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Books	Book Collections	Major Photo Projects	Art/maps/trees	IRL	Research
Crafting books	Catherine dee Auvil Ethnobotany Library	The People’s Presidents Project (Ch)	Maps lakes Chota Cali bike genealogy	labels/ seed packets	Long Hunters
More books	Long Hunter Genealogy Library	Wild West	POSTCARDS	Space app	Shawnee-Powhatan
Daniel Boone	Upper Pack homeschool library	Sandpoint Housekeeping/ booklists	prints	dress forms	Standing Deer Bailey 2026
shelfies		Chewelah Steelhead	family trees	signs	Conscientious Objector Status (WP)
Books by me		Gallerys	Addie memorial and prayer cards	colonial painted mugs? how?	Wildfire Resources Wildfire Comparison by Catherine dee Auvil January 2025 #xyz123
Have to Need to Want to			Thank you cards	fabric Spoonflower	Powhatan Confederacy List
History of smear campaigns					Thomas Bailey Christian

The Draper Manuscripts (N1) (Go) are a massive 491-volume collection of historical papers, letters, interview notes, and documents collected by Lyman Copeland Draper. They focus primarily on the frontier history of the "Trans-Allegheny West" from the 1740s to the 1840s, covering the French and Indian War through the War of 1812. [1, 2, 3]

Agnes Branch Pearlman - Christian Family Chronicles (O)

Wild horses Buffalo Bear
BLM Wild Horse & Burro Program — the essential official site. This is the federal program responsible for most wild horses on public lands. It links to herd areas, gathers, adoptions, laws, statistics, and management documents. (BLM) InterTribal Buffalo Council (ITBC) — my #1 choice. This is the site I would absolutely include. ITBC represents 86 member Tribes in 22 states and works to restore and maintain buffalo herds on Tribal lands. It is especially valuable for the cultural, historical, ecological, and Tribal-restoration side of the subject. Bearwise - Excellent information on black bears and grizzlies, preventing human-bear conflicts, securing garbage and food, bear spray, encounters, camping, dogs, electric fencing, and keeping bears from becoming habituated to people. It is a program of the Association of Fish & Wildlife Agencies, so the material is developed with wildlife professionals. (B)
BLM Gathers & Fertility Control Operations — probably the one I would bookmark if I wanted to know what is happening right now. It lists current and planned roundups by state and links to the individual operations, where BLM posts daily gather reports. (BLM fertility) Yellowstone National Park — Bison Management. Probably the best official site for following the most famous truly wild American bison population. Yellowstone explains herd numbers, migration, captures, transfers to Tribes, management controversies, and the current management plan. Yellowstone says its goal is a sustainable population of roughly 3,500–6,000 wild migratory bison. (YNP-BM) Vital Ground Foundation _ One of the best grizzly-protection organizations. This one is especially impressive because it actually protects and connects grizzly habitat, particularly in the Northern Rockies. It is an accredited land trust and works on wildlife corridors, private-land conservation, electric fencing, bear-proof garbage and conflict prevention. Since 1990 it says it has helped protect or enhance more than 1 million acres. (VGF)
USGS Wild Horse & Burro Research — best science source. This is where I would go for population-estimation methods, genetics, fertility control, ecological effects, and peer-reviewed research rather than advocacy arguments. (USGS) Buffalo Field Campaign — the one to bookmark for on-the-ground Yellowstone buffalo news. Like Wild Horse Education for wild horses, this is an advocacy organization rather than a government agency. Its volunteers conduct field patrols and document hazing, captures, hunting, slaughter, management decisions, and migration outside Yellowstone. It publishes current reports, photos and videos.(BFC) Polar Bears International Probably the first site I would bookmark specifically for polar bears. It is devoted solely to wild polar bears and their Arctic habitat, with research, conservation, human-polar-bear coexistence, education, live cameras and a polar bear tracker. (PBI)
Wild Horse Education — excellent for actually following roundups. They send observers into the field and publish photographs, video and day-by-day reports. Their interpretation is advocacy-oriented, so I would compare their reports with the corresponding BLM page—but they sometimes document things you would never learn from simply reading the agency summary. They are actively reporting 2026 gathers. (WHE) U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service — Plains Bison. One of the best science/government reference pages. It covers conservation status, genetics, conservation herds and restoration efforts. FWS notes that only a relatively small portion of North America's buffalo are actually maintained as conservation herds rather than commercial livestock.
(USF&WS-PB) IUCN Bear Specialist Group This is a terrific site if you're interested in all the world's bears rather than just North America. The IUCN group works on the seven terrestrial bear species: American black, Asiatic black, brown/grizzly, Andean/spectacled, sloth, sun bear and giant panda. Polar bears have their own IUCN specialist group. It tracks populations, threats, habitat and conservation priorities worldwide. (IUCNBSG)

