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Nature-Based Solutions Tools Search

This database contains over 400 tools and resources that can help guide practitioners at various stages of the nature-based solutions project cycle. Use the filters to identify the tools and resources most useful to you.

You can filter the full list by the habitat type you’re working in, the nature-based solutions strategy you want to use, the project phase you are looking for help with, or the type of tool/resource you’re looking for.

The tools and resources shown here were gathered through a robust search of both federal and non-federal sources. We recognize that this library will never be completely comprehensive, but if you know of an important missing tool or resource, please email nesp@duke.edu.

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This document provides best management practices for land managers to prevent the introduction and spread of invasive species.

This guidebook provides information on how to prevent invasive species establishment, maintain native forests, and eradicate invasive species in southern forests.

This document provides information on integrated pest management principles and focal landscapes for the different federal agencies.

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The plan outlines government agency strategies to address invasive and nuisance aquatic species.

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This guide provides information on managing invasive species for biodiversity within protected areas. This guide is meant for practitioners.

This document includes an actionable plan to develop a REPI (Readiness and Environmental Protection Integration Program) resilience project for military installations and project partners using nature based solutions.

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This dataset provides standardized information on invasive species (currently only weeds, but will expand to all invasive taxa).

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This guide is meant to help facilitate collaboration, create management plans, and conduct targeted actions plan for invasive species in the northeastern United States.

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Provides a guide to planning and implementing a prescribed burn and reviewing the burn after it is complete.

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This guide helps managers in the process of slash pile construction and burning.

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This strategy outlines the USFS’s interagency approach to confronting the wildfire crisis. It touches on collaborative burn strategies more broadly.

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These reforms acknowledge the shared responsibility for disaster response and recovery, aim to reduce the complexity of FEMA, and build the nation’s capacity for the next catastrophic event. The law contains 56 distinct provisions that require FEMA policy or regulation changes for full implementation, and includes discussion on mitigation strategies that include NBS. This page provides an overview of each provision.

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This webpage allows people to report invasive species, monitor current distribution, learn about management methods, and get species information.

This document highlights engineering with nature (EWN) principles/projects by providing illustrations and descriptions of constructed projectsaround the contiguous U.S. and globe.

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EnviroAtlas data and resources can be used to inform a range of projects, from regional to local scales. This easy to use, interactive mapping application does not require any GIS skills to use and provides ready access to 536 map layers likegreen space per capita, mammal species richness or percent developed area and multiple analysis tools. EPA uses this tool for uses like project implementation (e.g. permitting) and designing targeted outreach strategies, but the site includes a repository of diverse ways this tool can be used in advancing all types of environmental work. 

This order explains the duties to be performed by all federal agencies to limit the impacts of invasive species throughout the United States.

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FEMA's geoplatform, including its geospatial resource center, facilitates information sharing between the federal government, NGOs, and the public. It includes geospatial data on hurricanes, floods, wildfires, and several other hazards that can be used for visualizing, siting, and exploring potential NBS implementation sites. 

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This guide gives actionable information on how to manage invasive cheatgrass.

This guide provides a protocol for land managers to monitor, map, and inventory invasive species. This guide aids in collaborative management by providing information that can be shared across jurisdictions. Because it is an older resource, the technical mapping data may be outdated.

This document gives an overview of how to use prescribed fire for grassland management in the United States.

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