The GCC's website was designed to provide site-users with a simple and comprehensive overview of grassland ecosystems and their importance to the ecology, economy and identity of British Columbia. If you are seeking more specific or in-depth information, there are a number of other sources of information, such as those below.
For further reading on international subjects, please go to the Grasslands of the World.
Welcome to the West: A Guide for People Moving to the Northern Rockies While an American booklet, it has much information of interest to people considering settling in the grasslands of BC.
Gayton, D. (2004) Native and nonnative species in grazed grasslands of British Columbia's Southern Interior. Journal of Ecosystems and Management 5(1): 51-59. http://www.forrex.org/publications/jem/ISS25/vol5_no1_art6.pdf
Gayton, D. (2003) British Columbia Grasslands: Monitoring Vegetation Change. FORREX Series 7. 49 pages. http://www.forrex.org/publications/forrexseries/fs7_Part1.pdf http://www.forrex.org/publications/forrexseries/fs7_Part2.pdf
Leupin, E. E., AND Low, D. J. (2001) Burrowing Owl reintroduction efforts in the Thompson-Nicola region of British Columbia. Journal of Raptor Research 35: 392-398. http://elibrary.unm.edu/sora/jrr/v035n04/p00392-p00398.pdf
Rare Native Vascular Plants of the Southern Okanagan Grasslands - Field Report. http://a100.gov.bc.ca/pub/acat/public/viewReport.do?reportId=9912
Behavioral Education for Human, Animal, Vegetation and Ecosystem Management http://www.behave.net/
Earthtrends www.earthtrends.wri.org
Invasive Plant Resources www.bcgrasslands.org/library/weed.htm
Parks Canada - Grasslands Park http://www.pc.gc.ca/pn-np/sk/grasslands/index_e.asp
Quivera Coalition http://www.quiviracoalition.org/
Society for Range Management http://www.rangelands.org/index.shtml
Species at Risk http://www.sararegistry.gc.ca/default_e.cfm http://www.env.gov.bc.ca/wld/serisk.htm
World Commission on Protected Areas http://www.iucn.org/about/union/commissions/wcpa/wcpa_what/wcpa_conservingsd/wcpa_grasslandstf/
Interactive Key to the Grasses of the Columbia Basin. Living Landscapes website, Royal BC Museum. http://www.livinglandscapes.bc.ca/grasses/intro.jsp
Defoliation: Response of Bluebunch Wheatgrass and Crested Wheatgrass. Cindy L. Meays, Laliberte, Doescher. Rangelands 22 (6).
Grass: The Stockman's Crop. Harland E. Dietz Booklet from Sunshine Unlimited, Inc. Lindsborg, Kansas.
Grassland: The History, Biology, Politics and Promise of the American Prairie. Richard Manning. Penguin (Non-Classics), July 1, 1997.
Grassland Ecology and Classification Symposium Proceedings. June 1982. Eds. A. McLean and T.E. Fisher, Ministry of Forests Province of British Columbia, Kamloops B.C.
The Grasslands of British Columbia. April 2004. Brian and Sandra Wikeem, Grassland Conservation Council of BC.
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