American Wild Horse Conservation — probably the strongest major national advocacy site. It covers roundups, legislation, lawsuits, fertility control and efforts to keep horses on the range. It also publishes current field reports from individual herds. (AWHC) Smithsonian — American Bison. Excellent for straightforward natural history: size, behavior, biology, conservation, history, population decline and recovery. It also discusses the distinction between commercial herds and conservation herds.(S-AB) International Association for Bear Research & Management (IBA) his is where many professional bear biologists, researchers and wildlife managers connect. It publishes Ursus, the peer-reviewed journal devoted specifically to bear research and management, and supports bear research around the world. Excellent if you want to go beyond popular articles and see what scientists are studying. (IBA)
Return to Freedom — especially good for history, conservation and understanding mustang bloodlines. They operate a large sanctuary and have substantial educational material in addition to advocacy work. (RtF) The Nature Conservancy — American Bison. Particularly good for understanding why buffalo matter to prairie ecosystems. TNC manages thousands of bison on preserves and is involved in transferring animals to Native Nations. Its site also gives you a useful list of preserves where buffalo can be seen. (TNC-AB) Bear Trust International Bear Trust's mission is conservation of all eight species of bears worldwide. Its work includes habitat protection, research, conservation policy and education. It has supported projects ranging from American black bear habitat in the Mississippi region to sun bear habitat in Indonesia. (BTI)
BLM Idaho Herd Management Areas. Idaho has six federally managed wild-horse HMAs—Four Mile, Sands Basin, Hardtrigger, Black Mountain, Saylor Creek and Challis—and this page is the gateway to each herd. (BLM Idaho) American Prairie — Bison Restoration. This one is especially interesting because it deals with the idea of restoring buffalo not merely as animals in a herd, but as an ecologically functioning species on a very large Montana landscape. Their long-term vision involves a herd large enough to behave naturally and substantially influence the prairie ecosystem. (AP-BR) North American Bear Center If you really want to understand black bear behavior, this is one of the most enjoyable sites on the Internet. It has an enormous amount of material about bear behavior, ecology, hibernation, cubs and relationships with humans. Its stated mission includes advancing the long-term survival of bears by replacing misconceptions with scientific information. (NABC)
There is also a separate Idaho gathers page, which is unusually useful right now because Idaho had 2026 operations at Challis and Saylor Creek. (Idaho) World Wildlife Fund — Bringing Bison Home. Very good for the intersection of buffalo conservation and Native Nations. WWF's Northern Great Plains work emphasizes Tribal partnerships and returning buffalo to Native lands rather than treating restoration as simply a wildlife-management exercise. (WWF-BBH) Grizzly Bear Foundation Dedicated to the welfare of grizzly bears across North America. It supports research, education, advocacy and coexistence, including research into rehabilitating and returning orphaned grizzly cubs to the wild. (GBF)

Bureau of Indian Affairs — Department of the Interior Bison Initiative. This is worth bookmarking because it gives you the federal/Tribal government side of buffalo restoration and links outward to the InterTribal Buffalo Council, National Park Service and specific restoration projects.
(BoIA-DotIBI) Greater Yellowstone Coalition Their grizzly program works on habitat protection, wildlife corridors, bear-resistant campgrounds, livestock-conflict reduction and connecting isolated grizzly populations. It's particularly useful for understanding the conservation issues facing grizzlies in the Lower 48. (GYC)

Tribal Buffalo Lifeways Collaboration. This is a newer effort specifically focused on expanding buffalo restoration on Tribal lands and supporting cultural, spiritual, ecological and economic revitalization. It's particularly useful if you're interested in what the next generation of Tribal buffalo restoration looks like. (TBLC) World Wildlife Fund WWF isn't exclusively about bears, but it has very good conservation sections for species such as polar bears and giant pandas, including habitat loss, climate impacts, human-wildlife coexistence, monitoring and conservation projects. (WWF)

Kalispel Tribe manages a thriving bison (q̓ʷyq̓ʷay) herd of over 140 to 180 animals on their reservation in northeast Washington. (Go) Smokey Bear an American campaign and advertising icon of the U.S. Forest Service (O) (WP)

