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2009 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.
BACK TO ENVIROTHON WEBPAGE
GENERAL INFORMATION
2009 Envirothon Rules
Canon Key Points-Learning Objectives
The Open-Space Lands Preservation Trust Fund, Virginia
Outdoors Foundation
Virginia's
Natural Resources Education Guide, VRUEC
Watershed Connections resource listing of agencies and
groups
SPECIAL TOPIC- BIODIVERSITY
IN A CHANGING WORLD
2009 Special Topic Resources
Cypress Bridge
Swamp Joins Virginia Natural Area Preserve System
Big
Woods Maps
Center for Conservation Biology
Study Examines Air Pollution’s Effects on Ecosystems; Finds
Widespread, Serious Impacts
Sussex County Landowner, Longleaf Pine Enthusiast, Donates
Conservation Easement to Nature Conservancy
State, Local Funds to Help Protect 500 Acres of Old-Growth
Cypress Swamp along 5 Miles of the Blackwater River
The Nature Conservancy in Virginia Completes 20,830-Acre
Conservation Deal with International Paper
Piney Grove and the Big Woods (The Nature Conservancy)
Southern Forests Conservation Project
(The Nature Conservancy)
Southern Forests Conservation Project Fact Sheet
(The Nature Conservancy)
Southern Rivers Watershed
The
Great Dismal Swamp
Project Learning Tree Module on Biodiversity
ORAL PRESENTATION
2009 Oral Presentation Problem
2009 Problem
Resources
Canon
Envirothon Judges' Scoring Sheet for Team Presentations
A Clarification
of the Canon Envirothon Judging Sheet
Planning Your Presentation
AQUATICS
Canon Envirothon Guidelines for 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
Canon Envirothon Guidelines for Forestry
VA Envirothon Forestry Manual
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
Canon Envirothon Guidelines for 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
Canon Envirothon Guidelines for 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
Virginias
Bowhite 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
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