Tools and Trainings

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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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Decision support tools for natural resource managers in sagebrush communities and across the Pacific Northwest

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The Conservation Biology Institute, the Great Basin LCC, Oregon State University, and EcoAdapt hosted a workshop that presented a series of decision support tools for land managers in the PNW. You can access the tools discussed at the workshop, from this webpage.

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ModelMap – Paint a picture across the landscape

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ModelMap software, created by specialists working for the Rocky Mountain Research Station, automates and simplifies the map modeling process, allowing researchers and land managers to visualize complicated geospatial data, develop predictions, and communicate it all to stakeholders and other researchers.

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