Land Cover
Information on Idaho's Land Cover layer including methods, layer codes, accuracy, and maps.
Land Stewardship
Information on Idaho land ownership and management with detailed methods, maps, and results.
Vertebrate Modeling
All information on Idaho's vertebrate species gathered and developed for ID-GAP can be accessed online through the new Idaho Vertebrate Modeling Database (IDVMD).
Final Report
View or download an Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) version of the ID-GAP final report.
Idaho Maps
View maps produced as part of the Idaho Gap Analysis project.
Publications
A listing of GAP-related publications.
Idaho Gap Analysis Data Downloads

Current ID-GAP data layers:

Data Layer Metadata Download Format File Size
Idaho Current Land Cover

id_g2veg.zip ESRI Grid 40.2mb
Idaho Canopy Cover

id_can.zip ESRI Grid 14.5mb
Idaho Stewardship N/A ESRI Coverage

Idaho Protection Status       

                  *contact IDFG Conservation Data Center for the current Managed Areas Database

id_protstatg.zip ESRI Grid 2.83mb
Idaho EMAP Hexagons

id_hexagon.e00.Z ESRI Coverage 216kb
Vertebrate Species Richness by Hexagon rich_allspp.zip ESRI Grid
Bird Richness by Hexagon rich_birds.zip ESRI Grid 2.2mb
Mammal Richness by Hexagon  rich_mammals.zip ESRI Grid 2.1mb
Amphibian Richness by Hexagon rich_amphibians.zip ESRI Grid 2.0mb
Reptile Richness by Hexagon rich_reptiles.zip ESRI Grid 2.0mb
Bird Hyperdistribution N/A ESRI Grid
Mammal Hyperdistribution N/A ESRI Grid
Amphibian Hyperdistribution N/A ESRI Grid
Reptile Hyperdistribution N/A ESRI Grid

To access individual  ID-GAP vertebrate-habitat models, please make a selection below:

Other LDL Data Layers:

Data Layer Metadata Download Format File Size
Idaho Land Cover, 1993 (outdated)

id_g1veg.e00.Z ESRI Coverage 2.5mb
Idaho Vertebrate Models, 1993 (outdated)

id_verts.e00.Z ESRI Coverage 21.37mb
Western Land Cover, 1997 westveg.zip ESRI Grid 1.3mb

Disclaimer: Please use these datasets and/or programs at your own risk! Like they say, you get what you pay for. Some files may NOT be available even though they may be listed on this page.

Special Requirements: A working knowledge of dealing with various (compressed) file formats is required in addition to a knowledge of the ARC/INFO software itself in order to make use of the datasets available at this location. And last but not the least - this thing called disk (storage) space. Some of the export files may expand to 60 megs!

Most datasets are in Idaho Transverse Mercator projection. See projection.txt for the necessary parameters. For more information on Idaho Transverse Mercator, please visit Idaho Department of Water Resources discussion.

The current version of WinZip will uncompress both the .zip and .Z files from this page. You can use either ArcInfo, ArcToolbox or the import utility of ArcView to import the .e00 files into usable coverages. If you do not have any of these applications, you can download a data translator from GeoCommunity's software page.

If you are in need of more data layers for Idaho, please visit INSIDE Idaho.


For more information on 
Idaho Gap Analysis, contact:
Leona Svancara
leonab@uidaho.edu
Idaho Fish and Wildlife Co-op Unit
University of Idaho
Moscow, ID 83844-4412