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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 website provides information on invasive species within Alaska and how to manage, prevent, and report them.

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This website provides information on invasive species within Alaska and how to manage, prevent, and report them.

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This guide aids land managers in writing an invasive species management plan and monitoring the outcomes and adaptive management strategies.

Provides agency leaders with vegetation and wildland fire/fuel information to enable strategic fire planning.

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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.

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This technical document delves into the hydrodynamic, terrestrial, and ecological parameters that impact living shoreline creation projects. Additional topics include regulatory considerations and invasive species management.

This training encompasses the technical aspects of implementing and maintaining living shoreline creation projects. The authors provide in-depth design guidelines and information about the permitting process.

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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.

Review of salt marsh restoration practices with a special emphasis on adaptative management for sea level rise. Topics covered include erosion reduction, modelling sea level rise, and engineering considerations for salt marsh restoration.

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.

Explains how built wetlands function, project design, construction, operations, and monitoring.

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This best management practices guide describes practices for retaining or improving habitat connectivity for amphibians and reptiles in California.

This database provides information on control techniques, examples of projects, method effectiveness, and handbooks/other resources.

Ecological and engineering principles for restoring wetlands, including site assessment, design and construction, vegetation establishment, and monitoring and ongoing management.

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. 

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This document outlines the national forest strategy for reforestation across the country. Reforestation is one of the most essential approaches for forest restoration, and this guide provides a framework for government agencies managing reforestation projects.

This website contains training programs to prepare fire managers from different government agencies to conduct safe and effective prescribed burns.

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This website provides information for each state’s plant diagnostics lab(s), which aim to support the health and productivity of plants affected by pests and pathogens.

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This document is a job aid that aims to provide Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) personnel and stakeholders with field guidance specific to Puerto Rico on using Natural and Nature-Based Solutions (NNBS) to stabilize shorelines through the protection, enhancement or restoration and creation of sand dunes in alignment with FEMA’s strategic goals for climate resilience.

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