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The National Biological Survey asked me to post the following announcement.
I am happy to oblige because this report will be valuable to the
Environmental Community.
 
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Dr. Alan R. Fisher
National Data Administrator
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
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The National Biological Service's Information Transfer Center announces the
availability of "Endangered Ecosystems of the United States: A Preliminary
Assessment of Loss and Degradation."  This is the first in a continuing
series of NBS reports to be released electronically prior to publication in
hardcopy.
 
The report may be cited as follows:
 
Noss, R., Scott M., and E.T. LaRoe. 1995.  Endangered ecosystems of the
United States: A preliminary assessment of loss and degradation. Biological
Report 28. February 1995.  National Biological Service. 58 pp.
 
The document is in WordPerfect 5.1 format and is available with and without
photographs, as follows:
 
(1)    To receive this document without photographs (400KB zipped to 150KB)
       from the Information Transfer Center's cc:Mail library server, send
       an email message to one of the following addresses:
 
       NBSITCLIB              (for users of FWS cc:MAIL)
 
       NBSITCLIB at ~IFWS     (for users of DOI cc:MAIL outside FWS)
 
       [log in to unmask] (for users of Internet email)
 
       Type SEND ECOSYSTEM MS as the only entry on the subject line.  Do
       not type information on the message line.  It will not be read.  For
       information about other documents on the NBS cc:Mail library server,
       send a message to the above address and type SEND HELP as the only
       entry on the subject line.  Internet email users may need to decode
       the file with UUDECODE.  Contact your systems administrator for
       assistance.
 
(2)    To retrieve a copy of this document with photographs (2.7MB) from an
       ftp server, access the following ftp site:
 
       ftp.its.nbs.gov (165.83.32.5)
 
       Log in as ftp or anonymous and go to /pub/nbs-series.  The file is
       called ecosystem.manuscript.  Make sure your ftp client is set to
       binary transfer mode.
 
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       A limited number of printed copies of the document will be available
       after mid-April 1995.  To obtain a copy, contact:
 
       USFWS Publications Unit
       4401 North Fairfax Drive
       Mail Stop Code 130
       WEBB Building
       Arlington, Virginia 22203
       (703) 358-1711
       FAX (703) 358-2314