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The Observations Map, created by the Borderlands Avian Data Center, allows users to query, visualize, and investigate bird observation data at surveyed locations in a map interface. It also allows users to identify which data sets are publicly available for further inquiry and analyses.

This tool, created by the Borderlands Avian Data Center, leverages data from the Avian Knowledge Network to help users visualize the projected impacts of a changing climate on birds and habitats across northern Mexico and the southwestern United States.

The Interagency Fuel Treatment Decision Support System (IFTDSS) is a web-based application designed to make fuel treatment planning and analysis more efficient and effective. IFTDSS provides access to data and models through one simple user interface. It is available to all interested users, regardless of agency or organizational affiliation. IFTDSS is designed to address the planning needs of users with a variety of skills, backgrounds, and needs. A simple and intuitive interface provides the ability to model fire behavior across an area of interest under a variety of weather conditions and easily generate downloadable maps, graphs, and tables of model results. Additionally, the application provides a step by step process for testing a variety of fuel treatment impacts (thin, clear cut, prescribed burn) on fire behavior and comparing results to determine which modeled treatment best achieves desired results in terms of reduced fire behavior potential. It can be used at a variety of scales from local to landscape level. IFTDSS hosts a complete set of reference data available for the entire US including LANDFIRE fuels information, SILVIS Wildland Urban Interface, Agency Ownership, as well as a modern map interface allowing users to create or upload their own data.

The Protected Areas Database of the United States (PAD-US) is the official inventory of public parks and other protected areas in all U.S. states and territories. This growing database contains more than three billion public land and marine acres managed by nearly 15,100 agencies and nongovernmental organizations, covering 200,000 separate parks and protected areas. Explore the different types of public lands in the United States. National, state, regional, and local organizations all manage protected lands. From the PAD-US map you can identify protected areas managed by various federal agencies such as the Bureau of Land Management, the U.S. Forest Service, and the National Park Service. Or you can view information for recreational areas such as State Parks. Navigate through these lands using an interactive mapper. Download this printable, highly detailed map of all public lands of the U.S. from the National Gap Analysis Program Protected Areas Data Portal.

This guide is based on research and consultations undertaken by the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) concerning the need for a Citizen’s Guide to the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). Participants in the NEPA Regional Roundtables held in 2003-2004 clearly voiced the need for an guide that provides an explanation of NEPA, how it is implemented, and how people outside the Federal government — individual citizens, private sector applicants, members of organized groups, or representatives of Tribal, State, or local government agencies — can better participate in the assessment of environmental impacts conducted by Federal agencies (see http://ceq. eh.doe.gov/ntf). This guide is informational and does not establish new requirements. It is not and should not be viewed as constituting formal CEQ guidance on the implementation of NEPA, nor are recommendations in this guide intended to be viewed as legally binding.

This publication is the second of a two part series of special publications dealing with the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) of 1969. The first Special Publication SP-09-14, titled “Know NEPA,” provides readers detailed background information about the Act, its intent and purpose, authority and implementation. It also provides some rationale regarding why and when it is important to respond to NEPA documents proposing major federal actions that could have an impact upon you in the use and/or enjoyment of federal or public lands. The authors urge users of this publication to read Know NEPA in order to gain a better perspective of the NEPA process. This will at least provide you a clearer idea of what you and the agency will gain from your response, and to what extent you may or may not influence the NEPA process. It will also help you assess your ability to affect, appeal, or challenge the final document and Record of Decision (ROD) if you are severely impacted by the final decision.

The Headwaters Economics produced an interactive map that displays protected areas in every county of the United States. Navigate and download details about state-level summaries and learn more about the impacts public lands have on economic development by reading articles and publications about their impacts.

SoilGrids is a system for global digital soil mapping that makes use of global soil profile information and covariate data to model the spatial distribution of soil properties across the globe. SoilGrids is a collections of soil property maps for the world produced using machine learning at 250 m resolution. Predictions are made at six standard depths. SoilGrids uses global models that are calibrated using all available input observations and globally available environmental covariates. This results in globally consistent predictions (no abrupt changes in predicted values at country boundaries, etc). SoilGrids spatial predictions (layers) are produced using a reproducible soil mapping workflow, and can therefore be regularly updated as new soil data or covariates become available, after quality control and data standardisation/harmonisation. SoilGrids maps are a global soil data product generated at ISRIC — World Soil Information as a result of international collaboration. For more technical and scientific information about SoilGrids contact the development team. For more information about ISRIC and collaboration possibilities please contact the ISRIC Director.

The wheel is a tool designed to assist restoration managers in evaluating the degree to which the ecosystem under treatment is recovering over time. This evaluation should be performed comparing the attribute of the degraded system to its reference ecosystem. The evaluation of each attribute is an assessment of the similarity to the reference ecosystem. A practitioner with a high level of familiarity with the goals, objectives and site specific indicators set for the project and the recovery levels achieved to date can assign the value for each sub-attribute after formal or informal evaluation.

The United States Geological Survey's (USGS) Invasive Species Habitat Tool (INHABIT) is a novel, web-based decision support tool that displays spatial predictions and tabular summaries of habitat suitability from species distribution models for invasive plants across the contiguous United States. INHABIT provides actionable science to support the prevention and management of invasive species.