ARCHIVES TABLE OF CONTENTS; Important notice!!!!! As Hazel McCallion, the Mayor of Mississauga has publicly expressed her concerns about my efforts to inform the public in regards to what is really going on in Mississauga, it is likely bad things will be coming my way. If this web-site has to be moved and you would like to know its new location, to keep updated on the shame of Mississauga, then use this e-mail to be added to a list of those who will be inform. donbar@arvotek.net Your are Greatly Appreciated INDEX: STUDIES IN REGARDS TO SALAMANDERS & AMPHIBIANS; SALAMANDERS & NEWTS IN GENERAL; AMPHIBIANS OR SALAMANDERS AS PETS; INDUSTRIES - ENVIRONMENTAL WEB-SITES; - Hunters web-sites; CITY OF MISSISSAUGA; - Raterpayers' Groups; Groups' & Clubs'; CANADIAN - REGIONAL - GOVERNMENT; CANADIAN - PROVINCIAL - GOVERNMENT; CANADIAN - FEDERAL - GOVERNMENT; SCHOOLS; - Students web-sites; POLITICAL PARTIES & POLITICS; - Political Web-sites; POLITICIANS; COMMUNITY ACTIVISM: - Canadian based: U.S.A. based: USA BASED OR USA GOVERNMENT - AMPHIBIANS & SALAMANDERS; Your are Greatly Appreciated
RELATED & USEFUL LINK SITES; Canada Site - http://www.canada.gc.ca/ Government of Canada - CanExplore - - http://www.canexplore.gc.ca/ Links to Conservation and Environmental Resources - http://www.island.net/~cclt/links.htm Natural Heritage - links - http://www.heritagefdn.on.ca/Links/links-natural.htm Ontario Environment Network - http://www.web.net/~oen/ Environment Canada - Green Lane - http://www.ec.gc.ca/other_sites_e.html Ontario Natural Heritage Information Center - http://www.mnr.gov.on.ca/MNR/nhic/others.html Web Networks - http://community2.web.net/connections/sites/index.cfm The basking spot, - http://www.baskingspot.com/cap-amphibians.html Credit Valley Web Site - http://www.creditvalley.com/ Excite Travel: Destinations: Canada: Ontario: Peel County - EDUCATIONAL SUPPORT; ACER - The Association for Canadian Educational Resources - http://acer-acre.org WRI - Links - http://www.wri.org/wri/enved/biodiv/tgb-home.html Digital Field Trip to the Wetlands - http://www.digitalfrog.com/products/wetlands.html ONTARIO INSTITUTIONS; Royal Ontario Museum - http://www2.rom.on.ca/ontario/ Ontario Science Centre - http://www.osc.on.ca/ Waterfront Trust - http://www.waterfronttrail.org/ Toronto Zoo - http://www.torontozoo.com/ Adopt-A-Pond's - http://www.torontozoo.com/adoptapond/aoo/aoo.html Toronto and Area Frogging Reports - http://www.zoo.utoronto.ca/FUN/frogs.html Your are Greatly Appreciated
Canadian Museum of Nature - http://www.nature.ca/english/researc.htm Royal Botanical Gardens - http://www.rbg.ca/ Niagara Escarpment Commission - http://www.cciw.ca/eman-temp/sites/niagara/intro.html The Canadian Council of Churches - http://www.web.net/~ccchurch/ CONSERVATION BODIES; Credit Valley Conservation - CVC - http://www.mississauganews.com/conservation/index.html Toronto and Region Conservation Authority - TRCA - http://www.trca.on.ca/ Hamilton Region Conservation Authority - HRCA - http://www.hamrca.on.ca/ CONSERVATION; The Conservation Council of Ontario - http://www.greenontario.com/cco.htm Agripedia - Links - http://frost.ca.uky.edu/agripedia/links/linkdive.htm Community Contact Database - Conservation - http://crd.bc.ca/contact/indexes/CON.htm Nature Conservancy of Canada - http://crd.bc.ca/contact/indexes/pages/342.htm Center for Conservation Biology Network - http://conbio.rice.edu/network/ The Conservation Lands of Ontario - http://www.conservationlands.com/ Green Ontario - http://www.greenontario.com/ Earthwatch Institute - http://www.earthwatch.org/?id=1468015 ELDIS - http://nt1.ids.ac.uk/eldis/eldis.htm Biodiversity and Conservation - http://nt1.ids.ac.uk/eldis/biodiv/biodiv.htm Canadian Botanical Conservation Network - http://www.rbg.ca/cbcn/ WRI - World Resources Institute - http://www.econet.apc.org/wri/index.html World Conservation Monitoring Centre - http://www.wcmc.org.uk/index.html Your are Greatly Appreciated
