• Local Nature Blogs
• Squirrel's View - Field Notes From The Eastern Panhandle Of West Virginia And Beyond
• Birds Etcetera - (previously) local birder's blog
• Fauna
• Arlene Ripley's Nest Box
• Baltimore Bird Club
• Bird Clubs in North America (via The Binocular Site)
• Birding Pal - Find a birding pal anywhere you travel
• Breeding Bird Survey and Other Things at the Patuxent Wildlife Research Center
• Brooks Bird Club
• Butterflies and Moths of North America
• Butterflies and Butterfly Gardening in West Virginia - from the WVU Extension Service Wildlife page.
• Chesapeake Wildlife Heritage
• Fern Wildlife Refuge -Rescue, rehabilitation, and release of orphaned, injured, and displaced wildlife for Winchester and all surrounding counties
• Hawk Mountain Sanctuary and Other Raptor Sites
• Insects of West http://www.insectsofwestvirginia.net Virginia
• Larval Hostplant List for Butterflies of the Washington, DC Area
• The Maryland Ornithological Society
• National Audubon Society
• North American Bluebird Society
• Northern Virginia Bird Club
• Patuxent Wildlife Research Center
• State of the Birds
• Three Rivers Avian Center in Summers County, WV
• Virtual Birder - WV page
• Washington Area Butterfly Club
• West Virginia Bird Checklist
• West Virginia DNR Birding page including Breeding Bird Atlas
• West Virginia Bird Listserv
• West Virginia Raptor Rehabilitation Program
• WindStar Wildlife Institute

• Native Plant Societies
• Maryland Native Plant Society
• Virginia Native Plant Society
• West Virginia Native Plant Society
• List of Most All Native Plant Societies - U.S. and Canadian - from Michigan Botanical Club

• Other Flora
• 2BnTheWild - A great southeastern wildflower site.
• Alexandria Flora and Geology
• Art imitates Life - photographs of plants side by side with paintings of the same subject by some great artists and some very good artists.
• Blandy Experimental Farm and The Orland E. White Arboretum (near Winchester, VA)
• Charlie Davis' Mid-Atlantic Plant ID Page
• Flora of the Washington-Baltimore Area
• Forests of the Central Appalachians
• Guide to the Trees and Shrubs of Virginia
• Internet Directory for Botany
• The Native Plants of Ohio
• North American Rock Garden Society - Potomac Valley Chapter
• Pennsylvania Flora Project
• Steve Lonker's Native Plants of the Mid-Atlantic Region
• TreeGuide
• U.S. Botanic Garden
• U.S. National Arboretum
• University of Maryland, Department of Plant Biology - James Reveal's page
• Virgin Forests of West Virginia
• Wildflowers
• Wildflower Walks, Courses and Video - Marion Lobstein, et. al.
• Worthley Botany Class - meets in the general Baltimore area

• Local Plant Sources
• Grounds for Nature
• WInston Gardens

• Natural Heritage Programs
• Maryland Natural Heritage Program
• Virginia Natural Heritage Program
• West Virginia Natural Heritage Program

• Conservancies, Societies, Etc.
• Assateague Naturalist
• Audubon Naturalist Society
• Blue Heron Environmental Network
• Canaan Valley Institute
• Catoctin Land Trust
• Coastal Marsh Project
• Horticultural Society of Maryland
• Land Trust Alliance
• Loudoun Wildlife Conservancy
• Maryland Alliance for Greenway Improvement and Conservation - MAGIC
• Maryland Coverts Project - Woodlands Stewards
• Mid-Atlantic Environmental Sites - via Sea Grant Webserver
• National Audubon Society
• National Conservation Training Center near Shepherdstown
• Natural History Society of Maryland
• The Nature Conservancy - in West Virginia and in Maryland
• NORTHERN SHENANDOAH VALLEY AUDUBON SOCIETY (NSVAS)
• Potomac Appalachian Trail Club
• Sierra Club - Maryland and Metro Area Outings
• Sierra Club - Maryland Chapter
• West Virginia Environmental Council
• West Virginia Highlands Conservancy
• Western Pennsylvania Conservancy

• Places to Go for Wildlife, Plants and Hiking
• Appalachian Trail
• Big Blue Trail (now known as the Tuscarora Trail)
• Blandy Experimntal Farm - The State Arboretum of Virginia
• Blue Ridge Center for Environmental Stewardship
• C and O Canal
• Dyke Marsh Wildlife Preserve - near Alexandria
• Friends Wilderness Center
• Huntley Meadows - Fairfax County
• Maryland State Parks and Forests
• Snavely Trail - near Burnside Bridge
• West Virginia Birdwatching Areas - DNR
• West Virginia State Parks
• Yankauer Preserve
• Mailing Lists (Listservs, discussion groups)
  • Audubon birding discussion for WV
  • Catoctin Chapter - MNPS
  • Eastern Panhandle WV Naturalists
  • West Virginia Natural History
  • Maryland Osprey
  • Potowmack Chapter of the Virginia Native Plant Society
  • VA-MD-DE-Bugs Discussion about observation of Butterflies, Moths, Dragonflies, and other bugs in the Virginia-Maryland-Delaware region
  • Washington Butterflies

• Interviews about Bird Books - mostly on NPR shows
• New book: In the Company of Crows and Ravens
  Hear the author, John Marzluff, interviewed on the Diane Rehm Show (11:00 segment) (October 25, 2005)
• The Birds of Boreal Radio Expeditions: Canadian Forest is Home to Billions of Migratory Birds
• Why Birds Sing
  Hear the author interviewed on the Diane Rehm Show. (May 11, 2005)
• A Live Chat with Phillip Hoose author of The Race to Save the Lord God Bird
• Hear Donald Kroodsma, author "The Singing Life of Birds," interviewed on the Kojo Nnamdi Show - April 21, 2005 (1:oo segment)
• Peter Matthiessen: "The Birds of Heaven" is interviewed on the Diane Rehm Show, February 19, 2002 - 11:00 Segment
• David Sibley: "The Sibley Guide to Birds" is interviewed on the DR Show, May 30, 2001
• Maria Mudd Ruth: "Rare bird: pursuing the mystery of the Marbled Murrelet" on the Diane Rehm Show and in a local blog.

Links checked: February 12, 2008