Region: National

This website contains resources and tips to help provide care for pets before, during, and after disasters. The pet disaster checklist is an excellent guide for helping prepare you and your pet for evacuation. Read More

“The key to preventing wildfires from becoming disasters is to keep them from entering and spreading into the built environment. IBHS has identified key vulnerabilities for suburban neighborhoods and communities; these insights build on findings published by the fire protection community and the best experimental and field research to date. The Suburban Wildfire Adaptation Roadmaps... Read More

This resource from the Insurance Institute for Business and Home Safety (IBHS) provides fact sheets, retrofit guides, tip sheets, graphics and educational videos for those working to reduce their wildfire risk. Specific resources for residents, business owners, and farmers and ranchers are all included. This site is also a great resource for wildfire practitioners working... Read More

This resource explains the concept of defensible space, provides clear instructions and illustrations, and contains flyers and checklists to support residents as they work to increase their wildfire resilience. Read More

This webinar from the International Association of Fire Chiefs features Jeremy Taylor and covers tips, resources, and best practices for chipping programs. Read More

“Both Natural Hazards Mitigation Plans (NHMP) and Community Wildfire Protection Plans (CWPP) benefitcommunities striving to reduce risk to natural hazards. Though CWPPs are focused on the wildfire hazard and NHMPs address multiple natural hazards, their process and content requirements are very similar. As a result, many communities have chosen to integrate. This document highlights the... Read More

The Land Conservation Assistance Network (LandCAN) has resources on conservation grant and assistance programs, a professional directors, information on carbon sequestration markets, a research article library, a toolbox for land conservation and more. Read More

“The Rocky Mountain Research Station Wildfire Risk Management Science (WRMS) Team co-developed Potential Operational Delineations (PODs) to pre-plan for fire using a risk management approach, and to give land managers a formal process for developing landscape-scale wildfire response options before fires start. PODs are spatial units or containers defined by potential control features, such as roads and ridge tops, within which... Read More

“This guidebook presents a menu of USDA Forest Service and Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) tools and programs available to implement land stewardship on public and private lands, as well as insider tips and lessons learned. It is intended to increase understanding of the options for effectivecollaborative forest management. While not exhaustive, this primer represents... Read More

“The Agricultural Conservation Easement Program (ACEP) protects the agricultural viability and related conservation values of eligible land by limiting nonagricultural uses which negatively affect agricultural uses and conservation values, protect grazing uses and related conservation values by restoring or conserving eligible grazing land, and protecting and restoring and enhancing wetlands on eligible land.” Read More