Communitree or The Gordon House Group - http://www.aracnet.net/~etcetera/ Canadian Wildlife Federation - http://www.cwf-fcf.org/ The Canadian Nature Federation - http://www.cnf.ca/ Trees Ontario - http://www.oforest.on.ca/role.html World Wildlife Fund - http://www.worldwildlife.org/index.html Earthweek - http://www.earthweek.com/ Community Wildlife Habitats Homepage - The Bruce Trail Discussion Group - http://www.brucetrail.org/_disc3/0000003d.htm The Nature Conservancy of Canada - http://www.natureconservancy.ca/ Rouge River Valley - http://web.onramp.ca/rivernen/ Friends of the Red Hill Valley - http://www.hwcn.org/link/forhv/ Earthroots - http://www.earthroots.org The Wildlands League - http://web.idirect.com/~wildland Credit Valley Horticultural Society - http://www.ICanGarden.com/clubs/cvhs.htm Canadian Amphibian and Reptile Conservation Network - http://www.cciw.ca/ecowatch/dapcan/ EnviroWatch, Inc. - http://www.envirowatch.org/ National Wildlife Federation - http://www.nwf.org/habitats/community/index.html Earth Day Events & Activities - http://www.earthday.org/egateway/plants.htm The Citizens’ Network on Waste Management - http://www.web.net/cnwm/index.htmlThe Royal Canadian Geographical Society - http://www.rcgs.org/ Canadian Geographic - http://www.canadiangeographic.com/ National Geographic Society - http://www.nationalgeographic.com/
ENVIRONMENTAL LEGAL; Sierra Legal Defence Fund - http://www.sierralegal.org/ Canadian Institute for Environmental Law and Policy - http://www.web.net/~cielap/ Biodiversity Law and Policy in Canada: Review and Recommendations - Canada Info - http://www.clo.com/~canadainfo/environment.html
Ontario Heritage Foundation - http://www.heritagefdn.on.ca/ The Peel Heritage Complex - http://www.region.peel.on.ca/heritage/hcomplex.htm The Mississauga Heritage Foundation Inc. - http://www.city.mississauga.on.ca/heritage/
NATURALIST'S CLUBS; Federation of Ontario Naturalists - http://www.ontarionature.org/ South Peel Naturalists Club - SPN - The Hamilton Naturalists' Club - http://www.freenet.hamilton.on.ca/link/hamnature/index.html Kitchener Waterloo Field Naturalists - http://www.sentex.net/~tntcomm/kwfn/ Peterborough Field Naturalists - http://www.sentex.net/~tntcomm/kwfn/ Ottawa Field Naturalists Club - OFNC - http://www.achilles.net/ofnc/birding.htm Your are Greatly Appreciated BIRDING; Ontario Field Ornithologists - http://www.interlog.com/~ofo/ Birding in Ontario - http://www.interlog.com/~gallantg/ontario.html Birding in Canada - http://www.interlog.com/~gallantg/canada/ Bird Links to the World - http://www.ntic.qc.ca/~nellus/links.html Toronto Birding Reports - http://www.zoo.utoronto.ca/FUN/birds.html Hamilton Birding Hotline Report - http://www.hwcn.org/link/hamnature/index.html Detroit Birding Hotline (State wide report) - http://www.ais.org/~alb/statewide.html Prince Edward County Birding Site - http://www.pec.on.ca/other/birds.html Kingston Birding Home Page - http://www1.kingston.net/~english/index.html Friends of Presqu'ile Provincial Park - http://www.friendsofpresquile.on.ca/ Friends of the Rouge Watershed - http://web.onramp.ca/rivernen/ The Toronto Peregrine Falcon Project - http://www.interlog.com/~peregrin/ WETLANDS; Wetlands links - http://www.cciw.ca/green-lane/wildlife/glwcap/links.html Wetlands ESCAN - http://www1.iastate.edu/~jlmc/escan/WetEcology.html Why Landowners Restore Wetlands - http://www.erols.com/wetlandg/why-rest.htm Wetland and Water Resources on the Internet - Hyper links to other Wetlands Restoration and Conservation sites - Wetlands Action Network - http://www.wetlandact.org/lcwet.html Wetlands Action Network - http://www.wetlandact.org/index.html Wetlands International - links - http://www.wetlands.ca/wia/links.htm Wetland Sciences, Inc. - http://www.wetlandsciences.com/ Wetlands Regulation Center - http://www.wetlands.com/index.html Wetlands - http://www.enviroliteracy.org/wetlands.html Wetlands In Danger - http://digitalsportsman.com/wetlands/dang.htm National Audubon Society - http://www.audubon.org/campaign/wetland/index.html What are Wetlands? - http://www.epa.gov/rgytgrnj/kids/wets_b.htm Wetnet - The Wetlands network - http://www.wetlands.ca/ North American Wetlands Conservation Council - http://www.fws.gov/r9nawwo/nawcc.html VERNAL PONDS; Physical Description of a Vernal Pool - Welcome to the exciting world of Vernal Pools!!! - http://soli.inav.net/~arachnid/maire/vernalpools.html Vernal pools on Cape Cod -http://www.whrc.org/ccatlas/enviro/habitats/vernal.htm HERPETOLOGY; Herpetology - http://www.csuchico.edu/~pmaslin/fbiol/Hrptlg.html Herp Links - http://www.nyhs.org/pages/main/links.html San Diego Natural History Museum - http://www.sdnhm.org/research/herpetology/herpfaq.html Autoresponder Letter (Links) Melissa Kaplan - http://www.sonic.net/~melissk/autoletr.html
