Template for Assessing Climate Change Impacts and Management Options (TACCIMO)

The Template for Assessing Climate Change Impacts and Management Options (TACCIMO) is a web-based assessment and reporting tool designed to integrate the most current climate change science with forest planning to meet the needs of a variety of users. A collaborative effort between the EFETAC researchers and USDA Forest Service Southern Region planners and resource managers, TACCIMO fits within the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) process and can be used in land management plan revision, environmental assessments, environmental impact statements, and reasonable alternatives. 


Comparative Risk Assessment Framework and Tools (CRAFT)

EFETAC and partners from the University of North Carolina Asheville's National Environmental Modeling and Analysis Center have designed a planning framework called Comparative Risk Assessment Framework and Tools (CRAFT), a user-friendly, Web-based support system that helps natural resource managers address uncertainties inherent in land management decisions. CRAFT offers a structured, simplified approach to determine objectives and calculates risks and tradeoffs associated with different management scenarios.


Landcover Maps

View details about landcover across the continental U.S. or even just in your neighborhood! Kurt Riitters, landscape ecologist with EFETAC’s Forest Health Monitoring team, has processed data from the 2001 National Landcover Database to create interactive Google Earth maps showing forest spatial patterns, forest density, and mixtures of land use. The maps are visualization tools that can be used to analyze and assess land use change and forest fragmentation.


Forest Threat Summary Viewer

The Forest Threat Summary Viewer provides images, distribution maps, web links, extension and state contact information, and brief and detailed descriptions about specific forest threats in the eastern United States. The viewer is a user-friendly, Web-based tool searchable by forest threat (e.g., hemlock woolly adelgid) or by State. Threats are categorized by today’s familiar forest concerns, including invasive plants, insects and diseases, loss of open space, climate change, and wildland fire. This initial version of the multi-phased tool will be continually updated with environmental threats as well as additional search features.


Southern Pine Beetle Hazard Maps 

As part of the Forest Service's SPB Prevention and Restoration Program administered by Forest Health Protection, SPB hazard maps were developed by the Forest Health Technology Enterprise Team (FHTET) to identify areas with potential for experiencing significant SPB activity. The regional SPB hazard map, which is a compilation of eight models run across 15 broad ecological zones, includes the Southern Region (Region 8) of the Forest Service, five mid-Atlantic states, and the District of Columbia.