U.S. Climate Resilience Toolkit

Identifying High-Priority Conservation Lands to Enhance Flood Mitigation. Community groups are working to establish a connected ring of conservation land around St. Louis, Missouri. They're using an i ...

Building Smart in the Floodplain. The city of Fort Collins, Colorado, found a win-win solution to problems it faced with 100 acres of abandoned property. The city now enjoys new green space, improved ...

Students Design Low-Impact Landscape to Reduce Stormwater Runoff. High school students in Kentucky became proficient in using the EPA's Stormwater Calculator. When their county planned a new library, ...

Climate Outlooks Help Water Supply Planning. When water utility personnel recognized their groundwater withdrawals were damaging ecosystems in the Tampa Bay area, they found new ways to reduce their d ...

Developing and Using an Index to Guide Water Supply Decisions. It's not easy to keep faucets flowing year-round in southwest Florida. To make sure their customers can get ample clean water at a good p ...

Partnerships Promote Healthy Forests and Clean Water. Two major fires and subsequent flooding events wreaked havoc on a critical watershed and reservoir that supplies Denver with water. Now, a public- ...

Preparing for Sea Level Rise in Estuaries Along the Oregon Coast. For many decades, farmers built low walls or dikes across coastal wetlands in Oregon to extend their farmland. Now, efforts to restore ...

Setting Conservation Priorities for Preserving Wildlife Habitat. At South Carolina's Waccamaw National Wildlife Refuge, rising seas are threatening the habitats of wetland species. A team modeled how ...

Restoring Natural Dunes to Enhance Coastal Protection. When Hurricane Sandy hit New Jersey, homes and businesses along developed portions of the shore sustained substantial damage. Just down the beach ...

Using a Sea Level Rise Model to Identify and Prioritize Wetlands for Conservation Acquisition. Staff at the Maryland Department of Natural Resources used the Sea Level Affecting Marshes Model (SLAMM) ...