Landscape Partnership Resources Library

Eastern Hellbender Structural Habitat Augmentation Guidance

This is a technical document to provide guidance on the installation of structural habitat for adult and juvenile Eastern Hellbenders. The document details spacing, placement, and specifications for in-stream nest and cover rocks.

How EQIP Works Understanding the Environmental Quality Incentives Program & Your Responsibilities

Factsheet on EQIP

DOI Nature-based Solutions Roadmap

The purpose of the Department of the Interior Nature Based Solutions Roadmap is to provide Department of the Interior (DOI) staff with consistent and credible information about nature-based solutions, such as which strategies match certain conditions and goals, what co-benefits they are likely to provide, example projects, and additional resources for project planning, construction, and monitoring.

USDA Launches New Bobwhite Conservation Pilot and Announces General Conservation Reserve Program Signup

The opportunity we have been waiting for to stop the national decline of bobwhite quail. Using brand new science tools, WLFW will help landowners manage and connect grassland and savanna habitat in the Central and Eastern US. Together we can improve habitats, measure our progress, and reestablish this iconic rural species to our landscapes!

Technical Training Workshop-The Stream Simulation Design Approach for Providing Aquatic Organism Passage at Road-Stream Crossings

This 4.5-day workshop will present the USDA Forest Service’s stream simulation method, an ecosystem-based approach for designing and constructing a channel through a road-stream crossing structure that reestablishes physical and ecological continuity along the stream corridor.

Agenda: Designing for Aquatic Organism Passage at Road-Stream Crossings, Virgina (4 - 8 March 2024)

Course Objectives-Provide engineers, biologists, hydrologists, and other engaged disciplines the necessary skills to design road-stream crossing structures that will accommodate aquatic organism passage, provide for more natural channel function, and maximize the long-term stability of the structure. The primary design approach is stream simulation.

NRCS Workshop 1-24-24

Downloadable PDF for workshop

Macros by Tolerance

Document has macroinvertebrates sorted into groups 1, 2, and 3 based on pollution tolerance, with pictures.

Pebble Count Analyzer

Excel document to enter and analyze pebble count data to retrieve field values for the SQT.

BEHI and NBS Processing Form

Excel document for processing BEHI and NBS data collected in the field.

Large Woody Debris Index (LWDI) Manual

Methods for LWDI assessment to complete the Hellbender SQT.

Parameter Selection Guide

Print this document and keep in your clipboard for reference. This document lists with metrics should be measured for various types of WLFW projects.

Hellbender Stream Quantification Tool Spreadsheet

The HBSQT Master Document

HBSQT Field Data Input Form (excel)

Excel document that mirrors the field datasheets for data input. Gray cells in this document are calculations that will give you field values for the HBSQT Spreadsheet.

HBSQT Field Datasheet Package (pdf)

Download and print this packet to record field data for the HBSQT. You may need multiple copies of some of the pages (e.g. LWDI, BEHI)

Opportunities for Research on Carbon Sequestration in Longleaf Pine Ecosystems

As a result of the Fact Sheet on Opportunities for Research on Carbon Sequestration in Longleaf Pine Ecosystems by Kevin Robertson, Ph.D., Fire Ecology Research Scientist, Prescribed Burning has been added to the USDA Climate Smart Priorities List for FY24.

Mapping Fires Across the Southeast-Science to Solutions

The Southeast fire map (SE FireMap), funded by NRCS and managed by Working Lands for Wildlife staff, aims to develop a fire tracking map to allow for improved decision making.

Guidebook for Prescribed Burning in the Southern Region

Learn how to plan, conduct and evaluate prescribed burns with this new Guidebook designed for burners of all skill levels. This book takes you step-by-step through the prescribed burning process in addition to providing more in-depth chapters on many of the concepts.