Links to Related Websites

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Interactive Soils Maps - https://websoilsurvey.nrcs.usda.gov/app/
The USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service - https://www.nrcs.usda.gov/

South Carolina State Parks (I can only make this work in IE) - https://www.southcarolinaparks.com/
SC Department of Natural Resources - https://www.dnr.sc.gov/
SCDNR Heritage Preserves - https://www.dnr.sc.gov/mlands/propertysearch?p_flag=1


The USDA Plants Database - https://plants.usda.gov/index.html
The Atlas of the SC Flora - dot maps like in Radford, but more up to date -  https://cricket.biol.sc.edu/herb/


Systematics websites - these have pictures, family descriptions, species descriptions, conservation information, etc
    https://www.botany.hawaii.edu/faculty/carr/pfamilies.html
    https://www.hort.uconn.edu/plants/
    https://www.csdl.tamu.edu/FLORA/gallery.htm   (this site is especially good for images)
    https://www.floridata.com/main_fr.cfm?state=Welcome&viewsrc=welcome.htm  (another good site for images, and cultivation info - mostly ornamentals)
    https://florawww.eeb.uconn.edu/
    https://www.natureserve.org/
    https://www.2bnthewild.com/ (this is a great site for images of wildflowers in the Southeast, plus lots of other information and a simple key)

The International Code of Botanical Nomenclature - https://www.bgbm.fu-berlin.de/iapt/nomenclature/code/SaintLouis/0000St.Luistitle.htm

Conservation Organizations
    The Nature Conservancy - https://nature.org/
    Ducks Unlimited - https://www.ducks.org/
    The Sierra Club - https://www.sierraclub.org/
    The Natural Resources Defense Council - https://www.nrdc.org/
    The National Wildlife Federation - https://www.nwf.org/
    The Virginia Conservation Network - https://www.vcnva.org/

The South Carolina Native Plant Society website -   https://cufp.clemson.edu/scnativeplants/

A naturalist consulting company's page with tons of great information on natural history, jobs, etc. - https://www.ranger146.com/

Carnivorous Plants
    https://www.sarracenia.com/

An interesting site on roadside vegetation management -  https://filebox.vt.edu/users/jodaniel/

Pest Management from NCSU - https://www.ces.ncsu.edu/depts/ent/notes/O&T/index.html

The US Forest Service website -  https://www.fs.fed.us/

The Ecological Society of America website -  https://www.esa.org/

The Soil Science Society of America website -  https://www.soils.org/

A geology site maintained by a geology textbook publisher -  https://college.hmco.com/geology/resources/geologylink/index.html

Bob Peet's site - Dr. Peet is one of the better known plant ecologists in the southeast -  https://www.bio.unc.edu/faculty/peet/