Here are some links, split roughly into categories. These are often of topical interest, like the Klamath articles and the Hopi resource page. Many of the links go to magazines, so are good links to research resources, examples of what kinds of writing are being published, sources for writing guidelines and places to submit work.

• BLM National Wild Horse and Burro Program -  
• Federal and State Invasive Species Programs -  
• U.S. Geological Survey -  
• National Parks Service -  
• National Forest Service -  
• Fish and Wildlife Service -  
• Environmental Protection Agency -  
• Bureau of Land Management -  

Ecology/Biology

• USGS Western Region -  
• U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service: Endangered Species - Species and habitat information, plus laws and conservation initiatives. 
• USDA Plants National Database - Indexed information with pictures. 
• Natureserve.org - Information about endangered species and threatened eco-systems. 

Regional Env. Organizations/Watchdog Groups

• The Murie Center - The Murie Center inspires people to act mindfully on behalf of wild nature. We explore the value of nature and its connection to the human spirit. 
• The Upper Green River Valley Coalition - A group of citizens, sportsmen, businesses and conservation organizations dedicated to responsible, sustainable management of the wildlife, waters and air quality of Wyoming's Upper Green River Valley. 
• Rocky Mountain Institute - An entrepreneurial nonprofit organization that fosters the efficient and restorative use of natural, human and other capital to make the world more secure, just, prosperous, and life sustaining. 
• Managing Wholes - Firsthand reporting on creating a future that works. 
• Sustainable Northwest - Promoting environmentally sound economic development. 
• Western Watersheds Project - John Marvel's organization.(2002, 2004) Nevada
• Greater Yellowstone Coalition -  Wyoming
• Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance - Preservation and management of the Colorado Plateau. Utah
• Wallowa Resources - (2004) Oregon
• Hells Canyon Preservation Council - (2004) Oregon
• Valles Caldera National Preserve - An experiment in Land Management (Government website). New Mexico
• Valles Caldera Coalition - Advocating for progressive and sustainable management of the Valles Caldera National Preserve(2002). New Mexico
• Malpai Borderlands Group - To restore and maintain the natural processes that create and protect a healthy, unfragmented landscape to support a diverse, flourishing community of human, plant and animal life in our borderlands region. New Mexico
• Citizen Alert - A grassroots environmental group based in the State of Nevada, providing education, advocacy, and empowerment to citizens on matters of environmental policy and environmental justice since 1975. Nevada
• Center for the Rocky Mountain West - A regional studies and public policy center at The University of Montana in Missoula. The Center gathers leading scholars, public policy experts, and students to study the past and help shape the future of this unique region. Daniel Kemmis' organization (2002, 2004) Montana
• Clark Fork Coalition - Dedicated to protecting and restoring the Clark Fork River basin, which stretches from Butte, Montana to Sandpoint, Idaho.(2002-04) Montana
• Blackfoot Challenge - Cooperation. Trust. Consensus. Three words guide the Blackfoot Challenge. Here, private landowners take the lead and public agencies follow in a shared goal-to keep large landscapes intact and rural lifestyles vital. (2004) Montana
• Owens Valley Committee -  California
• Mono Lake Committee -  California
• Friends of the Inyo -  California
• Gila Resources Information Project - Promoting healthy communities by protecting our environment in Southwestern New Mexico. Arizona
• Trust for Public Land (TPL) -  
• Sonoran Institute -  
• Sky Island Alliance - Dedicated to the preservation and restoration of native biological diversity in the sky islands of the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico.  
• Red Lodge Clearing House - Information on collaborative efforts around the West, along with links to published findings. 
• Quivira Coalition - Dedicated to sharing common-sense solutions to rangeland conflicts. 
• Nature Conservancy -  
• National Audubon Society -  
• Defenders of Wildlife -  
• Bush Greenwatch - Monitoring the Bush administration's environmental record. 
• American Lands Alliance - Working to protect wildlife and wild places. 

