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The National Wildfire Coordinating Group (NWCG) Standards for Prescribed Fire Planning and Implementation establishes national interagency standards for the planning and implementation of prescribed fire. This PDF document provides information about relevant authorities for prescribed fire implementation, documents required for planning and authorizing prescribed burns, lessons learned, and outline of responsibiltiies during prescribed burns.

The Fish and Wildlife Service's on-line mapper contains data for active, proposed, and final critical habitat for threatened and endangered wildlife and plant species. In addition to information about individual wildlife and plant species, shape files are available for download with polygons of critical habitat areas.

Collaborative Mapper lets multiple users interactively create and edit geospatial data. No more sending multiple files back and forth. Start a map, invite collaborators, and seamlessly edit the data together.

The Land Treatment Exploration Tool (LTET) is designed to assist land managers with the rangeland restoration and/or rehabilitation planning process. The tool assembles information about a site, including past treatments from the Land Treatment Digital Library, and wildfires recorded within the site. You can also extract data from multiple GIS layers to give you a comprehensive overview of your site. Using statistical similarity indices you can find past treatments that most closely match your planned treatment area based on climate and topography indices. Similar past treatments can be explored and compared to your planned treatment and help you identify not only the best path forward, but also justification for the methods used in your own treatment. See CCAST webinar about LTET seasonal forecast of ecological drought: https://youtu.be/nIGerxDY4ms?t=255