This guide gives actionable information on how to manage invasive cheatgrass.
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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 a protocol for land managers to monitor, map, and inventory invasive species. This guide aids in collaborative management by providing information that can be shared across jurisdictions. Because it is an older resource, the technical mapping data may be outdated.
This best practices guide illustrates a variety of incentives states use to encourage consideration and implementation of green infrastructure (as well as other NBS adoption strateges) and foster sustainability within their programs.
This resource explains the differences between constructed and existing firebreaks and how to use them for prescribed burns.
This checklist includes overall strategies to improve flood resilience as well as specific strategies to conserve land and discourage development in river corridors; to protect people, businesses, and facilities in vulnerable settlements; to direct development to safer areas; and to implement and coordinate stormwater management practices throughout the whole watershed.
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.
Incorporating the natural dynamism in dune ecosystems into restoration projects is covered in the chapter, in addition to specific techniques. The authors also discuss the benefits involved with dune restoration and balancing restoration with recreation.
This resource manual provides examples of adaptation strategies for alternate forest management in northeast, upper midwest, and urban forests across the United States. It also includes several workbooks forest managers can use to plan and implement these adaptation strategies.
This strategy document outlines methods that government agencies can employ to promote open space conservation, including forests.
This guide provides information on how to conduct a variety of fuel reduction projects.
This quick reference guide briefly covers different funding and financing options for coastal resilience projects. It covers tax proceeds, fees, grants, public-private partnerships, crowdfunding platforms, voluntary surcharges, loans, state revolving funds, muncipal/local government bonds, environmental impact bonds, green bonds, resilience bonds, and parametric insurance.
This guide helps link specific management actions to desired ecosystem services, as management choices have a large impact on which benefits a project will yield. Additional topics covered include oyster reef restoration techniques, socioeconomic outcomes of restoration and multiple case studies.
This report identifies various funding sources that can be used to support stormwater management programs or finance individual projects. This includes financing options for individual projects and larger-scale programs, examples of existing muncipal programs and a resource list to further explain opportunities.
Compilation of resources for grassland and sagebrush restoration practitioners, including a web map for priority sagebrush areas, links to existing projects, and data synthesis on invasive annual grasses.
This document gives an overview of how to use prescribed fire for grassland management in the United States.
This online guide is a hub where planners and practitioners share solutions, best practices, and lessons learned for building resilience, as well as the necessary tools, data and maps, and publications. The guide shares community-authored case studies that provide explicit direction on the best practices and tools to use. Learn more about the collaborative process used to develop the Great Lakes Coastal Resilience Planning Guide.
This short fact sheet explains how green infrastructure can be used to protect coral reefs and lists out tools and resources interested parties can use to explore green infrastructure capabilities.
This guide is an abridged version of a longer guide available by request through NOAA's Office of Coastal Management. It summarizes the most common green infrastructure practices and how they may reduce flood risk, provides planning/implementation considerations, and a helpful chart to estimate an interventions water storage potential and associated costs.
This resource guide provides a brief overview of green ifnrastructre interventions before explaining green infrastructure/engineering soutions to 11 infrastructure planning concerns. Each section breaks down specific engineering design options to address the issue, design and siting considerations, monitoring and evaluation resources, and tips on raising awareness and education about the topic issue.
This toolkit provides basic information about green roofs, their benefits, installation considerations, and maintenance needs.