RNS Student Resources

This page contains links to resources that will support your learning in the Restoration of Natural Systems Program. If you have suggestions for additional resources to add to this page, please contact Peggy Faulds, Program Coordinator, Restoration of Natural Systems, at pfaulds@uvcs.uvic.ca or (250) 721-8463.

Web Sites

Interactive Key to the Grasses of the Columbia Basin
http://www.livinglandscapes.bc.ca/grasses/

Language Proficiency Index
http://www.ares.ubc.ca/LPI/index.html

Society for Ecological Restoration
http://www.ser.org/

E-Flora BC: An Electronic Atlas of the Plants of British Columbia
http://www.eflora.bc.ca/

Flora of North America
http://hua.huh.harvard.edu/FNA/

Plants Database | USDA Plants
http://plants.usda.gov/

Pacific Streamkeepers Federation
http://www.pskf.ca/

Plant Propagation Pacific Northwest
http://depts.washington.edu/propplnt/plantindex.htm

Documents

How to Write Restoration Reports
http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/courses/rns/resources/reports.htm

Quantitative Analysis of Natural Populations
PDF Version - 2.2 Mb (Acrobat Reader required)
http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/courses/rns/resources/documents/analysis.pdf
HTML Version
http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/courses/rns/resources/analysis.htm

Transfer Guide
http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/courses/rns/resources/documents/trans_guide.pdf

Draft Long-term Course Schedule
http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/courses/rns/resources/documents/schedule.pdf

Financial Assistance
http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/courses/rns/resources/documents/fin_assist.pdf

ER 390 — Selected Project
http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/courses/rns/resources/documents/er390.pdf

Learning Modules

Non-Traditional Forest Products — Introduction
http://learn.royalroads.ca/learningobjects/Ntfp/ntfpmain.html

Non-Traditional Forest Products — Historical and Current Use
http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/courses/ntfp/history/index.htm

Non-Traditional Forest Products — Commercialization of Traditional Medicinal Plants
http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/courses/ntfp/commerce/index.htm

Non-Traditional Forest Products — Managing for Multiple Values
http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/courses/ntfp/manage/

Non-Traditional Forest Products — Disturbance-Driven Ecosystems and NTFPs
http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/courses/ntfp/driven/

Non-Traditional Forest Products — Disturbance-Maintained Ecosystems and NTFPs
http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/courses/ntfp/maintain/

Non-Traditional Forest Products — Gap-Driven Ecosystems and NTFPs
http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/courses/ntfp/gap/