Wetland Inventory Projects

Wetland Conservation Strategy Reports Approximately 475 of the sites in the Conservation Site shapefile contain significant wetland or riparian habitat. The majority of these sites were identified between 1996 and 2007, when IDFG completed wetland inventories across approximately two-thirds of Idaho’s river basins. These projects involved field surveys of wetland and riparian areas to document their condition, function, and biodiversity value. Field surveys were supplemented with interpretation of aerial imagery and National Wetland Inventory maps. Wetland sites were mapped relatively broadly, but typically finer than a HUC 12 scale (i.e., they include adjacent upland buffers). Wetland sites were typically classified according to habitat diversity, biodiversity significance, condition, and landscape context or viability into these conservation priority categories: