The Big Empty
An article and classroom activities about the Great Basin from Science and Children, a magazine published by the National Science Teachers Association for elementary and middle school science teachers.

Great Basin Bird Observatory
A nonprofit organization dedicated to the conservation of birds and their habitats through partnerships, public education and applied research.

Great Basin Indian Archive
This site at Great Basin College in Elko, Nev., has links to tribes and archives of tribal materials online, as well as information about efforts to assemble an archive of primary source materials at the college, plus guidelines and suggestions for archivists and researchers.

Great Basin National Park
The homepage for the crown jewel of the Great Basin. From the top of Wheeler Peak you can look out across the ocean of basin and range and feel as if you are flying above it all.

High Country News
This site regularly contains news from the Great Basin, including a special issue: The Great Basin: America's Wasteland Seeks a New Identity, written by Jon Christensen.

Learn the Great Basin
This is another educational site for students and teachers sharing ideas and plans for investigating the Great Basin and Nevada.

Maps
The W.M. Keck Earth Sciences and Mining Research Information Center at the University of Nevada, Reno, has a mind-boggling collection of maps of Nevada, ranging from historical topographic maps to modern interactive maps. Another fabulous collection of digitized historical maps can be found at www.davidrumsey.com.

Modoc Forum
Through the Surprise Valley Writers' Conference, and other projects, the Modoc Forum strives to perpetuate an understanding and appreciation of the natural and agricultural landscape of Modoc County, the Great Basin, and the rural west through literature, the arts, community education and academic programs.

Native Nevada Classroom
This site contains lesson plans on Indian culture, environment and history. Designed for K-6 teachers in Nevada, the lessons supplement most subject areas and focus on the Great Basin tribes: the Washoe, Paiute and Shoshone.

Nevada Rock Art Foundation
A site dedicated to documentating and preserving petroglyphs and pictographs by recording them in the field, so that the images and data are available or education, research, publication, analysis and protection for years to come, and the sites are protected from vandalism.

NevadaTravel.Net
David Toll, the compleat Nevada travel authority, now has a Web site packed with facts, travel reports and links to information all over the map of the Silver State.

Wilderness
The Southern Utah Wilderness Association is campaigning to protect wilderness areas in Utah's West Desert. This link will take you to SUWA's homepage which includes a map that you can click on to see the wilderness areas in the Great Basin portion of Utah. Friends of Nevada Wilderness will connect you to wilderness areas in Nevada.

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