This reference documents lists regional coastal management and climate service contacts, and links to federal resources discussing NBS and future conditions. These include guidbeooks, toolkits, mapping tools, visalizers, databases and handouts.
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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 strategy outlines the USFS’s interagency approach to confronting the wildfire crisis. It touches on collaborative burn strategies more broadly.
The Conservation Concerns Tool lets landowners build out a concerns list which they can take to their local USDA Service Center to assist with designing solutions to their concerns.
This document provides information on how to implement and maintain standard firebreaks. It also explains essential considerations to keep in mind when constructing these interventions.
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.
This document guides appllicants through the conception, design, and implementation process for coral restoration for risk reduction (CR4) projects for hazard mitigation funding.
Containing information about designing coral reef restoration projects specifically for reducing flood risk, this guide provides the key components needed to make a project successful. The authors outline federal funding available for coral reef restoration projects, including advice about the application process.
This guide focuses on identifying the agents of coral reef degradation and developing a plan to mitigate these drivers of decline. The authors provide information on identifying signs of reef decline to inform the creation of relevant restoration goals.
This module provides training on integrating NBS and water quality issues into state or local Hazard Mitigation Plans. It includes discussion on funding, designing and planning these integrations.
This document outlines preferred culvert design guidelines when used as a crossing structure in fish-bearing streams per the USFWS Alaska Fish Passage Program. It includes design considerations, a site survey checklist, and pre- and mid-construction checklists.
This guide provides information on designing and maintaining green roofs in arid western states. It provides information on when certain types of green roofs are most appropriate and their different benefits.
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.
Covering dune ecology and engineering, this guide gives specific instructions for restoring both front and back dune ecosystems. Additional topics covered include season variability, dune breaches, Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) dune standards, and invasive species.
Individualized guidance for each US ecoregion detailing the plants appropriate for pollinator gardens in that region.
Individualized guidebooks for each US ecoregion detailing the pollinators and plants appropriate for pollinator gardens in that region.
This webpage allows people to report invasive species, monitor current distribution, learn about management methods, and get species information.
In a search to find the most effective restoration practices, the authors reviewed numerous restoration projects. Additionally, the guide includes case studies and recommendations to practitioners.
This site includes free tools, data and technical expertise about energy strategies, including energy efficiency, renewable energy and other emerging technologies, to help state, local and tribal governments achieve their environmental, energy, and economic objectives. While many of these resources were developed for state and local governments, Tribes may also find them useful. Several of these tools include programs that users can use to estimate future impacts of energy use, predict costs, and estimate benefits.
This guidebook compiles several case studies illustrating alternative approaches to riverbank stabilization across Washington state.
This document highlights engineering with nature (EWN) principles/projects by providing illustrations and descriptions of constructed projectsaround the contiguous U.S. and globe.