Idaho Comprehensive Wildlife Conservation Strategy



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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 site 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
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.