Environmental Backlash

• US out of the United Nations - From the John Birch Society, advocating withdrawal from the UN. 
• Right Wing Political Action and Information - Links to right-wing/libertarian groups everywhere. 
• Ranch Gazette - Constitution Party organization attempting to close US borders. 
•  Environmental Research Foundation - Providing understandable scientific information about human health and the environment. 
• Environmental Lies - Hypocrisy, Arrogance, Greed, Hate and an Escalating Lack of Credibility in Todays Environmental Movement. 
• Blue Ribbon Coalition - Pro snowmobiling organization: 'Preserving our Natural resources FOR the Public, Instead of FROM The Public.' 

Other Useful Resources

• Stardate - Guide to the Night Sky. 
• Best History Websites - Links to historical information from around the world. 
• Refdesk - Dictionaries, weather, weights and measures ... if it's not here, it doesn't exist. 
• EnviroLink Network - A non-profit organization which has been providing access to thousands of online environmental resources since 1991. 

News

• Builder's Enviro News - News about sustainable building technologies, developments in government policy and legislation. 
• The Navajo Times - "Newspaper of the Navajo people." 
• Canyon Country Zephyr - Moab paper - All the News that Causes Fits. Moab, Utah

Agricultural/Farming

• Food Alliance - A non-profit organization that promotes sustainable agriculture by recognizing and rewarding farmers who produce food in environmentally friendly and socially responsible ways, and educating consumers and others in the food system about the benefits of sustainable agriculture. 

Forests/Forestry

• Sustainable Forestry Initiative - Industry based certification and management organization 
• Forest Stewardship Council - International independant organization that certifies ecologically and socially sustainable forestland 
• Society of American Foresters - The national scientific and educational organization representing the forestry profession in the United States. Founded in 1900 by Gifford Pinchot, it is the largest professional society for foresters in the world. 
• Chuck Pezeshki's Clearwater Country Hompage - Professor at WSU in mechanical engineering with a strong interest in environmental protection and author of the book, "Wild to the Last: Environmental Conflict in the Clearwater Country" Idaho
• Goebel/Jackson Treefarm - An article from Managing Wholes. (2002-04) Wallowa County, Oregon

Hispanic Groups/Issues

• Tierra Wools - (2002, 2004) Los Ojos, New Mexico
• Ganados del Valle - Los Ojos, NM. (2002, 2004) Los Ojos, New Mexico

Labor Groups and Issues

• Donnas Ranch - Oldest Legal Brothel in Nevada 
• Culinary Union 226 - (2002, 2004) Las Vegas, Nevada

Mining, Oil, Energy Groups/Issues

• Cortez Gold Mine - (2002, 2004) Nevada
• Place Dome Mining -  
• Earthworks - Formerly the Mineral Policy Center, Earthworks is an organization "protecting communities and the environment from the impacts of mining." 
• Project Underground - Supporting the human rights of communities resisting mining and oil exploitation. 
• Berkeley Pit - (2002, 2004) Butte, Montana
• National Mining Association -  

Owens Valley

• LA Department of Water and Power -  Owens Valley, California
• Conservation California Native Plant Society - Bristlecone Chapter. Owens Valley, California
• Inyo County Water Department -  Owens Valley, California
• Mono Basin Clearinghouse - Building a digital library for better resource management Owens Valley, California

Public Lands/Parks

• Chaco Culture National Historic Park -  New Mexico
• Bandelier National Monument -  New Mexico
• Canyonlands National Park -  Utah
• Dinosaur National Monumen -  Colorado
• Hells Canyon NRA -  Wallowa County, Oregon

Ranching

• Nevada Rangeland Resources Commssion -  
• Oregon Country Beef - A cooperative linking ranchers and consumers for the benefit of both. Perhaps the "only natural beef program in the U.S. where individual family ranchers are directly responsible to the meat manager and the end customer for both eating quality and claims on growing practices. Oregon
• Nevada Cattlemen's Association - (2002, 2004) Nevada
• National Cattlemen's Association -  

Recreation

• Ski Area Environmental Scorecard - Sponsored by the Ski Area Citizens Coalition. 
• Intrawest Corporation - The leading developer and operator of mountain resorts across North America. ... Intrawest. Great Playgrounds of the Western World. 

