http://www.naturepark.com/wild.htm

PNW Ecology links at the bottom of my home page: http://faculty.washington.edu/wgold/

Look into web sites for federal and state lands of the region you are studying. For example, if you were studying the Okanogan plateau you would want to visit the web site for the Loomis State Forest and the US Forest Service Colville National Forest. These land management agencies can be identified from Washington State maps.

IV. Library / Search Resources

Rob Estes, science librarian can assist you with this search (or any other reference librarian for that matter).

Use the UW Library Catalog search utility or many of the CD-ROM databases available (e.g., BIOSIS, etc.). See our knowledgeable librarians for help with this.

Also you can find electronic web sources of information on various topics (e.g., birds of our region, etc.) that are UW-access only (by UW subscription). These can be found by searching the UW library catalog using appropriate keywords.

Science Citation Index: a web-based search service for scientific journal articles (usable on UW computers). SCI can be used to search for articles based on keywords, titles and authors' names. One of its most powerful features is its ability to search for articles in which a certain author has been cited. Thus, if you know that "R. Daubenmire" wrote a lot of stuff about the Palouse Prairie, you can search for articles that cite his works as a reference.

To use it, from the Library Gateway choose "databases & catalogs". Click on "S-T". Scroll down to "Science Citation Index - UW Restricted". This leads you into the search utility.

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