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Ecoregional Revegetation Application (ERA)

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The ERA Tool is a map-based, searchable application to select native plants for restoration and pollinator habitat enhancement by US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Level III Ecoregions. Since ecoregions are areas of similar climate and topography that contain characteristic, geographically distinct assemblages of natural communities and species, they are an ideal organizing unit for selecting plants for restoration. State floras, on the other hand, have many species that only occur in some ecoregions and are not appropriate choices for restoration elsewhere.

Contact: Mark Skinner, USDA Forest Service, 503-312-1656, [email protected]

The ERA is part of a comprehensive national revegetation learning project called Roadside Revegetation: An Integrated Approach to Establishing Native Plants and Pollinator Habitat. Learn more http://www.nativerevegetation.org

Aspen Spatial Bibliography

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This interactive map and database highlights aspen research as it relates to regions in primarily North America.

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Severe fire weather potential mapping system – USFS Wildland Fire Assessment System

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This mobile-friendly, current, and interactive map combines data from the National Digital Forecast Database and RAWS surface weather observations.

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Communities threatened by wildfire, 2000-2017

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This interactive map identifies frequently threatened towns and cities, including the different sizes and distances of wildfires from nearby communities.

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Severe fire weather potential mapping system

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A mobile-friendly, current, interactive fire risk map.

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Great Basin Weather Applications

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Data, weather, and tools to provide timely and site-specific information about long-term patterns of weather and microsite variability for rangeland restoration planning and management.

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Songbird abundance layer – An Interactive Web App from the Sage-Grouse Initiative

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Map additions to the SGI Web App allow users to easily visualize songbird distribution, bolstering multi-species conservation across the American West.

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Interagency Fuels Treatment Decision Support System (IFTDSS)

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IFTDSS is a web-based software and data integration framework that organizes previously existing and newly developed fire and fuels software applications to make fuels treatment planning and analysis more efficient and effective.  You must create an account to begin using this tool.

New 2021, compare weather impacts on fire behavior with IFTDSS.

Read more about IFTDSS update 3.1.1

Read more about Landscape Burn Probability capabilities added to IFTDSS in July 2019

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Society for Range Management’s Targeted Grazing website

The SRM Targeted Grazing website provides access to:

  • Trainings and events
  • Videos
  • Grazing prescriptions
  • other resources.
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Sage-grouse: Life cycle in photos

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The photos in this story come from Sage Grouse: Icon of the West by Noppadol Paothong, a new book about the beautiful sagebrush landscape and the unique bird that defines its ecosystem and culture.

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