This guide covers siting, designing, and monitoring stream restoration projects to maximize ecological benefits. Additional topics covered include installing riparian buffers, flood studies, and an introduction to fluvial processes.

The Adaptation Workbook is a structured process to consider the potential effects of climate change and design land management and conservation actions that can help prepare for changing conditions. The process is completely flexible to accommodate a wide variety of geographic locations, ownership types, ecosystems and land uses, management goals, and project sizes.

This detailed guidebook summarizes the best current knowledge on using beaver to restore streams, floodplains, wetlands and riparian systems. It summarizes beaver ecology, watershed-level planning, beaver dam analogues, urban and general population management, and dam viability amongst other topics.

This implementation guide serves as step-by-step guidance ot implement NBS in coastal areas across the globe.

The Fire and Fuels Extension from FVS is a helpful tool for forest fuel management. This guidebook provides examples, stand visualizations, and outputs from the software.

Provides a detailed approach to managing forests in the urban setting.

This report summarizes the NBS managers in cities across teh US used to solve their unique green infrastructure challenges, the reasoning for selecting these solutions, and outcomes when applicable. It includes a repository of projets readers can find EPA reports on categorized by which step of the implementation process they may be most pertient to.

Provides guidance on implementing urban tree planting projects from start to finish.

The U.S. Climate Resilience Toolkit is a website designed to help people find and use tools, information, and subject matter expertise to build climate resilience. It includes 600+ tools, 250+ case studies, regional content, trainings/webinars, a glossary of resilience terms, and lets users navigate based off of topic, hazard, asset and region. It also includes a 'Steps to Reislience' framework that can be used to identify and manage climate risk(s) and a funding section for resilience-specific government funding prorgams .

A guide to help assess the urban canopy/street trees within a project area. Provides external sources to help with assessment, management, and modeling.

This tool kit provides information on developing an urban forest management plan.

Provides a more user-friendly adaptation of The Sustainable Urban Forest: A Step-by-Step Approach (Leff 2016). This is a full-service resource for all the guides, case studies, and research needed for an urban forestry project.

Overview of the process of urban tree canopy assessment, including best practices and additional resources.

This resource provides information on training opportunities within the DOI to inform invasive species management.

This portal contains links to WRCS resources specific to particular regions of the United States, including assessments of structure effectiveness.

The Sand Availability and Needs Determination (SAND) study quantifies sand needs and available sand resources for all current beach nourishment projects, both federal and non-federal, in the South Atlantic Division (SAD) of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) for the next 50 years. This site links to the SAND 2020 summary report (must use web archive to view), a SAND dashboard, SAND web app, and a dredged material management area geodatabase all created as a part of the broader SAND study. 

This report offers details regarding the use of natural and nature-based features (NNBF) to improve coastal resilience and was designed to support post-Hurricane Sandy recovery efforts under the North Atlantic Coast Comprehensive Study (NACCS). An integrative framework is offered herein that focuses on classifying NNBF, characterizing vulnerability, developing performance metrics, incorporating regional sediment management, monitoring and adaptively managing from a systems perspective, and addressing key policy challenges. 

The Coastal Change Hazards Portal provides interactive access to coastal change science and data for our Nation’s coasts. Information and products are organized within three coastal change hazard themes: 1) extreme storms, 2) shoreline change, and 3) sea-level rise. Additionally, it diisplays the probabilities of coastal erosion.

EPA’s CRWU initiative provides drinking water, wastewater, and stormwater (water sector) utilities with practical tools, training, and technical assistance to increase system resilience to near- and longer-term weather variability. This site links to several tools useful for NBS projects, including climate risk assessment guides, streamflow projection maps, a snowpack projection map, and webinars/trainings that may help inform water utility managers on green alternatives to standard operating. 

This webpage includes links to various examples of green infrastructure useful for drought preparations. This includes links to rainwater harvesting regulations for each state, studies evaluating the potential water saving capability of different interventions, regional green infrastructure plans, and more.