Website with links to more than 20 resources relating to floodplain reconnection. These include handbooks on floodplain reconnection, using nature to mitigate flood damage, and floodplain planning strategies.

This guide details the process of monitoring riparian restoration projects. The authors explain the reasoning behind monitoring, what to monitor, and monitoring techniques.

EPA's Healthy Watersheds Program vision is to protect and maintain the aquatic ecological integrity of watersheds and supporting habitat networks to ensure that future generations may enjoy these resources and the social and economic benefits that they provide.The site includes several resource to design outreach plans, locate existing watershed restoration projects, and guidance on developing a watershed health index to evaluate your own watershed. 

Collection of case studies containing past floodplain reconnection projects, including habitat restoration and side channel creation. At the bottom of the page, Inter-Fluve also has information for related nature-based solutions (NBS) such as dam removal, large log design, and off channel habitat restoration.

Comprised of numerous detailed diagrams, this tool provides technical information for assessing a waterbody and determining the appropriate restoration technique. In depth information is also given about contractor relations and project execution.

Encompassing all aspects of large wood designs, this guide covers their geomorphic, hydrological, and ecological considerations. The authors also discuss the risks involved, regulatory considerations, and monitoring.

The authors show how river restoration centers around restoring the hydrological processes that make a riverine system successful. The guide focuses on low-tech and cost-efficient solutions, including beaver dam analogs and assisted wood accumulation.

This guide explains how beaver management fits into larger river and stream restoration projects. Topics covered include designing BDAs, implementing projects, and restoring river health.

Beavers are an integral part of stream ecology, but also can create hazards. This helps managers mitigate hazards while maximizing benefits from beavers by analyzing mitigation measures and reintroduction strategies.

Focusing on the technical aspects of building BDAs, this guide walks practitioners through the steps of building a BDA. Filled with helpful diagrams and pictures, the geomorphic and hydrologic implications of beaver management are also discussed.

The National Mitigation Investment Strategy is a single national strategy for advancing mitigation investment to reduce risks posed by and increase the nation’s resilience to natural hazards, such as sea level rise, droughts, tornadoes, hurricanes, floods, wildfires, and earthquakes. This portfolio showcases mitigation projects to provide practitioners with examples of activities that integrate the Investment Strategy’s goals and reflect the guiding principles of the Disaster Recovery Reform Act of 2018 (DRRA).

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.

Compiled by scientists, the NRRSS database contains information about more than 37,000 river restoration projects in the United States It also collects scientific papers on river connectivity that originated from information found in the database.

This job aid is designed to equip FEMA personnel and stakeholders with the necessary knowledge and field-oriented, practical advice for successful streambank stabilization works in Puerto Rico through the application of Natural and Nature-Based Solutions (NNBS). This involves restoring, protecting and enhancing riparian buffers and vegetation along the streams in Puerto Rico, especially those with repetitive loss, consistent with FEMA's strategic objectives for enhancing climate resilience.

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.

Website with links to resources about floodplain management collaboration, permitting through the US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), and managing contractors. The site also provides resources tailored toward tribal projects, communication, and monitoring mechanisms.

This document is designed to give users a better understanding for how HMA grants are a viable funding source for nature-based solutions to hazard mitigation. This includes an overview of selecting appropriate NBS for a given hazard and location, FEMA HMA requirments, and how to maximize benefits for a given project.