Environment and Nature
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Favorite Parks:
- Black Diamond Mines Park in Contra Costa County, California
- Mount Diablo State Park, California
- Calaveras Big Trees State Park, California
- Chiayi Park, Chiayi, Taiwan
- Camoes Grotto and Garden in Macau
- Golden Gate Park, San Francisco
- Eagle Creek Park, Indianapolis
- Forest Park, St. Louis
- Meadowbrook Park, Urbana, Illinois
- Oak Knoll Park, Clayton, Missouri
- Meramec State Park, Missouri
- Johnston Shut-Ins State Park, Missouri
- Elephant Rocks State Park, Missouri
- Turkey Run State Park, Indiana
- Canon Beach, Oregon
- Jade Mountain National Park, Taiwan
- Toroko Gorge National Park, Taiwan
- Glacier National Park, Montana
- Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming
- Joshua Tree National Park, California
- Kings Canyon National Park, California
- Sequoia National Park, California
- Mt. Rainier National Park, Washington
- Olympic National Park, Washington
Websites related to nature and the environment.
- Palaeos: the history of life on Earth.
- The Encyclopedia of Life.
- Real Climate
- Climate Progress
- Missouri Outdoors
- U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
- U.S. Department of the Interior
- U.S. National Parks Service
- U.S. Bureau of Land Management
- Places to go camping near Springfield, Illinois
- International Society for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture.
- Environmental Protection from a Baha'i Perspective (Arthur Dahl)
- The Baha'i Faith and the Environment (Richard Landau)
- Baha'i involvement in activities to promote world solidarity and human welfare.
- Wild at Heart Good source of information on Taiwan and China.
- Taiwan Discovery (Taiwan)
- Hiking Taiwan Blog.
- Pashan: Hiking the mountains, valleys, rivers and jungles of Taiwan
- The Go Hiking club in Taipei
Environmental Groups and Websites.
- The National Wildlife Federation.
- The Wildlife Conservation Society.
- The National Audubon Society.
- The Springfield Audubon chapter of the Illinois Audubon Society.
- The Sierra Club.
- The Illinois Sierra Club.
- The World Wildlife Fund.
- The Wilderness Society.
- The Cousteau Society.
- The Nature Conservancy.
- Defenders of Wildlife.
- Earth First!
- Greenpeace USA.
- Ecumenical Water Network.
- Living Water International.
Some of my favorite Gardens and Arboreteums:
- Missouri Botanical Gardens (St. Louis)
- Japanese Tea Garden in Golden Gate Park (San Francisco)
- Logan Gardens (near Stranraer, Scotland)
- Botaniska, Gothenburg Botanical Garden (Göteborgs Botaniska Trädgård) Goteborg, Sweden)
- University of California Riverside Botanical Garden
- University of California Berkeley Botanical Garden
- Kew Gardens, London
- Allerton Park in Illinois (University of Illinois)
- Garfield Park Conservatory in Chicago
- Tucker Wildlife Sanctuary, in Southern California near where I lived when I was young.
Thirty-One Zoological Gardens I've enjoyed since the year 2000:
- Saint Louis Zoo
- Santa Ana Zoo
- Pittsburgh Zoo
- Zoo America in Hershey, PA
- San Diego Zoo
- Tulsa Zoo
- Mesker Park Zoo in Evansville, IL
- Henson Robinson Zoo in Springfield, IL
- Scovill Zoo in Decatur, IL
- Peoria Zoo in Peoria, IL
- Bronx Zoo (in New York, NY)
- Mucha Zoo in Taipei, Taiwan
- San Francisco Zoo
- Miller Park Zoo in Bloomington, IL
- Cincinnati Zoo
- Brookfield Zoo near Chicago
- Zoo Boise in Bosie, ID
- Dakota Zoo in Bismarck, ND
- Catoctin Wildlife Preserve and Zoo in Thurmont, MD
- The National Zoo in Washington, DC
- The Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago, IL
- The Ueno Zoo in Tokyo, Japan
- The Shanghai Zoo in Shanghai, China
- The Hong Kong Zoological and Botanical Gardens in Hong Kong.
- The Oregon Zoo in Portland, OR
- The Manila Zoological and Botanical Garden in Manila, Philippines
- The Artis Royal Zoo in Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Zoo Barcelona
- Tierpark Hellabrunn in Munich, Bavaria
- Sibiu Zoo in Sibiu, Romania
- The Beijing Zoo in China
- My "lists of sources" webpage.
- My home page.
- Hadley-Ives Personal Links.
- My list of blogs, newspapers, and magazines that I read.