Open Educational Resources: Environmental Studies, Science, & Sustainability

Provides links to map resources for the public (e.g. general guides, national forests, etc.)

The Active Fire Mapping Program is an operational, satellite-based fire detection and monitoring program managed by the USDA Forest Service Geospatial Technology and Applications Center (RSAC) located in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Data sets consist of long-term research study data, spatial data, and analytical tools including software and models.

A guide to the aerial photos covering the national forests in Oregon at the University of Oregon Map Library.

The primary focus of NTSG is to understand how terrestrial vegetation responds to climate variability and influences energy, water and carbon cycles. NTSG conducts research over a broad range of spatial scales from individual landscape units to basin, continental and global domains. NTSG has strong emphasis in the application of ecological theory and environmental analysis using computational process modeling, satellite remote sensing and GIS.

The GIS data of the BLM in OR/WA consist of 1) statewide or regional data captured at a scale of 1:100,000 (or smaller) and 2) Framework, or base, data captured at the 1:24,000 scale (or larger) that have been built and maintained by OR/WA BLM 3) Data cover mostly BLM-managed lands with some private lands included.

The Multi-Resolution Land Characterization (MRLC) consortium is a group of federal agencies who coordinate and generate consistent and relevant land cover information at the national scale for a wide variety of environmental, land management, and modeling applications. The creation of this consortium has resulted in the mapping of the lower 48 United States, Hawaii, Alaska and Puerto Rico into a comprehensive land cover product termed, the National Land Cover Database (NLCD), from decadal Landsat satellite imagery and other supplementary datasets.

"Forestry Images is a grant-funded project, we must generate documentation to justify continued funding. If we can document sufficient usage by a variety of user groups, we believe that the funding agency will enable us to evolve Forestry Images as an educational and service outreach at no cost to you." They ask, however, that you register when using the site in order to documentits use more effectively.

A web-based project to provide enhanced access to the 16 volume Natural Fuels Photo Series data in electronic form using a database to enable searching, downloading, and eventually side-by-side comparisons and customized site generation.

Newly digitized photograph collection from Emanuel Fritz and Woodbridge Metcalf (among the first faculty of the UC Berkeley School of Forestry. the collection covers forestry, conservation, and the lumber industry in California and the United States primarily from 1910-1960.

In 2007 the OSU Libraries acquired the Gerald W. Williams Collection, consisting of the collected historic photographs, personal papers, and research library of Gerald "Jerry" Williams, former national historian for the U.S. Forest Service. Williams, a native Oregonian, spent much of his Forest Service career in the Pacific Northwest, prior to being appointed national historian in 1998.