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Building Community Resilience with Nature-Based Solutions

Communities FEMA’s Strategies for Success   Overview Building Community Resilience with Nature-Based Solutions is a series of guides to help community leaders use nature-based solutions (NBS) to minimize the risks…

Funding the Fox Point Beach Drive Coastal Resiliency Project

…allow a project to pass the benefit-cost analysis. The two key conditions that contributed to the Village passing their benefit-cost analysis were that (1) Beach Drive is a single access…

Introducing: Southeastern Wisconsin Regional Planning Commission

…to the Kenosha County Hazard Mitigation Plan Update: 2017-2022. Additionally, the Commission has planning guides that discuss planning and plan implementation practice, contain examples of good planning and plan implementation…

Great Lakes Water Level Dashboard

…interactive dashboard of monthly water level data for each of the Great Lakes. The Dashboard is designed for users to easily examine the fluctuation of the Great Lakes water levels…

Meetings, Webinars, & Field Trips

…on March 23,… March 29, 2022 Spring 2020 Coastal Resilience Community of Practice Meeting Meeting summary for the SE WI Coastal Resilience Community of Practice meeting held… April 7, 2020…

Southeastern Wisconsin’s Opportunities to Increase Coastal Resilience

…2 communities completed only Part 1. Community responses were used to help identify resilience opportunities in the individual communities. This blog aggregates the responses of each community to provide a…

Vegetative Best Management Practices: A Manual for Pennsylvania/Lake Erie Bluff Landowners

…Management Grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). This document is available to download for free on the Pennsylvania Sea Grant College Program website. Audience This document is…

Introducing: Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Cities Initiative

…region. Best Practices Library The Best Practices Library is a searchable database of best practices for Great Lakes issues by topic and region. For example, there are two topic categories…

City of Green Bay Green Stormwater Infrastructure Code Audit

…Phase 4: Committee Review and Codification In the final phase of this process, draft code amendments were put before committee for approval. Different codes are reviewed by different committees depending…

Creating a Coastline Management Policy for Milwaukee County

…water management practices initiated by coastal communities effectively reduced the risk of coastline impacts.   Milwaukee County Parks determined there was a need for the County to establish a set…