Idaho Sage-Grouse Habitat and Restoration Types, 2015

2015 landscape-scale habitat data for greater sage-grouse in Idaho, developed by the Department of the Interior. The dataset includes key habitat areas and four restoration potential types, covering all of Idaho and a small area in Nevada managed by Idaho BLM. A new dataset is developed annually to update the planning map and chart landscape-level changes.

Use Cases

• General conservation planning based on key sage-grouse habitat areas.
• Assessing restoration potential based on the four defined habitat restoration types (R1, R2, R3, RB).
• Tracking landscape-level habitat changes over time based on the annual update process.
• Identifying areas removed from habitat classification (NA class) due to vegetation or terrain.

Strengths

• Intended for use at a defined scale of 1:100,000.
• Annual updates planned to chart landscape-level changes over time.
• Incorporates wildfire data and edits from the 2015 field and fire season.

Limitations

• Map extent for key habitat and restoration areas is provisional, contingent on final analyses.
• Data is for general planning; finer-scale applications require additional data or field verification.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.

Provenance

Source

Department of the Interior

Collection Method

Planning map update incorporating wildfire data and other edits per typical processes used in the past decade.

Time Range

2015

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-11 16:01:28.299552; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Idaho and a small area in Nevada managed by Idaho BLM.