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EDDMapS: Early Detection and Distribution 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 GIS experience. Launched in 2005 by the Center for Invasive Species and Ecosystem Health at the University of Georgia, it was originally designed as a tool for state Exotic Pest Plant Councils to develop more complete distribution data of invasive species. Since then, the program has expanded to include the entire US and Canada as well as to document certain native pest species. EDDMapS' goal is to maximize the effectiveness and accessibility of the immense numbers of invasive species and pest observations recorded each year. As of June 2021, EDDMapS has over 5.2 million records.

The National Conservation Easement Database (NCED): NCED is the first national database of conservation easement information, compiling records from land trusts and public agencies throughout the United States. This public-private partnership brings together national conservation groups, local and regional land trusts, and local, state and federal agencies around a common objective. This effort helps agencies, land trusts, and other organizations plan more strategically, identify opportunities for collaboration, advance public accountability, and raise the profile of what’s happening on-the-ground in the name of conservation.

Southeast Longleaf Ecosystem Occurrences (LEO) Geodatabase: The Southeast LEO Geodatabase is a project to develop a comprehensive map database of documented longleaf pine locations and ecological conditions across the range. Florida Natural Areas Inventory (FNAI) is working in partnership with the Longleaf Alliance to build the LEO GDB with funding from Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) via the U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities, and in close conjunction with the America's Longleaf Restoration Initiative - Longleaf Partnership Council, and other partners.

Massachusetts DER's Restoration Potential Model Tool: DER’s Restoration Potential Model (RPM) Tool displays information that can be used to evaluate the relative ecological benefit of removing any known dam in Massachusetts.

Coastal Resilience Maine: Allows users to explore barriers to aquatic connectivity — dams and road-stream crossings– and identify likely high priorities for removal or improved fish passage for different objectives as well as to run custom analyses.

Chesapeake Fish Passage Prioritization Tool: This tool evaluates and prioritizes dams and other in-stream barriers to aquatic organism passage to help inform aquatic connectivity restoration projects in the Chesapeake Bay watershed.

Freshwater Network Northeast Region: Northeast Aquatic Connectivity Project's Tool: Tool for assessing barriers to aquatic connectivity including dams and road-stream crossings.

New Hampshire Aquatic Restoration Mapper: Interactive viewer to explore stream crossing, flood hazards, and aquatic habitat data to identify restoration opportunities in New Hampshire Communities.

North Atlantic Aquatic Connectivity Collaborative-HUC12 Prioritization Tool: Helps identify subwatersheds that may have priority for field survey of crossing assessments.

NRCS Targeted Monarch Butterfly Effort: NRCS map of the targeted Monarch Butterfly effort: click to expand

North American Marine Protected Areas Network (NAMPAN) Story Maps: Promoting Human and Ecological Connectivity Through MPAs

Brook Trout Thermal Habitat Forecasts Catoctin Mountain Park, Maryland & Shenandoah Valley, Virginia: Users can zoom-in to an area of interest and then compare current conditions against various future scenarios (3 levels of air temperature change x 3 levels of GW sensitivity to air temperature change). The interpretation is simple: red sites are too warm (MWAT > 23 C) and blue sites have suitable temperatures.

Riparian Restoration Decision Support Tool: An innovative riparian planting and restoration decision support tool, this user-friendly tool allows managers and decision-makers to rapidly identify and prioritize areas along the banks of rivers, streams, and lakes for restoration, making these ecosystems more resilient to disturbance and future changes in climate.

North Atlantic Aquatic Connectivity Collaborative: The North Atlantic Aquatic Connectivity Collaborative (NAACC) is a network of individuals from universities, conservation organizations, and state and federal natural resource and transportation departments focused on improving aquatic connectivity across a thirteen- state region, from Maine to West Virginia.

Fish Habitat Decision Support Tool: This tool was created to provide resource managers and the general public with access to the extensive spatial data and results produced from multiple fish habitat assessments. Three main analytical tools (visualization, ranking, and futuring) are combined with intuitive base-maps and mapping features to allow users to explore the details of the assessments and perform subsequent analyses.

Brook Trout Conservation Portfolio and Range-wide Assessment: Interactive webmap and visualization tools.

Trout Unlimited Brook Trout Atlas: The following interactive atlases provide a means to explore mapped data related to brook trout populations, habitats, and threats in local watersheds and across their eastern range.

National Aquatic Barrier Inventory & Prioritization Tool: Improve aquatic connectivity by prioritizing aquatic barriers for removal using the best available data.

BirdLocale: USDA’s Natural Resource Conservation Service has partnered with the University of Georgia, Quail Forever, and state agencies to conduct an extensive study across 25 states of the USA to assess the impacts of management practices on the northern bobwhite population. As part of this project, biologists will be collecting field data like bobwhite counts, and percentage cover of different cover types (grass, shrub, forb, etc.). Apart from these human-collected data, these biologists will also be using Acoustic Recording Units (ARUs) to collect data on bird calls.

BirdLocale: USDA’s Natural Resource Conservation Service has partnered with the University of Georgia, Quail Forever, and state agencies to conduct an extensive study across 25 states of the USA to assess the impacts of management practices on the northern bobwhite population. As part of this project, biologists will be collecting field data like bobwhite counts, and percentage cover of different cover types (grass, shrub, forb, etc.). Apart from these human-collected data, these biologists will also be using Acoustic Recording Units (ARUs) to collect data on bird calls.