Resources - Following Deer Creek

ANIMALS:

Arthropods of Nevada County – Joyce Gross Photography (spider, beetle & fly photos)
Audubon Guide to California Birds
Bird Watching Walks – Sierra Foothills Audubon Society
BugGuide.net
California Amphibians – Joyce Gross Photography (toads)
California Birds – Joyce Gross Photography
California Department of Fish and Wildlife, Game Warden Jerry Karnow (Nevada County) – VIDEO
California non-oak Galls (Wasp) – Joyce Gross Photography
California Reptiles – Joyce Gross Photography (snakes, turtles & lizards)
California Species Database – California Department of Fish and Wildlife
California Wildlife YouTube videos
Cornell Lab of Ornithology – Educators Guide to Next Boxes
Cornell Lab of Ornithology – Nest Watch – national nest monitoring program
Essig Museum of Entomology – UC Berkeley (bug identification)
Forestry Images
Gall Wasps – BugGuide.net
Internet Bird Collection
Introduced Species – KCET – 5 Species You Might Have Mistakenly Thought Were California Natives
INVASIVE SPECIES House Sparrows & Starlings – American Acclimatization Society & Eugene Schieffelin
Keep Me Wild Campaign – California Department of Fish and Wildlife
The Nature Conservancy – Migrations in Motion (Climate Change Survival) – Interactive Map
Migratory Connectivity Project | Smithsonian Institution & USGS | Live Animal Migration Tracks
Nevada County Resource Conservation District – Local Mammal Wildlife
Nevada County Wildlife Services
Oxford Academic – Journal of Insect Science
Roadkill Report Maps – UC Davis College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences
Sierra Foothills Audubon Society – Birds of Nevada County
UC Davis Bohart Museum of Entomology (bugs)
Yale Environment 360 – Native Species or Invasive? The Distinction Blurs as the World Warms
Wikipedia – List of Mammals of California

CONSERVATION:

Saving Species Together, a joint project between the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW), the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Fisheries, illustrates how resource agencies, private landowners, non-profits and citizens have come together to help some of California’s vulnerable species.

Saving Species Together Video Series (multilingual video options)

United States Environmental Protection Agency – Clean Water Act (1972)

Conservation & Wilderness History Film (Land Ethic)

Green Fire – PBS version from Aldo Leopold Foundation on Vimeo.

CONTEMPORARY CREEK:

Bear Yuba Land Trust
Complexity of the Yuba Watershed Neighborhood. – Hank Meals, Yuba Trails and Tales Blog
**Deer Creek Restoration Plan (2011) by Friends of Deer Creek/Sierra Streams Institute and the
Tsi-Akim Maidu – includes indigenous and mining history, geology, river ecology, hydrology and vegetation management, public education, and regulatory reform.
Deer Creek YouTube videos
California Department of Fish and Wildlife – California Invasive Species Action Week