RIAD’s ILPT, hosted on the RIAD Outcomes SharePoint site, allows NRCS staff to access a suite of outcomes-based data, reports, dashboards, and web applications through one centralized landing page. NRCS staff may access the ILPT here. Staff are encouraged to bookmark this webpage for easy access in the future.

Specific resources within the ILPT are detailed below, with introductory landing pages including direct access and additional details on available data and update cadences provided for each resource. While some individual resources are public-facing, the ILPT as a whole is available for official NRCS staff use only and may be accessed through e-authentication.

·     State Landscape Planning Package Web Application: This new web application, developed as a direct result of State feedback, is an interactive dashboard that enables users to filter data and identify specific areas for prioritized cropland conservation at the hydrologic unit code (HUC)-12 watershed scale. Users may independently generate custom State-level maps and conservation prioritizations, expanding on the Excel database and static maps already made available through the State Landscape Planning Package Report.

·     State Landscape Planning Package: This package provides State-specific content to support landscape and watershed-scale planning on cultivated croplands. Unique planning packages are provided for each State and include both an Excel database and static maps that convey information, such as soil vulnerability to sediment and nutrient loss, the extent of NRCS-supported conservation practices present on the landscape, and the extent to which conservation practices have been prioritized to fields that are most vulnerable to nutrient loss. Data are provided on vulnerable soils and treatment priorities at the HUC-12 scale.

·     State Data Insight Report: This report provides State-specific analyses to support States in reporting conservation accomplishments, analyzing conservation gaps and opportunities for future conservation investments, and leveraging additional planning resources and tools available through RIAD.

·     NRCS Climate/Equity/Urban Priority Data Layers Project: The Priority Data Layers Project provides datasets and tools on each State’s past treatment and future opportunities for mitigating climate change, advancing equity in program delivery, and promoting conservation in urban and peri-urban areas. The goal of the project is to provide data and tools to support State decision-making for future conservation investments in the priority topic areas. The Priority Data Layers Project includes Priority Data Layers Web Applications for working land and easement programs, geospatial databases, Excel workbooks, maps, and documentations.

·     NRCS County Drought Dashboard: This interactive dashboard provides drought severity data and associated visualizations on the national, State, and county levels leveraging data from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) Drought Monitor. The dashboard is accessible to all FPAC users with a Tableau license.

·     Conservation Effects Assessment Project Conservation Benefits Identifier (CCBI) Field-Level Web Application: This interactive web application provides a geospatial layer that assesses where key conservation practices have been applied relative to inherent soil vulnerabilities for croplands and identifies land units for which additional treatment is expected to provide higher relative benefits. NRCS staff may use this dashboard to quickly identify cropland fields most vulnerable to losses of sediment, crop nutrients, and/or pathogens. Such screening helps prioritize future conservation efforts.

·     Conservation Effects Assessment Project (CEAP) Water Quality Benefits Estimator Tool: This interactive web application integrates NRCS and Farm Service Agency databases with field-level and watershed-scale models to estimate water quality outcomes on cultivated cropland acres. NRCS staff may use this tool to assess NRCS-specific conservation effects for a given location or locations related to nitrogen, phosphorus, sediment, and wind erosion.

·     Resources Conservation Act (RCA) Data Viewer: The RCA Data Viewer allows users to graph, map, and download customized datasets based on practices applied through NRCS programs and to survey data on land use, soil erosion, and prime farmland from the National Resources Inventory. This is a public-facing resource.

·     Easement Program Open Data Dashboard: This interactive dashboard provides data for NRCS’ past and current easement programs. Data are filterable by various categories, including easement count and acres, fiscal year, easement program, and geographic location. This is a public-facing resource.

·     Financial Assistance Program Open Data Dashboard: This interactive dashboard provides data for NRCS’ working land financial assistance programs. Data are available across fiscal year at national, State, county, congressional district, and HUC scales and are filterable by programs, practice types, contract status, and across various producer types. This is a public-facing resource.