AMPHIBIANS; Frog watching - http://www.cciw.ca/frogwatching/ North American Amphibian Monitoring Program - http://www.im.nbs.gov/amphibs.html Amphibian - http://haiti.stanford.edu/~chandu/vrml/jibackup/tmp.html Museum of Natural History's - Guide to Campus Wildlife - University of Georgia Campus - http://museum.nhm.uga.edu/WLG/WLGintro.html NewtsWeek - Current News about Newts - http://www.ultranet.com/~vail/newt/news/index.html Amphibians - http://www3.pei.sympatico.ca/garyschneider/project/amphib.html FONZ library of animal facts - Amphibians - http://www.fonz.org/famph.htm Woods ESCAN - http://www1.iastate.edu/~jlmc/escan/WdHerps.html Welcome to the Leaping Pad: Other Happenin' Herps -
GLOBAL AMPHIBIAN DECLINE; New Study Reveals Health Dangers of Ozone Depletion: Link Found between UV-B Radiation and Amphibian Deformities - http://www.ozone.org/mr120897.html UV Radiation Can be Deadly - Frog Web - Focus on Amphibian Declines and Deformities - http://www.frogweb.gov/ North American Reporting Center for Amphibian Malformations - Scientific conference on amphibian decline taking place on Internet - Your are Greatly Appreciated STUDIES IN REGARDS TO SALAMANDERS & AMPHIBIANS; Temporal Partitioning of Pond Resources - http://www.lsc.nbs.gov/ael/POSTERS/CANAAN/F3RESPAR.HTM The Ensatina complex appears to be a classical example of Darwinian evolution by gradualism; an accumulation of micromutations that is now leading to the formation of new species. - Distribution of Redback Salamanders in a Fragmented Landscape - Robert G. Jaeger - My research examines the behavioral ecology of salamanders - http://www.usl.edu/Departments/Biology/jaeger.html SALAMANDERS & NEWTS IN GENERAL; Blue-spotted salamander - http://www.cciw.ca/ecowatch/dapcan/tour/glossary/bss/bss2.htm Great Lakes Salamanders - yellow spotted - Amphibian reference - http://newts.org/~newto/ The Pacific Giant Salamander - Dicamptodon ensatus - http://www.naturepark.com/pgsala.htm Visually guided behavior in salamanders - http://www.klab.caltech.edu/~pam/behav.html The Elusive Blue-Spotted Salamander - Spotted Salamander Mating Ritual - http://www.hawkmountain.org/SalamanderMating.html The ACE Archives: Critters - http://www.capaccess.org/nnp/arclen/arc3crit.htm Feeding in Hydromantes platycephalus - Salamanders of the genus Hydromantes in the family Plethodontidae have the longest tongues of any salamanders - http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~deban/hydromovielarge.html Salamander & Axolotl - http://portia.advanced.org/2899/virtual/saloloxa.html Biology 450 field trips - http://www.biology.lsa.umich.edu/~www/bio450/field.htm Salamanders and Newts - http://www.ceismc.gatech.edu/zooary/zoo/amphibians/sal_newt.html Project Salamander - http://www.uwsp.edu/stuorg/wildlife/sal/links.html The Perilous Journey of the Santa Cruz Long-toed Salamander - Penny’s herp (mostly) web-page - http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/Vines/5518/ Slender Salamander (Batrachoseps) Care Sheet by Marc S. Staniszewski - Amphibians and Reptiles of Joker's Hill - King Township, Regional Municipality of York - C. Sean Blaney, April 1998 - http://www.erin.utoronto.ca/~w3pkota/herps.html Salamanders by Dan Asay - MYTH & FOLK LORE SALAMANDERS; Two of Wands - Salamanders Travel over Fallen Autumn Leaves - AMPHIBIANS OR SALAMANDERS AS PETS; - NOT - FROM - ME, - YOU - DO - JEFFERSON SALAMANDERS; Jefferson Salamander (Ambystoma jeffersonianum) Cortland - http://www.cortland.edu/www/herp/keys/salamand/ajefflat.htm Jefferson Salamander - http://www.cciw.ca/ecowatch/dapcan/tour/glossary/js/js2.htm Your are Greatly Appreciated
