This guide provides recommendations for various fuel treatments within ponderosa pine forests. It includes social, political, economic, and ecological factors regarding fuel treatments.
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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.
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This guide provides information on how to implement smaller green roofs.
Erosion is a significant issue in arid regions that receive large downpours, a problem this guide seeks to rectify. The authors describe a variety of techniques to retain water, reduce channel incision, and restore buffers.
The author lays out in-depth information about the planning and construction of a vernal pond. The guide provides practical site suitability and budgeting advice to help get projects off the ground.
This resource provides an easy seven-step guide to living shoreline creation projects as well as cost projections, planting guides and permitting considerations. Furthermore, the guide explores hybrid shoreline stabilization methods and recommends techniques based on a property’s characteristics.
Covering all aspects of Phragmites control, this guide recommends a plethora of control and management strategies. Eliminating Phragmites and other invasive species is a major challenge for assisted marsh migration projects.
This guide provides information on different silvicultural treatments used to create and manage fire-resistant forests.
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 guidebook helps restoration managers choose suitable sites for restoration and develop effective restoration strategies. The authors put an emphasis on matching the applicable restoration strategies with an appropriate site for that strategy.
This document provides information on integrated pest management principles and focal landscapes for the different federal agencies.
Developed by the Interagency Workgroup on Wetland Restoration, this guidebook provides information on restoration project planning, implementation, and monitoring.
Coastal communities increasingly realize the need for adaptation strategies, but many are unsure where to begin. Attend this course to gain a thorough grounding and practical skills for incorporating adaptation strategies into planning processes. Time in class is provided to practice applying what you’ve learned, and opportunities for local collaboration and next steps are emphasized through discussion, participant activities, and local speakers and examples.
This toolkit lists several resources and tools that can be used to assess and prevent damages due to post fire flooding and related events.
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This storymap catalogues the Alabama Barrier Island Restoration Assessment whichaimed to investigate viable options for the restoration of Dauphin Island following damage incurred after the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill. It summarizes the needs assessment, baseline assessment, benefit modeling, and solutions approaches used. This storymap could serve as a helpful tool for planning understanding how similar initatives could be undertaken.
This site hosts applciation support materials for the Hazard Mitigation Grant Program to reduce barriers to applicaiton. Each support document provides detailed information on how to submit/complete applications for funding based on the 13 most common project types.
The plan outlines government agency strategies to address invasive and nuisance aquatic species.
This guide provides information on managing invasive species for biodiversity within protected areas. This guide is meant for practitioners.
This library contains a diverse array of resources pertaining to floodplain management, including technical reports and government documents. The library also holds the research of the Flood Science Center, a branch of the ASFPM.
Beach stability determinations, information about permit requirements, and monitoring plans are just some of the information presented in this practical guide. The authors provide a helpful six-step plan for beach nourishment and address the problem of getting source sediment to match the sediment of the receiving beach.