The Carbon Reduction Potential Evaluation Tool, or CaRPE Tool™, is a web-based interactive tool that allows users to quickly visualize and quantify greenhouse gas, or GHG, emission reductions resulting from the implementation of a suite of cropland and grazing land conservation management practices.​ Source: American Farmland Trust

This guide provides outcomes quantification information that could be useful to managers of projects funded by NRCS, the USEPA, state and local programs, and corporations with supply chain sustainability goals. The guide features seven water quality tools, three climate tools, one social tool, and three economic tools that can be used without requiring project managers […]

This toolkit is a step-by-step guide for conservation professionals, landowners, and farmers to learn how to restore oxbow wetlands. Source: The Nature Conservancy

The Heifer Grazing Compass is an Excel-based planning tool for anyone considering raising heifers on pasture. The tool is designed to help users predict and understand the cash flow and long-term financial outcomes associated with raising heifers on pasture. It can be used to help dairy farmers assess their options for raising heifers, as well […]

The Agricultural Conservation Planning Framework (ACPF) is a free ArcGIS toolbox that leverages high-resolution geo-spatial data to support the development of strategic watershed plans. Intermediate to advanced GIS specialists can use it to identify site-specific opportunities for conservation practice implementation, while conservation planners can use results to develop watershed plans and collaborate with producers at […]

Social indicators provide consistent measures of social change within a watershed and can be used by managers at local, state, and federal levels to estimate the impacts of their efforts and resources. This handbook provides a step-by-step for using social indicators to help you plan, implement and evaluate nonpoint source management projects. Source: Great Lakes […]

This practitioner’s guide was developed for groups and individuals working towards the common goal of improving the health of their watershed. These groups and individuals include private citizens, nonprofit groups, private industry, federal, state, or local agency staff and many more! Source: Purdue University, USDA NRCS, and Conservation Technology Information Center (CTIC)

This publication provides best management recommendations for farmers and landowners getting started with conservation and water quality practices by helping select and incorporate in-field and edge-of-field conservation practices most appropriate to the decision maker’s land and preferences. Source: Iowa State University Extension and Outreach

These modules provide a strong foundation for watershed coordinators and other water quality professionals in Kentucky to better understand and navigate the wide range of challenges and opportunities they will inevitably confront in their daily efforts to improve water quality. Source: Kentucky Water Resources Research Institute

A multimedia storing house for conservation photos, graphics, informational videos, factsheets, PowerPoints, and other resources. All materials can be downloaded and circulated free of charge. Source: Soil and Water Conservation Society

How’s My Waterway  was designed to provide the general public with information about the condition of their local waters based on data that states, federal, tribal, local agencies, and others have provided to EPA. Water quality information is displayed on 3 scales: community, state, and national. Source: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

This guide brings together information, tips, and tools to deliver effective, engaging online (and hybrid) education for farm and ranch women on topics related to farm viability, resilience, and conservation. Source: American Farmland Trust and University of Vermont Extension