Focal Areas - The Idaho CWCS
Action Plan and Focal Areas guide implemention of CWCS and help prioritize specific conservation actions at a local scale.
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Idaho Comprehensive Wildlife Conservation Strategy
The purpose of this Web page is to make the Idaho Comprehensive Wildlife Conservation Strategy (CWCS) available to all interested parties. The Strategy was submitted to the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service for review on September 30, 2005 and was accepted by the Service in February 2006.
We will continue to revise the CWCS as new information becomes available and will post updates on this Web page when we have made substantive changes. If you would like to receive notification of these changes, you may sign up for Fish and Game email updates.
Individual components of the Strategy may be viewed by clicking on the appropriate link in the outline below.
Title Page (PDF Format, 31 KB)
Recommended Citation (PDF Format, 12 KB)
Foreword by J. Michael Scott (PDF Format, 17 KB)
Executive Summary (PDF Format, 24 KB)
Acknowledgments (PDF Format, 26 KB)
Introduction and Purpose (PDF Format, 237 KB)
Approach and Methods (PDF Format, 383 KB)
State Overview (PDF format, 20 MB)
Ecological Section Conservation Priorities
Okanogan Highlands (PDF Format, 2.7 MB)
Flathead Valley (PDF Format, 3 MB)
Bitterroot Mountains (PDF Format, 3.2 MB)
Blue Mountains (PDF Format, 3 MB)
Idaho Batholith (PDF Format, 3.8 MB)
Challis Volcanics (PDF Format, 3.4 MB)
Beaverhead Mountains (PDF Format, 3.1 KB)
Palouse Prairie (PDF Format, 3.3 MB)
Owyhee Uplands (PDF Format, 4.3 MB)
Snake River Basalts (PDF Format, 3.4 MB)
Northwestern Basin and Range (PDF Format, 3 MB)
Overthrust Mountains (PDF Format, 2.8 MB)
Yellowstone Highlands (PDF Format, 2.1 MB)
Bear Lake (PDF Format, 2.7 MB)
Monitoring and Adaptive Management (PDF Format, 251 KB)
Strategy Review and Revision (PDF format, 204 KB)
Glossary (PDF format, 463 KB)
Literature Cited (PDF Format, 511 KB)
Appendix A: Common and Scientific Names for Fish and Wildlife Species Found in Idaho (PDF format, 142 KB)
Appendix B: Idaho Species of Greatest Conservation Need (PDF Format, 75 KB)
Appendix C: NatureServe Conservation Status Assessment Criteria (PDF format, 92 KB)
Appendix D: Heritage Conservation Status for Species: A Possible Rule-and Point-based Process for Status Assignment (Based on the 17 November 2001 Draft by L. Master and T. Regan, NatureServe) (PDF format, 73 KB)
Appendix E: Description of Ecological Systems of Idaho (PDF format, 69 KB)
Appendix F: Species Accounts and Distribution Maps for Idaho Species of Greatest Conservation Need
Appendix G: Common and Scientific Names of Plant Species that Appear in the Text (PDF format, 26KB)
Appendix H: Idaho Important Bird Areas (IBA) Program (PDF Format, 1.8 MB)
If you are unable to download these files, please contact Rita Dixon at rdixon@idfg.idaho.gov for an electronic copy of the Strategy on CD.
