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The Soil Health Institute curates a searchable list of resources and tools related to soil health. Search through links, documents, videos and more in a number of categories that may be of interest to land managers and applied researchers seeking to improve soil health in a range of contexts.

Handbook for the use of Ecologically Based Invasive Plant Management produced by USDA ARS for annual invasive grasses.

iBiocontrol is a repository of informatoin on biological control (biocontrol) of undesirable plant species (weeds). Biological control reunites host-specific natural enemies from a weed's native range with the target weed. Search by host, state, publisher, or agent to find resources to help with implementation of biocontrol efforts. iBiocontrol also contains mobile applications for recording and monitoring data that use survey 123. Find distribution maps of biological control agents, and search catalogs of biocontrol agents and their target weeds.

Trends.Earth is a free and open source tool to understand land change: the how and why behind changes on the ground. Trends.Earth allows users to draw on the best available information from across a range of sources - from globally available data to customized local maps. A broad range of users are applying Trends.Earth for projects ranging from planning and monitoring restoration efforts, to tracking urbanization, to developing official national reports for submission to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD).

The Early Detection and Distributtion Mapping System (EDDMapS) is a web-based mapping system for documenting invasive species and pest distribution. It is fast, easy to use, and doesn't require Geographic Information Systems experience. THe system currently covers all of the SUA and Canada. EDDMapS aggregates data from other databases and organizations as well as volunteer observations to create a national network of invasive species and pest distribution data that is shared with educators, land managers, conservation biologists, and beyond. Both a destktop and mobile application, EDDMapS allows easy, real time tracking of invasive species, both plant and animal. Through EDDMapS, participants can submit their observations or view results through interactive queries into the EDDMapS database. Participants can maintain their personal records and visualize data with interactive maps. All data is reviewed by verifiers prior to appearing on maps and in data queries to ensure all data is accurate. The data is made freely available to everyone, including scientists, researchers, land managers, land owners, educators, conservationists, ecologists, farmers, foresters, state and national parks, etc.

My RAINge Log is an easy-to-use tool to help track actual rainfall and facilitate better land management. The platrofm brings together cutting edge web technology, climate data, and visualization tools focused on collecting and analyzing cumulative precipitation from remote, unattended rain gauges. My RAINge Log is specifically designed around the type of infrequent, cumulative precipitation observations often collected at remote, rangeland sites. It adds unique ‘climate context’ and near-real time precipitation alerts based on gridded climate estimates. These features help managers put data in context (“Does this precipitation observation indicate drought or not?”) helps to quickly interpret data, and supports management decisions. See a CCAST Case Study that used my RAINge Log here: https://arcg.is/1zaaz81 and webinar here: https://youtu.be/nIGerxDY4ms?t=974

The U.S. Climate Resilience Toolkit helps users document climate hazards that could harm the things they care about, decide which situations they most want to avoid, and come up with workable solutions to reduce climate-related risks. It also allows users to search through a database of Case Studies to explore how others are using the Climate Resilience Toolkit and increasing their resilience to climate change. It also contains a list of over 500 digital tools to help users take steps to build resilience and develop climate action plans. Connect with climate experts, access climate reports, sign up for training courses, and view climate summaries through the U.S. Climate Resilience Toolkit website.

Data catalog of publicly available earth system raster datasets from Google.

EEFlux (Earth Engine Evapotranspiration Flux) is a version of METRIC (Mapping Evapotranspiration at high Resolution with Internalized Calibration) that operates on the Google Earth Engine system. EEFlux has been developed by the consortium of University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Desert Research Institute and University of Idaho with funding support by Google. EEFlux processes individual Landsat scenes from any period from 1984 through present and for nearly every land area on the Globe to produce values of evapotranspiration. Users can specify start and stop dates and a specific area of interest to find evapotranspiration rates. EEFlux searches the Google archive for Landsat images and provide a list of images for the location and permit the user to select one image to process. Once an image has been selected, EEFlux will present a list of data layers that can be displayed in the map window. The ETrF and ET-actual images can be downloaded as geo-tiff files using the hot links on the EEFlux site.

The North American Bird Conseration Initiative's (NABCI) Resource Directory is a searchable database of resources related to bird conservation. Search by keyword or category to find relevant resources to help with conservation of North American bird populations.