Useful Links

The following links are meant to serve the Southern Appalachian CESU as well as the National CESU Network.

Links can be added by contacting the Web Steward.

 The Southern Appalachian CESU

• Save Our Hemlocks
• NBII (National Biological Information Infrastructure)
• NPS Expertise Database
• SE Natural Resource Leaders Group (SNRLG)

 The POWER Quad

The POWER Quad are the four southeastern CESUs. The power of expertise and capability is unsurpassed in this quad of CESUs. Click on the CESU name to go to its homepage.

• Gulf Coast CESU
• Piedmont – South Atlantic Coast CESU
• South Florida / Caribbean CESU
• Southern Appalachian CESU (you’re here already!)

 The National CESU Network

• The National CESU Website Home
• Listing and links to all the 17 CESUs in the National Network

 Federal Partners

• Bureau of Land Management
• BLM National Homepage
• Doing Business with the BLM
• Cultural and Fossil Resources
• Fish, Wildlife & Botany Group
• Lands and Mineral Use Records



• Department of Defense
• DoD National Homepage
• Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
• Defense Environmental Network (DENIX)



• National Park Service
• NPS National Homepage
• Inventory and Monitoring Network
• Southeast Coast I&M Network
• Appalachian Highlands I&M Network
• Southeast Archeological Center (SEAC)
• NPS Expertise Database
• NPS Rules for Doing Research in Parks
• NPS Research Permits
• 36 CFR – Management of NPS resources
• NPS Sabbatical in the Park Program
• NPS National Register Travel Itinerary



• USDA Natural Resource Conservation Service
• NRCS National Homepage
• National Technology Support Centers
• NRCS State Offices
• Plants Database
• Technical Resources, Tools & Data



• USDA Forest Service
• USDA FS National Homepage
• Southern Regional Office
• Southern Research Station
• Northeast Research Station
• One Stop On-line Search for Publications
• Princeton WV Forestry Science Lab
• Parsons WV Timber & Watershed Lab
• Fernow Experimental Forest
• National Heritage Program



• US Fish & Wildlife Service
• FWS National Homepage
• FWS Historic Preservation
• FWS National Wetlands Inventory
• Southeast Regional Office
• National Wildlife Refuges in SE by State
• Field Offices by State
• SE Ecological Services Homepage
• SE Region Bird Conservation Initiative
• FWS Permits



• US Geological Survey
• USGS National Homepage
• USGS Biological Resources Homepage
• USGS Cooperative Research Units
• USGS Appalachian Region Science
• Leetown Science Center
• Southern Appalachian Field Branch
• USGS Water Resources Homepage
• USGS Geology Homepage
• NBII Homepage

 Non – Federal Partners

With SA-CESU Representative Departments Listed.

• The University of Tennessee (the host of the SA-CESU)
  
  Dept. Forestry, Wildlife & Fisheries
  
  
• Appalachian State University
  
  Dept. Biology
  
  
• Florida A&M University
  
  Environmental Science Institute
  
  
• Lincoln Memorial University
  
  Dept. Mathematics & Natural Sciences
  
  
• Middle Tennessee State University
  
  Office of Sponsored Programs
  
  
• Tennessee Technological University
  
  Dept. Biology
  
  
• University of Kentucky
  
  Dept. Forestry
  
  
• Western Carolina University
  
  Dept. Biology
  
  
• Western Kentucky University
  
  Ogden College of Science & Engineering
  
  
• Great Smoky Mountains Conservation Association
  
  
• Joint Institute for Energy and the Environment
  
  
• Oak Ridge National Laboratory
  
  
• Southern Appalachian Man and the Biosphere