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BC Ministry of Agriculture and Lands
Description: The ministry is committed to providing the business climate for a competitive and profitable industry providing safe, high quality food for consumers and export markets.
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BC Ministry of Environment
Description: The ministry's vision is a clean, healthy and naturally diverse environment that enriches people's lives, now and in the future.
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E-Flora BC
Description: E-Flora BC is a GIS-based biogeographic atlas of the plants of British Columbia that represents new frontiers in information gathering, compiling, visualization and presentation.
In taking advantage of the power of the internet and combining it with GIS and statistical analyses, E-Flora BC provides critical information on BC plant species and their ecology. As a "living" atlas of BC plants, E-Flora is updated on an on-going open-ended basis.
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The USDA ARS Poisonous Plant Research Laboratory
Description: The mission of the Poisonous Plant Research Laboratory is to identify toxic plants, isolate and identify plant toxins, determine the mechanism of toxicity, document toxin metabolism and clearance from tissues, develop diagnostic and prognostic procedures, identify conditions of poisoning, and develop management strategies, antidotes, treatments and other recommendations to reduce losses, insure product quality and promote animal and human health.
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The USDA NRCS Plants Database
Description: The PLANTS Database provides standardized information about the vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, hornworts, and lichens of the U.S. and its territories.
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