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Soils/Land Use Resources

Forestry Resources

Wildlife Resources

Oral Presentation Resources 

2012 Oral Presentation Problem (Coming Soon)
Oral Presentation Component	Rules & Guidelines	Announcement
Team Tips	Judge's Sheet	Judge's Notes
Scoring Elements	National Envirothon Oral Presentations	2010's Oral Presentation Problem
2011's Oral Presentation Problem	2011's Oral Presentation Problem Maps

Current Environmental Issues

Core CEI Resources

Introduction to Current Environmental Issues                          

Mixed Messages Obscure the Importance of Action                        

Making Decisions Based on Scientific Uncertainty           

Featured Watershed—Broad River Watershed – (Changing from Featured Conservationist)

1. Broad River Basin—(DENR)                                                                                                       

2. Town of Lake Lure-Erosion Control-Do your Part to Stop Sedimentation (Town of Lake Lure web site)

Climate Change

3. The Next ice Age – (Discover Magazine-Brad Lemley 2002)

4. Global Climate Change—Causes – (Climate.nasa.gov)                                                              

5. Rising Seas May Make N.C. Coast Unrecognizable—(Bruce Henderson-Charlotte observer) 

Biodiversity/Wildlife

6. Biodiversity Background Information for Educators—(American Forest Foundation-PLT)         

7. SpongeBob-Mushroom Discovered in the Forests of Borneo—(Science daily/2011)                 

8. Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning: Maintaining Natural Life Support Processes—(Ecological Soc. Of America)

9. Rising Seas Endanger Wetland Wildlife—(Smithsonian – 2010)                                                 

10. White-Nose Syndrome and North Carolina—an Overview (US F&WS & NC WRC)

Energy/ Air Quality

11. This Northeast N.C. Wind Farm has a Chance-(John Murawski-Raleigh News & Observer)

12. New Japanese Wind Turbine Triples Power Output Without Increasing Size (Siegel-2011)     

13. Hydraulic Fracking of Oil & Gas Wells Drilled in Shale—(Geology.com)

14. Rising—(Rodney Foushee-WINC-2000)

15. Blowing in the Wind—(USDA-ARS)

Stormwater/LID

16. The Consequences of Urban Stormwater Pollution—(National Resource Defense Council)

17. Raleigh Retail project Demanded Customized Engineering—(biz.journal.com-2010)

18. Stormwater and You—DENR                                                                                                     

19. Rainfall, Runoff, and Land Use--- (Dr. Jane Frankenberger)

20. Low Impact Development-NRDC

21. Urban Waterways—(Dept. of Biological and Agricultural Engineering-NCSU)

Conservation/Consumerism/&Marine

22. N.C. Helps Create Forests from Trees (Weeks Act)—(US Forest Service)                             

23. Sparing the Rare Earths—(Science News-2011)

24. Japan’s Tsunami Debris Headed for California Beaches—(calcoast news-2011)                   

North Carolina Envirothon Program
Steve Bennett
(919) 791-4307