REFERENCE MATERIALS GUIDE...

Your local Soil and Water Conservation District has an Envirothon Reference Materials Guide (3" Ring Binder) in their office available for loan. For your convenience the following resources are available online*.    

Don't forget to borrow an additional training resource - The Envirothon Resource Trunk

* Additional items are contained in the binders -  those not available below are out of print or unavailable online, please contact your district office for loan.

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GENERAL INFORMATION

Envirothon Rules

Envirothon Learning Objectives

Watershed Connections resource listing of agencies and groups

The Open-Space Lands Preservation Trust Fund, Virginia Outdoors Foundation

Virginia's Natural Resources Education Guide, VRUEC

 

AQUATICS

Virginia Explorer: Virginia's Water Resources

Nonpoint Pointers No. 2-11, EPA

Virginia's Water Resources - A Tool For Teachers

Water Quality Testing

Dichotomous Key to Stream Macroinvertebrates

Stream Insects and Crustaceans, Save Our Streams, Izaak Walton League

Stream Quality Survey, Save Our Streams, Izaak Walton League

ABC's of Hydrogeology, Threats to Groundwater

Nonpoint Source Pollution Sources

Nonpoint Source Pollution handouts

Oxygen, Nitrogen and Phosphorus Cycles

NPS, Nonpoint Source Pollution and You Brochure, DCR

 

FORESTRY

National 4-H Forestry Invitation Handbook, Cooperative Extension

Forestry Best Management Practices for Water Quality in Virginia Technical Guide, VDOF

How A Tree Grows, VDOF

The Link Between Forest Buffers and Water Quality, VDOF

Forestry Handouts

Our Forests Are Changing, Society of American Forestry

Virginia's Forest Facts

Managing Pines for Profit and Wildlife, VDOF

Forest Trees of Virginia, VDOF

Riparian Forest Handbook 1, VDOF

Bugs, Blights, Blazes, Southern Forest Institute

Virginia's Forests: Our Common Wealth, VDOF


SOILS

From the Surface Down...NRCS

Land Judging and Soil Evaluation, Virginia Tech

Hydric Soils of the United States, NRCS

The Virginia Erosion and Sediment Control Law, DCR

Best Management Practices for Virginia Agriculture, DCR

Soil Texturing

 

WILDLIFE

Backyard Conservation

Management of Virginia Ponds for Fishing

Exotic Species

Educators and Virginia's Wildlife Laws

Hunting and Trapping in Virginia

Virginia Migratory Waterfowl Regulations

Dove, Woodcock, Snipe, etc. Virginia Regulations

Virginia Freshwater Fishing Regulations

Virginia's Bobwhite Quail

Animal Tracks

Wild In the Woods: Spotlight on Skulls, Nov. 1998

The Basic Needs of Wildlife: An Overview and Wildlife Habitat Evaluation Handbook, VDGIF & VCE

An Evaluation of Deer Management Options

Native Plants for Wildlife Habitat, USFWS, Chesapeake Bay Office

Wildlife Habitat Information Sheets Part 1, VDGIF

Wildlife Habitat Information Sheets Part 2, VDGIF

Wildlife Conservation in Virginia, Agriculture Education Service of Virginia State Dept. of Education

 

PRESENTATION

Canon Envirothon Judges' Scoring Sheet for Team Presentations

A Clarification of the Canon Envirothon Judging Sheet

Planning Your Presentation

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