For scientists, planners, and restoration teams.
Mesic Analysis Platform
A platform for identifying, monitoring, and prioritizing mesic resources, including wet meadows, springs, seeps, and riparian corridors, across the sagebrush biome, helping teams focus restoration where it will have the greatest impact.
Our Strategic Approach
The Right Practice in the Right Place at the Right Time
Working Lands for Wildlife takes a strategic approach to addressing top-level threats facing the sagebrush and Great Plains grassland biomes. This means we couple science with on-the-ground conditions to put the right practice in the right place at the right time, ensuring conservation resources produce lasting results in the places that need them the most. Learn more about our strategic approach to conservation here.
How it works
See What Matters, Act Where It Counts
Turn decades of satellite data into clear, actionable insight. From regional prioritization to on-the-ground restoration.
Identify where restoration will have the greatest impact across the landscape. Rank subwatersheds by mesic potential and evaluate 40-year persistence trends to target high-leverage opportunities.
Prioritize Watersheds
Understand where wet meadows, springs, and riparian areas persist across the biome. Explore 40 years of mesic vegetation dynamics with interactive time series and layered land context.
Map Mesic Landscapes
Assess on-the-ground conditions within valley bottoms and stream corridors. Evaluate vegetation health, floodplain connectivity, and long-term climate and NDVI signals for each reach.
Analyze Stream Reaches
Developed alongside trusted partners
Features
Built for Decision-Making
Identify, monitor, and prioritize mesic resources across the sagebrush biome with 40 years of Landsat imagery, from HUC12 subwatersheds down to individual valley bottoms.
Watershed Prioritization
Rank HUC12 subwatersheds by mesic conservation potential using the three-tier Sagebrush Conservation Design framework, so you can pinpoint where to focus limited resources.
Mesic Persistence Mapping
Four decades of Landsat NDVI distilled into a single metric that identifies consistently productive wet meadows, seeps, and riparian corridors worthy of protection.
Multi-Scale Analysis
Move seamlessly from watershed prioritization to reach-level insight. Analyze mesic systems across regional, landscape, and local scales in a single workflow.
Time-Series Analysis
Understand how conditions change over time. Access 40+ years of NDVI, vegetation composition, and drought signals for any feature.
Integrated Data Layers
Work with the datasets that matter. Land ownership, BLM allotments, habitat designations, and Sagebrush Conservation Design layers in one place.
Reach-Level Diagnostics
Go from overview to ground conditions. Evaluate slope, floodplain connectivity, vegetation persistence, and stream characteristics for any segment.
Platform Outputs
What You Can See and Analyze
Explore 40+ years of mesic conditions through time-series data, mapped layers, and reach-level summaries.
Time-Series Data
Track how conditions change over time.
NDVI, vegetation cover, and drought signals (PDSI) from 1984–2024, available for any point, field, or reach.
Vegetation Composition
Understand what's actually on the ground.
Breakdowns of perennial and annual grasses/forbs, shrubs, and tree cover across space and time.
Mesic Persistence Mapping
See where water-driven systems hold over time.
Percent-of-years productive vegetation layers reveal stable mesic areas and degradation patterns.
Landscape Context Layers
Place data in real management context.
Land ownership, BLM allotments, habitat designations, and Sagebrush Conservation Design tiers.
Watershed & Prioritization Layers
Identify where to focus effort.
HUC12 watershed rankings, long-term persistence trends, and conservation prioritization outputs.
Reach-Level Summaries
Get detailed metrics for any valley bottom segment.
Slope, floodplain connectivity, vegetation persistence, stream type, and distance to mesic core.
Watershed Targeting
Rank subwatersheds for mesic conservation potential using the SCD framework and 40-year persistence trends.
Mesic Resources
Map herbaceous mesic persistence and explore time-series trends for any point or polygon across the biome.
Valley Bottoms
Assess individual VBET stream reaches for vegetation condition, floodplain connectivity, and restoration potential.
Stateless by design
Run Analyses Without Storing Data
All calculations are performed on demand. No saved fields, no stored geometries, no hidden state.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Find all your doubts and questions in one place. Still couldn't find what you're looking for?
Prioritize landscapes for lasting resilience.
Identify, score, and act on the highest-impact restoration opportunities across the sagebrush biome. Backed by science, built for partners.