30 best bear sites

Bear Attacks: Their Causes and Avoidance — Stephen Herrero (Ar)

My Side Projects

Garden?Forest	recycling	maps by others	Upper Pack	Connect with:	education	people
worms?	pine cone saving	Michael Reagan	siren, no fireworks sign	Mastin family, Daniel Smith family	School GIS (N1)	Mary McLean (Ch)
leaves for sale?	cork recycling	Foley Map		Crab Orchard Museum		Harman Bible (N1)
black walnut?	broken pottery dishes recycling	Rountree map		Tazewell Community College?		Stevens (N1)/ Kerrigan Cowboy
Faux bois (WP)		map collection share?		Shawnee tribes, historians		Angeline Bean Muncy (FG)
				Mews: Tavernor Ross		Keziah Cornstalk Pannell (FG) (Ev) Jacob Castle
					Rose & Valeria (blog)	Portland Sisters (N1) Find a Grave project

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this seems like the perfect solution to collecting rainwater out in my pasture where there is no irrigation. It has built in gutter system! BUT the roof is made of plastic. I guess the plastic can get in the water? I need to learn about that... In the meantime could someone design something just like this but with stainless steel roof and gutters? Thank you.
now I see this one is sold out. here is a similar greenhouse with gutters:

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Wild horses	Buffalo	Bear
BLM Wild Horse & Burro Program — the essential official site. This is the federal program responsible for most wild horses on public lands. It links to herd areas, gathers, adoptions, laws, statistics, and management documents. (BLM)	InterTribal Buffalo Council (ITBC) — my #1 choice. This is the site I would absolutely include. ITBC represents 86 member Tribes in 22 states and works to restore and maintain buffalo herds on Tribal lands. It is especially valuable for the cultural, historical, ecological, and Tribal-restoration side of the subject.	Bearwise - Excellent information on black bears and grizzlies, preventing human-bear conflicts, securing garbage and food, bear spray, encounters, camping, dogs, electric fencing, and keeping bears from becoming habituated to people. It is a program of the Association of Fish & Wildlife Agencies, so the material is developed with wildlife professionals. (B)
BLM Gathers & Fertility Control Operations — probably the one I would bookmark if I wanted to know what is happening right now. It lists current and planned roundups by state and links to the individual operations, where BLM posts daily gather reports. (BLM fertility)	Yellowstone National Park — Bison Management. Probably the best official site for following the most famous truly wild American bison population. Yellowstone explains herd numbers, migration, captures, transfers to Tribes, management controversies, and the current management plan. Yellowstone says its goal is a sustainable population of roughly 3,500–6,000 wild migratory bison. (YNP-BM)	Vital Ground Foundation _ One of the best grizzly-protection organizations. This one is especially impressive because it actually protects and connects grizzly habitat, particularly in the Northern Rockies. It is an accredited land trust and works on wildlife corridors, private-land conservation, electric fencing, bear-proof garbage and conflict prevention. Since 1990 it says it has helped protect or enhance more than 1 million acres. (VGF)
USGS Wild Horse & Burro Research — best science source. This is where I would go for population-estimation methods, genetics, fertility control, ecological effects, and peer-reviewed research rather than advocacy arguments. (USGS)	Buffalo Field Campaign — the one to bookmark for on-the-ground Yellowstone buffalo news. Like Wild Horse Education for wild horses, this is an advocacy organization rather than a government agency. Its volunteers conduct field patrols and document hazing, captures, hunting, slaughter, management decisions, and migration outside Yellowstone. It publishes current reports, photos and videos.(BFC)	Polar Bears International Probably the first site I would bookmark specifically for polar bears. It is devoted solely to wild polar bears and their Arctic habitat, with research, conservation, human-polar-bear coexistence, education, live cameras and a polar bear tracker. (PBI)
Wild Horse Education — excellent for actually following roundups. They send observers into the field and publish photographs, video and day-by-day reports. Their interpretation is advocacy-oriented, so I would compare their reports with the corresponding BLM page—but they sometimes document things you would never learn from simply reading the agency summary. They are actively reporting 2026 gathers. (WHE)	U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service — Plains Bison. One of the best science/government reference pages. It covers conservation status, genetics, conservation herds and restoration efforts. FWS notes that only a relatively small portion of North America's buffalo are actually maintained as conservation herds rather than commercial livestock. (USF&WS-PB)	IUCN Bear Specialist Group This is a terrific site if you're interested in all the world's bears rather than just North America. The IUCN group works on the seven terrestrial bear species: American black, Asiatic black, brown/grizzly, Andean/spectacled, sloth, sun bear and giant panda. Polar bears have their own IUCN specialist group. It tracks populations, threats, habitat and conservation priorities worldwide. (IUCNBSG)