Water, Rivers, Fishing

• Great Basin Water Network - This umbrella organization was created to protect the water resources of the Great Basin for current and future inhabitants (human, animal, and plant). 
• Southern Nevada Water Authority -  
• Nevada Groundwater Development Project - This Web site provides information about the Southern Nevada Water Authority's proposed Clark, Lincoln and White Pine Counties Groundwater Development Project (GWD Project). 
• Klamath Basin Crisis - KBC NEWS, voice of the irrigators and their community.(2002) Klamath County, Oregon
• Trout Unlimited - Trout Unlimited’s mission is to conserve, protect and restore North America’s trout and salmon fisheries and their watersheds. 

Western Art

• Western Folklife Center - The Western Folklife Center works to expand our understanding of ourselves and our neighbors by celebrating the everyday traditions of people who live and work in the American West. 
• Terry Tempest Williams - talks about these sculptures in her essay, "A Shark in the Mind of One Contemplating Wilderness". 
• Hirst -  
• Bear Deluxe magazine - Published by Orlo, a nonprofit organization using the creative arts to explore environmental themes. 
• Ansel Adams -  

Writing Examples

• ABC & John Stossel Rev Up Anti-Environmental Rhetoric - by Pat Fish 
• The Left and Environmental-First Nations Relationships - Green Web Bulletin #46 by David Orton 
• A New Kind Of “Green-washing?” - by John Howard, Greenpeacer now a Greenwasher. 
• What is Environmental Communication? - by Mark Meisner. 
• Higher Superstition - The Academic Left and Its Quarrels with Science by Paul R. Gross and Norman Levitt 
• America: No Longer A Christian Nation - An analysis of nature and environmentalism from a Right-Wing biblical perspective. 
• The Environmentalists' War Against Grazing on U.S. Public Lands - by Zane Walley 
• Extremists and the Anti-Environmental Lobby - Activities Since Oklahoma City by Tarso Ramos 
• Rejecting the Rhetoric: Environmental Justice Conference Confronts Criticisms - by Kevin S. Minoli 
• Our Klamath Basin Water Crisis: Fighting for Our Right to Irrigate Our Farms and Caretake Our Natural Resources - By Gail Hildreth Whitsett 
• Civic Environmentalism: Tackling Tough Land-Use Problems with Innovative Governance -  
• The Wise Use Movement - Right-Wing Anti-Environmentalism by William Kevin Burke 
• The Wise Use Movement: Right-Wing Anti-Environmentalism - by William Kevin Burke 

Native American Resources

• Wallowa Band Nez Perce - (2002, 2004) Wallowa County, Oregon
• Western Shoshone Defense Project - (2002, 2004) Nevada
• Shoshone Sisters Fight for Land - Living on Earth presents Shoshone Sisters Fight for Land: The Western Shoshone’s traditional lands stretch over two thirds of the state of Nevada. But since the late 1800s, the tribe has lost possession of millions of acres of that land to the government through the gradual encroachment of settlers. Two Shoshone sisters, Carrie and Mary Dann, have been fighting over ownership of their grazing land for decades, and for the sovereignty of the Western Shoshone people. Clay Scott reports from northern Nevada. Download the MP3 or listen to the story with Real Player.(2002, 2004) Nevada
• Nez Perce.com - A source of archival photos, history, language and cultural information as well as scholarship opportunities for those of Nez Perce descent. 
• Navajo Nation - Official Web Site of The Navajo Nation. 
• Native Americans and the Environment - To educate the public on environmental problems in Native American communities; to explore the values and historical experiences that Native Americans bring to bear on environmental issues; to promote conservation measures that respect Native American land and resource rights. 
• Hopi Project - Articles about Hopi land disputes, grazing rights. 

• U.S. Customs and Border Protection - The Federal Government agency. 
• American Border Patrol - The American Border Patrol needs your help to continue to protect our great Nation from the threat of illegal immigration. (NOTE: Not a government agency.) 

• Topozone - An excellent resource for topographical maps for anywhere in the US.