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The Standard Precipitation Index Explorer Tool is a helpful tool for understanding severity of drought. The Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI) is a widely used drought index that has several strenghts including the ability to calculate precipitation anomalies at different timescales and the ability to interpret SPI units (standard deviations) in probabilistic terms. This tool was created to explore SPI values at specific locations by using a gridded climate dataset (PRISM Climate) to estimate local precipitation time series. Data are accessed through the Applied Climate Information Web Service and analyzed and plotted using several R based packages. This version of the tool includes the calculation of the Standardized Precipitation-Evapotranspiration Index (SPEI). See a CCAST Case Study that used the SPI Explorer Tool here: https://arcg.is/1zaaz81 and webinar here: https://youtu.be/nIGerxDY4ms?t=974

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 workbook can be useful for grassland managers and restoraiton practitioners seeking to plan for climate adaptation and increase the resilience of the grasslands they manage to climate change. A menu of climate adaptation strategies for grasslands is in development and will be available soon at: https://forestadaptation.org/focus/grasslands

InciWeb contains data about current wildfires, prescribed burns, and burned area emergency responses (BAER). It can help grassland managers and restoraiton practitioners know about fires in their area in real time, as well as connect them to useful information about fire and other emergencies. Data includes maps of fire perimiters, updates about current fires, and more, for the USA. See the Links page for useful information, statistics, mapping tools, and contact information for organizations and coordination centers related to fire. is an interagency all-risk incident information management system. It provides the public with a single source of incident related information and a standardized reporting tool for the Public Affairs community.

This web map application was created to simplify the display of MOD44B data in the Altar Valley Conservation Alliance's area of interst as a time series. MOD44B is remote sensed data (MODIS) measuring of the proportion of tree canopy, non-tree vegetation, and non-vegetated ground cover.

Vegetation GIS Data System (VGS) is a suite of software applications for recording, managing and using vegetation and other ecosystem related data. The suite provides electronic tools for recording data in the field (using tablets or other devices) as well as historical data in the office. It also provides local and on line data repositories for organizing and managing data, photos, documents, spatial coordinates and other information associated with an unlimited number of study sites or locations. Furthermore, it provides reports, mapping and other tools for summary and presentation of results in the field and in the office. See CCAST Case Study that used VGS here: https://arcg.is/1zaaz81

SoilWeb Apps provide a variety of map-based tools that can access USDA-NRCSS detailed soil survey data (SSURGO) for most of the United States.

Web Soil Survey (WSS) provides soil data and information produced by the National Cooperative Soil Survey. It is operated by the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) and provides access to the largest natural resource information system in the world. The WSS provides detailed information about soil data and links to ecological site descriptions. The web-based interactive tool allows users to delineate an region of interest (ROI) and find a wealth of relevant edaphic and ecological data related to this ROI.

The Land Potential Knowledge System (LandPKS) tools allow users to learn about the land and produce site-specific data at any specific location in the world. The mobile app can help users understand the land's potential based on soil type, topography, and climate. The LandPKS tool can help users understand how much water and carbon the land can store, how much it can produce, and whether it can support a particular type of habitat – in order to make decisions about what to use it for, how to manage it, and what degraded land to prioritize for restoration.

The Climate Smart Restoration Tool (CSRT) is a collaboration between the US Forest Service, Oregon State University, Bureau of Land Management and the Conservation Biology Institute. The CSRT was developed to provide information on seed collection and transfer of native plants. It maps current and future seed transfer limits for plant species with or without genetic information using climate data generating from ClimateNA.The CSRT uses genecological functions to map seed transfer limits of select species. The number of species with genetic information will evolve in time as more genetic data becomes available.

EcoRestore is a one stop shop for all things ecological restoration in Arizona. It includes a quiz-based decision support too to help select appropriate species based on location, soil, ecology, and land management. This decision suport tool addresses the need for practitioners and any level of expertise and land type/size to investigate potential species for restoration based on site characteristics and management goals, and generates a list of candidate species.