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The Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) provides access to species occurrence data (presence and absence), analyses and investigations of species trends, drivers of change, and potential implications of future changes in biodiversity in the United States and U.S. Territories. Users can view and navigate through species occurance information in maps, tables, and photo galleries. Data is downloadable.

The Tucson Audubon Society provides several guides for landowners seeking to improve bird habitat on their land. This page links guides about improving bird habitat in three critical ecosystems: grasslands, riparian areas (rivers, streams, and desert washes) in Arizona, and riparian areas in Grand Valley, Colorado.

The Sonoran Joint Venture's Arizona Species & Habitat Accounts provide information about individual bird species pertinent to making land stewardship decisions. These accounts summarize key conservation details as well as recommended management activities to support birds. Species Accounts include both priority species for conservation, as well as birds that are good indicators of habitat health.

This tool provides a special status species list for Phase I Environmental Compliance and NEPA documents, and provides information and guideline links for incorporating wildlife conservation into project planning. This information can be used to guide preliminary decisions and assessments of proposed land and water development, management, and conservation projects. This tool also includes the functionality of the Department’s HabiMap™ to help inform landscape-scale planning, to provide initial risk assessment for early project planning, and to gain a general understanding of Arizona’s wildlife conservation potential.

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