American Wild Horse Conservation — probably the strongest major national advocacy site. It covers roundups, legislation, lawsuits, fertility control and efforts to keep horses on the range. It also publishes current field reports from individual herds. (AWHC)	Smithsonian — American Bison. Excellent for straightforward natural history: size, behavior, biology, conservation, history, population decline and recovery. It also discusses the distinction between commercial herds and conservation herds.(S-AB)	International Association for Bear Research & Management (IBA) his is where many professional bear biologists, researchers and wildlife managers connect. It publishes Ursus, the peer-reviewed journal devoted specifically to bear research and management, and supports bear research around the world. Excellent if you want to go beyond popular articles and see what scientists are studying. (IBA)
Return to Freedom — especially good for history, conservation and understanding mustang bloodlines. They operate a large sanctuary and have substantial educational material in addition to advocacy work. (RtF)	The Nature Conservancy — American Bison. Particularly good for understanding why buffalo matter to prairie ecosystems. TNC manages thousands of bison on preserves and is involved in transferring animals to Native Nations. Its site also gives you a useful list of preserves where buffalo can be seen. (TNC-AB)	Bear Trust International Bear Trust's mission is conservation of all eight species of bears worldwide. Its work includes habitat protection, research, conservation policy and education. It has supported projects ranging from American black bear habitat in the Mississippi region to sun bear habitat in Indonesia. (BTI)
BLM Idaho Herd Management Areas. Idaho has six federally managed wild-horse HMAs—Four Mile, Sands Basin, Hardtrigger, Black Mountain, Saylor Creek and Challis—and this page is the gateway to each herd. (BLM Idaho)	American Prairie — Bison Restoration. This one is especially interesting because it deals with the idea of restoring buffalo not merely as animals in a herd, but as an ecologically functioning species on a very large Montana landscape. Their long-term vision involves a herd large enough to behave naturally and substantially influence the prairie ecosystem. (AP-BR)	North American Bear Center If you really want to understand black bear behavior, this is one of the most enjoyable sites on the Internet. It has an enormous amount of material about bear behavior, ecology, hibernation, cubs and relationships with humans. Its stated mission includes advancing the long-term survival of bears by replacing misconceptions with scientific information. (NABC)
There is also a separate Idaho gathers page, which is unusually useful right now because Idaho had 2026 operations at Challis and Saylor Creek. (Idaho)	World Wildlife Fund — Bringing Bison Home. Very good for the intersection of buffalo conservation and Native Nations. WWF's Northern Great Plains work emphasizes Tribal partnerships and returning buffalo to Native lands rather than treating restoration as simply a wildlife-management exercise. (WWF-BBH)	Grizzly Bear Foundation Dedicated to the welfare of grizzly bears across North America. It supports research, education, advocacy and coexistence, including research into rehabilitating and returning orphaned grizzly cubs to the wild. (GBF)
	Bureau of Indian Affairs — Department of the Interior Bison Initiative. This is worth bookmarking because it gives you the federal/Tribal government side of buffalo restoration and links outward to the InterTribal Buffalo Council, National Park Service and specific restoration projects. (BoIA-DotIBI)	Greater Yellowstone Coalition Their grizzly program works on habitat protection, wildlife corridors, bear-resistant campgrounds, livestock-conflict reduction and connecting isolated grizzly populations. It's particularly useful for understanding the conservation issues facing grizzlies in the Lower 48. (GYC)

	Tribal Buffalo Lifeways Collaboration. This is a newer effort specifically focused on expanding buffalo restoration on Tribal lands and supporting cultural, spiritual, ecological and economic revitalization. It's particularly useful if you're interested in what the next generation of Tribal buffalo restoration looks like. (TBLC)	World Wildlife Fund WWF isn't exclusively about bears, but it has very good conservation sections for species such as polar bears and giant pandas, including habitat loss, climate impacts, human-wildlife coexistence, monitoring and conservation projects. (WWF)
	Kalispel Tribe manages a thriving bison (q̓ʷyq̓ʷay) herd of over 140 to 180 animals on their reservation in northeast Washington. (Go)	Smokey Bear an American campaign and advertising icon of the U.S. Forest Service (O) (WP)
		30 best bear sites
		Bear Attacks: Their Causes and Avoidance — Stephen Herrero (Ar)