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IPaC is a project planning tool that streamlines the USFWS environmental review process. Users can quickly and easily view their project or activity’s potential impacts on U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service’s Trust Resources, including endangered and threatened species and migratory bird species of concern and leanr about suggested conservation measures.

The Borderlands Avian Data Center (BADC) is a regional node of the Avian Knowledge Network (AKN). It provides a platform for data organization, sharing and coordination of standardized monitoring efforts, as well as data analysis and visualization tools. Whether you are a researcher, student, land manager, or a private citizen with an interest in birds, BADC can help you share, organize, visualize, and analyze bird monitoring data. It can also help you coordinate, streamline, and standardize data entry and protocols.

The Multi-Resolution Land Characteristics (MRLC) Rangeland Viewer provides a dynamic platform for visualization and comparison of multi-temporal geospatial data of shrub and grassland ecosystems in the Western U.S. and supports custom data subsetting and downloads. It plots yearly zonal means by component across various boundary types (pastures, watersheds, etc.). Users can look at trends in vegetation change over time. Vegetation is divided into shrub, sagebrush, bare ground, herbaceous, annual herbaceous, and litter.

The Arizona State Land Department Parcel Viewer is a tool that allows users to see land ownership type across the state of Arizona. It contains data layers for land ownership type, trust parcels, mineral, oil, and gas parcels, and more. users can click on any point for additional details such as ownership type, leesee names, parcel sizes, etc.

DroughtView is a tool that allows users to compare vegetation and climate data for any region of interest in the USA, northern Mexico and southern Canada. DroughtView allows users to monitor and prepare for drought by viewing a variety of vegetation indices that are related to factors including growth, density, and type. Users can compare the difference in vegetation greeness between different time periods at a pasture scale (200-500m). Users can simultaneously look at climate data including drought severity and amount of precipitation, as well as fire boundaries, rangeland productivity (lbs/ac), and land ownership boundaries. 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 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