Spatially explicit sagebrush conservation plan to identify priority areas for collaborative conservation.

Identifies sagebrush restoration projects by USFWS funded through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.

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.

Identifies geographic areas within which seeds and native plants can be transferred based on current and future climate data.

The Conservation Webinar Portal provides live and on-demand webinars on multi-discipline topics by specialists primarily for the East service area states and the Caribbean.

The Data Access Viewer (DAV) allows a user to search for and download elevation (lidar), imagery, and land cover data for the coastal U.S. and its territories. 

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.

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

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. 

Tool to assess the probability of erosion after a prescribed burn in sagebrush ecosystems, based on climate, soil, vegetation, slope, and fire characteristics.

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. 

Compilation of resources for grassland and sagebrush restoration practitioners, including a web map for priority sagebrush areas, links to existing projects, and data synthesis on invasive annual grasses.

The purpose of this document is to provide a resource that communities can use to identify and evaluate a range of potential mitigation actions for reducing risk to natural hazards and disasters. The focus of this document is mitigation, which is action taken to reduce or eliminate long-term risk to hazards. The document discusses 16 natural hazards, and describes mitigation strategies across several different aspects of mitigation within them. These include regulations requirements through FEMA, education prorgams, and natural systems protection (NBS) ideas. 

This monitoring protocol includes an optional implementation data sheet to track project implementation, landowner satisfaction, and landowner compliance for offices with no standardized implementation monitoring protocol, an effectiveness assessment data sheet to assess progress toward meeting the specific biological and/or physical objectives established for a project, and guidance and data sheets for collecting and documenting digital images to substantiate assessments of project success. 

This page links ot the social vulnerability layer of the national risk index map. As a consequence enhancing risk component of the National Risk Index, a Social Vulnerability score and rating represent the relative level of a community’s social vulnerability compared to all other communities at the same level. A community’s Social Vulnerability score measures its national rank or percentile. A higher Social Vulnerability score results in a higher Risk Index score.

The National Risk Index is a dataset and online tool to help illustrate the United States communities most at risk for 18 natural hazards. The Risk Index leverages available source data for natural hazard and community risk factors to develop a baseline risk measurement for each United States county and Census tract.

The Partners for Fish and Wildlife Program mobilizes over 200 field biologists to provide private landowners with free technical and financial assistance to imrpove habitat conservation on their land. This includes: the planning, implementation, and monitoring of projects; partner and funding identification; and permitting guidance.

Decision-support map tool to identify priority sites for sagebrush management based on management priorities for restored or conserved habitats.

This document outlines the uses of the Habitat Priority Planner (HPP), which is a spatial decision support tool esigned to assist users in the prioritization of important areas in the landscape or seascape for conservation or reservation action. In addition to summarizing the development of the tool, this guide discusses the major uses of the tool, core functions, and set up instructions. It also includes a handy workbook-style exercise to walk through using the tool. 

This resource library houses online tools and resources like project examples, webinar clips, GIS tools, and federal research and reports.