INSECTS; Biological Survey of Canada Terrestrial Arthropods - BUTTERFLIES; The Butterfly Web-site - http://mgfx.com/butterfly/ PLANTS: Endangered Plants of Ontario Web Site - Endangered Plants of Ontario - Links to Other Sites - The North American Native Plant Society and Wildflower Magazine - The Wildlife Group - USA - http://www.wildlifegroup.com/ MUSHROOMS & FUNGUS; The Mycological Society of Toronto - http://www.myctor.org/
ECOSYSTEMS; The Virtual Library of Ecology and Biodiversity - http://conbio.rice.edu/vl/
BIODIVERSITY; International organizations; An extended list of international organizations is being compiled by the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity - Canadian Biodiversity Resources links -http://www.rbg.ca/cbcn/l_biodiv.html Biodiversity Links By Area - http://falcon.cc.ukans.edu/~ceas/blink.htm Canadian Biodiversity Strategy - http://www.cciw.ca/eman-temp/reports/publications/rt_biostrat/ Canadian Centre for Biodiversity - http://www.nature.ca/english/biodive.htm Rutgers University Biodiversity Center - http://aesop.rutgers.edu/~biodiversity/INDEX.HTM The Biodiversity and Ecosystems Network - Biodiversity Resource Kit - Global biodiversity - http://www.nature.ca/english/gbzine.htm WRI - Biodiversity and Ecosystems Index - http://www.wri.org/wri/biodiv/bri-ndex.html WRI - Global Biodiversity Strategy, Links - http://www.econet.apc.org/wri/biodiv/gbs-net.html WRI - Links - http://www.econet.apc.org/wri/wri/biodiv/index.html Biodiversity Links - http://www.jsdnp.org.jm/biodivers.htm CAROLINIAN FOREST; Carolinian Canada - http://www.carolinian.org/ The Ontario Heritage Foundation -http://www.heritagefdn.on.ca/Heritage/natural-carolinian.htm
FOREST ECOLOGY; Links to some useful journals in ecology and soil biology - Forest Ecology and Management - http://www.elsevier.nl/homepage/san/foreco/fp.sht Forest Ecosystems - Department of Renewable Resources - Links to Bibliographies, journals, and databases - Runar’s home page - http://pw2.netcom.com/~runar/ecolog.htm Other Forest Related Web Pages - http://www.triax.com/bmnfa/related.htm Natural Resources Canada - Canadian Forest Service - The Illinois Forest Watch is a part of the EcoWatch Program - Headwaters - to protect and restore forest ecosystems - Association for Biodiversity Information - http://www.abi.org/ Biodiversity and Biological Collections - http://www.keil.ukans.edu/ Biodiversity Conservation Information - http://www.biodiversity.org/ The importance of sun flecks for forest understory plants - WSL - Links - http://www.wsl.ch/land/LEtopics.html General Ecology - http://ww.writers.spb.ru/eco/nayk/c.htm
INDUSTRIES - ENVIRONMENTAL - WEB-SITES; Ontario Forestry Association - http://www.oforest.on.ca/ Ontario Woodlot Association - http://www.ont-woodlot-assoc.org/ National Forestry Database Program - Canadian Council of Forest Ministers http://www.nrcan.gc.ca/cfs/proj/iepb/nfdp/cp95/text_e/sitind0e.htm Canadian Institute of Forestry/Institut forestier du Canada (CIF/IFC) - The Ontario Woodlot Association - http://www.ont-woodlot-assoc.org/ Canadian Pulp and Paper Assoication - CPPA - http://www.open.doors.cppa.ca/english/ Hunters web-sites; Ducks Unlimited Canada' - http://www.ducks.ca/ Ontario Federation of Anglers and the Ontario Hunters' Association - ECOLOGICAL RESTORATION; Ecological Restoration Committee - http://www.ecobooks.com/ecorest.htm Society for Ecological Restoration (SER) - http://www.ser.org/ Society for Ecological Restoration Ontario Chapter - http://www.trentu.ca/academic/ser/ Environmental Policies of the Society for Ecological Restoration - http://ser.org/envpolicies.html Ecological Restoration Related Internet Resources -
CITY OF MISSISSAUGA; City of Mississauga - http://www.mississauga.ca/portal/home In Dec., 2003 the City redid it's web-site so it is even harder to bookmark a page, to get directly back to almost any web-site without going through page after page. Business groups'; Port Credit Business Association - http://www.portcredit.com/ Your are Greatly Appreciated
OTHER MUNICIPALITIES; City of Brampton - http://www.city.brampton.on.ca/frame_1.htm City of Toronto - http://www.city.toronto.on.ca/
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