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Scientific links

The Royal Society of New Zealand
The Royal Society of New Zealand website is primarily a site for ecologists. The site has links to many papers on grassland ecology via it's search function, and also includes New Zealand Journal of Botany abstracts.

Landcare Research
The official site of the crown research institute, Landcare Research. Material contained includes information about the various research projects being conducted, publications and more.

Hieracium information
This site hosted by Dr Hazel Chapman (Canterbury University) contains valuable information on Hieracium.

Agriculture Infobase
This website offers links to agricultural based websites in New Zealand

Agritour New Zealand
Agritour arranges technical study tours individually designed for your particular interests, a useful site for non-New Zealand residents.

Conservation

New Zealand Ecological Restoration Network (NZERN)
The New Zealand bush organisation, now known as the New Zealand Ecological Restoration Network (NZERN) started as a backyard restoration project and developed into much more. Visit this site to find out about local restoration projects, what to plant where, species information, conservation news,or to view a calender of events in your area.

QEII National Trust
The QEII National Trust are involved with protecting biodiversity on private land. This site offers information about the trust, their work and how they may be of assistance to landowners wishing to protect sites on their land.

Ministry for the Environment
New Zealand Ministry for the Environment has funding avaliable for community or private groups interested in sustainable management projects.

Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment
Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment's report on the management of the South Island tussock grasslands.

NZ Royal Forest & Bird Society
The official website of the non-government NZ Royal Forest & Bird Society.

Public Access New Zealand (PANZ)
This non-government organisation seeks to improve and maintain public rights to outdoor access and recreation in New Zealand. Included is information detailing the ecological effects of freehold and leasehold land in the high country, and hosting specific information about individual tenure reviews.

Collaborative management

NRM-changelinks: Improving participatory approaches in environmental management
This site provides information about encouraging more collaborative approaches, community based conservation, participatory processes, conflict management and information management. It provides an annotated guide to a range of on-line resources providing papers, handbooks, tips, theory and techniques in a number of related, skill fields. How the application of these different skills are interlinked in practice is also illustrated.

Tourism

Tourism in the McKenzie Basin
The official website of the McKenzie Basin Tourism and Development Board.

Nature discoveries
This site offers information about eco-tours from Christchurch to Arthurs Pass. Also includes pictures of native wildlife.

Flock Hill Lodge
Information on this tourist lodge and activity centre located in the Canterbury high country.

Nature and Company Ltd.
Information on the wildlife, nature and the science of conservation in New Zealand. A fantastic site for those with little knowledge of New Zealand flora and fauna. Specific to the high country is information on living in the high country and information on Mount Cook National Park.

Bendigo Station Safaris
Back country tours of Bendigo Station in Central Otago.

Ryton Station
The website of Ryton Staion in the Lake Coleridge area. Includes information on subdivisions and tourism.

Ben Ohau station
A merino farm expanding into tourism. Includes information on history, tourism and farming at Ben Ohau.

Farming

Organics New Zealand
This link goes straight to a paper discussing conversion to organic sheep farming in the New Zealand organic growers site.

Merino New Zealand
The merino industry in the South Island high country is important. Visit the New Zealand merino site for grower news and information on farm development.

Farming Pages
A selection of farming and agricultural websites and links.

NOSLAM
The North Otago Sustainable Land Management Group website. Set up by farmers interested in more sustainable land management practices.

MAF
The official Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry website. Includes information on topics relevant to the tussock grasslands such as rabbit control, forestry, etc.

Fencepost
Promotes itself as the premier New Zealand farming site, including discussion groups and up to date information on any thing farming-related.

Lifestyle block
The New Zealand site for lifestyle farmers

International sites to link to...

Conservation

Grasslands Conservation Council of British Columbia (GCC) website Provides information relating to education, conservation and stewardship of BC's grasslands. This group is a strategic alliance of organizations and individuals, including government, range management specialists, ranchers, agrologists, grasslands ecologists, First Nations, environmental groups, recreationists and grassland enthusiasts.

British protected areas
A British site detailing various protected natural areas including a grassland site on Gough Island.

US Environmentalist
An American site, this one presents information about grassland tenure review and the effects of grazing grasslands from an anti-grazing perspective.

Private lands
An Australian site designed to give non-goverment organisations and private landowners access to resources and information about protecting and managing threatened species.

Similar projects

Jatun Sacha
A South-American website hosted by a non-government organisation which focuses on community based conservation and sustainable use projects. Amoungst these projects is an area including paramo, the South American equivalent to New Zealand's high country tussock areas.

Australian savanna
This site is hosted by the Australian Tropical Savannas Co-operative Research Centre. This centre focusses on collaborative research projects and the site contains similar information to this one (stakeholder lists, research reports and publications, etc.) as well as annual reports.

Common Ground
Similar to this site, Seeking Common Ground is a US initiative between government and non-government organisations, landowners, etc in the state of Washington, USA. It seeks to protect US rangelands in both government and private ownership.

Great Plains, USA
Explore the grasslands of the great plains, USA, on this site created by US Government conservation bodies. With the aim of making economic gains compatible with ecological sustainability this site combines a range of technical information for various audiences.

Scientific sites and publications lists

North American references
A North American site containing scientific publication lists and abstracts of grassland research references.

Grazed grasslands
A university site containing general information on grazed grasslands as well as more formal scientific articles.

Prescribed Burning
This US site offers information on prescribed burning in the US and may be of international scientific interest.

Humboldt University
Another US site, offering access to an amazing array of reference material relating to grassland management.

Fire and grassland database also see related site Prescribed fire guidelines

Grassland site links

Grassland restoration database

Grassland restoration for birds (bibliography)

Regional Trends of Grassland Resources, USA

Grassland soil ecology (bibliography)

British grassland references (bibliography)

Sustainable agriculture virtual library

Drought management (bibliography)

Online papers

Wetland burning
Hosted by the University of Minnesota, this paper by Morgan Robertson, entitled "Prescribed buring as a management and restoration tool n wetlands in the upper mid-west" details the prescribed burning of wetlands

Prescribed burning
Hosted by the University of California, this paper by James Barryl and Wayne Harrison, entilted Prescribed Burning in the California State Park System details the management of mixed woodland and savanna state parks.

Grassland management database
This US site, hosted by the Northern Praire Wildlife Research Centre offers hundreds of on-line papers relating to grassland management, for example Prescribed burning guidelines in the northern Great Plains.

Grassland management
Hosted by Texas University, U.S.A, this paper by John Walker and Ken Hodgkinson, entilted Grazing management: new technologies for old problems details the principles of managing grazing, along with new technologies for management.

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