Planning Resources

Big Sky carbon atlas (Big Sky Carbon Sequestration Project)

Climate change (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency)

Conservation in a changing climate

Global change (U.S. Global Change Research Program)

The glossary defines terms that planners commonly use and that you will read in this Web site.

We have tried to reduce the abbreviations in this Web site. Find the few that we do use in the glossary.

Fulfilling the Promise (3 MB PDF)

Landscape conservation cooperatives

Strategic habitat conservation

Strategic habitat conservation approach

Career pathways (1 MB PDF)

Fulfilling the Promise (3 MB PDF)

Fulfilling the Promise (3 MB PDF)

Land Protection Planning for the National Wildlife Refuge System (PDF)

Landscape conservation cooperatives

National Environmental Policy Act coordination

Preplanning Guidance for Comprehensive Conservation Plans (1 MB PDF)

Strategic habitat conservation

Strategic habitat conservation approach

Writing Refuge Management Goals and Objectives (1 MB PDF)

Biological inventories of the world's protected areas (Inventory Center for the Environment)

Birds of North America (Cornell Lab of Ornithology)

Butterflies and Moths of North America

The Center for North American Herpetology

Global Invasive Species Database (Invasive Species Specialist Group)

Global Invasive Species Information Network

Integrated Taxonomic Information System

National digital library

Nonindigenous aquatic species (U.S. Geological Survey)

Breeding bird atlases in the United States and Canada (U.S. Geological Survey)

Checklist of freshwater fishes of North America (North American Native Fishes Association)

North American mammals (Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History)

PLANTS Database (Natural Resources Conservation Service)

Colorado wildlife action plan (Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies)

Kansas wildlife action plan (Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies)

Montana fish and wildlife conservation strategy (Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies)

Nebraska natural legacy project (Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies)

North Dakota comprehensive wildlife conservation strategy (Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies)

South Dakota wildlife action plan (Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies)

Utah wildlife action plan (Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies)

Wyoming wildlife action plan (Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies)

Hydrogeomorphic analysis

Use of genetically modified, glyphosate-tolerant soybeans and corn on national wildlife refuge lands in the Mountain-Prairie Region (2 MB PDF)

The Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation (GrammarBook.com)

The OWL (Online Writing Lab, Purdue University)

Plain language (PlainLanguage.gov)

Quick tips to help you write more clearly (PlainLanguage.gov)

Writing Refuge Management Goals and Objectives (1 MB PDF)