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  • @eagletree is a regional freenet dedicated to British Columbia's most pressing environmental issues, including the theft of natural heritage, logging in drinking watersheds and urgent transportation challenges.

  • The Abiqua Basin, homepage of Friends of Abiqua, a Silverton, Oregon-based group created to address watershed concerns and management issues in the Abiqua Basin.

  • Alaska Boreal Forest Council promotes responsible stewardship of Alaska's boreal forest resources and assists the community in developing and implementing a vision of sustainability for all forest-based resources.

  • @igcThe Alaska Rainforest Campaign is a coalition of eight national and Alaskan environmental conservation organizations united to confront the challenge of protecting Alaska's rainforest.

  • Ama's Environmental Alerts has the latest on attempts to repeal the 'logging without laws' rider.

  • American Forests is a citizen's conservation group working for 'health communities and forest ecosystems' since 1875.

  • @igc"Cascadia Rising! presents the efforts of Cascadia Forest Defenders at Warner Creek, the Umpqua National Forest, and elsewhere in the Northwest.

  • Church of the Living Tree promotes tree-free paper products.

  • Debating the Earth to Death is Oregonian Gene Greer's page of facts and links on "the blizzard of anti-environmental activity going on right now" in the United States.

  • @igc"The Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide (E-LAW) is an international network of public interest attorneys, scientists and other advocates sharing expertise and legal and scientific information across borders in defense of the environment.

  • @igc"The Environmental Protection Information Center in Garberville, CA has been working to protect biodiversity and ancient forests on the North Coast of California for over a decade. EPIC's current focus is protecting Headwaters Forest, the largest unprotected ancient redwood forest in the world.

  • Forestry World Wide Web of the Finnish Forest Research Institute, and the Finnish Forestry Gopher

  • Forests for the Future includes aforests-related news library, legislation info, curricula for teachers andschools, alternative paper facts, a redwood lumber boycott petition, and much more.

  • The Gaia Forest Archives are a repository of materials on rainforest and worldwide forest biodiversity. Nearly 1,500 forest conservation articles found here provide significant background materials on worldwide efforts to conserve the world's forests, biodiversity and indigenous cultures. The materials are unabashedly activist in content and scope, drawing heavily from postings to EcoNet/APC Networks forest related conferences over the past five years; and hoping to provide opportunities for North/South partnerships to save forests and biodiversity.

  • Georgia ForestWatch is a non-profit environmental group in N. Georgia created to protect and restore Georgia's Chattahoochee and Oconee National Forests.

  • Hunger Strike for Ancient Forests: Tim Ream's 75-day protest against the salvage logging of Warner Creek in Oregon ended on Saturday, December 16, 1995. Read Tim's daily journals at The Virtual Times International's Hunger Strike in Eugene, OR site.

  • @igcIGC's Habitats & Species Page

  • @igcIn the Amazon provides up-to-date and historical information on the Southwestern Brazilian Amazon, and on the Amazon region in general. The content varies, and can be environmental, political, economic and historical, with lots of full-color digital photography.

  • Mediate a timber dispute with this role play from Institute for Study of Alternative Dispute Resolution

  • @igcNatural Resources Defense Council is working to protect public lands. Check out the latest updates on the legal and legislative fronts.

  • @igcNew Forests Project is a grassroots direct action program to promote reforestation and reduce deforestation in "developing countries". NFP has worked with more than 3,500 communities in over 100 countries since 1982.

  • Northwest Ancient Forests has up-to-date info on what's hurting and who's helping the ancient forests of the Pacific Northwest.

  • @igcRainforest Action Network's highly interactive action-oriented WWW page is one of the best on the net. RAN brings the tools of activism to your fingertips. Made with 100%-recycled electrons. Point your browser to the RAN Web page and help save the rainforest!

  • @igcThe Rainforest Alliance works for tropical forest conservation. Projects include SmartWood, ECO-O.K., Amazon Rivers, Conservation Media Center, Natural Resources and Rights, Allies in the Rainforest, Catalyst Grants. Resources for students, activists, and more.

  • @igcReThinking Paper-The Paperless Times is a network of environmental activists, scientists, and paper-industry experts working to achieve ecological sustainability in the U.S. pulp and paper market.

  • Get the lowdown on salvage logging, the legislation endangering old growth forests, and other aspects of the U.S. Forest Service's timber policies and programs at the Salvage Primer Page, a project of the Taxpayer's Assets Project (TAP), founded by Ralph Nader in 1988 to monitor the management and sale of government property.

  • @igc Sierra Club and Sierra Club Action Alerts -- "One Earth, One Chance"

  • @igcThe Sustainable Development Institute (SDI) seeks to heighten the environmental quality of economic development efforts through improvements in policy and practice. Its geographical concentration is on tropical forest regions and the Atlantic coast of Canada, the U.S., and the eastern Caribbean.

  • @igc Taiga Rescue Network

  • @igcThe Trust for Public Land (TPL) is a national, nonprofit land conservation organization that conserves land for people to enjoy as parks, gardens, natural areas and open space.

  • Umpqua Watersheds seeks to get Douglas County, Oregon residents involved in the harvesting of the Ancient Forests, and provides information on logging happening now in the Umpqua National Forest.

  • Yahoo's Forest Index is a good place to find more links to forest science, education, industry, and conservation.

  • The Wildlands League, an Ontario chapter of the Canadian Parks & Wilderness Society, has been working since 1968 to protect Ontario's wild places.

  • @igcWorld Resources Institute is an independent center for policy research and technical assistance on global environmental and development issues. WRI is dedicated to helping governments and private organizations of all types cope with environmental, resource, and development challenges of global significance.

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