Highlighted Resources
Aldo Leopold is considered by many to have been the most influential conservation thinker of the 20th Century. Leopold's legacy spans the disciplines of forestry, wildlife management, conservation biology, sustainable agriculture, restoration ecology, private land management, environmental history, literature, education, esthetics, and ethics. He is most widely known as the author of A Sand County Almanac, one of the most beloved and respected books about the environment ever published. The Leopold Collection houses the raw materials that document not only Leopold's rise to prominence but the history of conservation and the emergence of the field of ecology from the early 1900s until his death in 1948.
Teaching Resources
- EE Activities - Urban and Built EnvironmentsLinks on this page are for activities and materials dealing with environmental concerns in urban areas and for urban audiences in built environments.
- iNaturalist.orgWhere you can record what you see in nature, meet other nature lovers, and learn about the natural world.
- Mapping the EnvironmentThe Missouri Botanical Garden's Mapping the Environment program is based at the Litzsinger Road Ecology Center, an environmental education center in suburban St. Louis.
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- CONSERVATION BIOLOGY FOR ALLIn honor of International Year for Biodiversity, Oxford University Press makes conservation biology textbook by some of the world's most prominent ecologists and conservation biologists available as free download
Background Information
- Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher EducationAASHE is an association of colleges and universities that are working to create a sustainable future. Our mission is to empower higher education to lead the sustainability transformation. We do this by providing resources, professional development, and a network of support to enable institutions of higher education to model and advance sustainability in everything they do, from governance and operations to education and research.
- ConserveOnline - Connecting Conservation Practitioners WorldwideCreated and maintained by The Nature Conservancy in partnership with other conservation organizations, ConserveOnline is a no cost public repository of tools, techniques and experiences available to conservation practitioners.
- Ecological Society of AmericaThe Ecological Society of America (ESA) is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization of scientists founded in 1915 to:
* promote ecological science by improving communication among ecologists;
* raise the public's level of awareness of the importance of ecological science;
* increase the resources available for the conduct of ecological science; and
* ensure the appropriate use of ecological science in environmental decision making - Ecology Global NetworkTo inform, educate and inspire the global community to respect, restore and protect our natural and human world
- Ecology WWW PageAs a volunteer service to students, teachers, researchers, and others interested in the science of ecology, this list was compiled by Anthony R. Brach (Missouri Botanical Garden & Harvard University Herbaria, U.S.A.).