Montana's fishing district boundaries.

Montana Fishing Districts Vector Tile Layer for display in web mapping applications. Features are symbolized and labeled

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The Montana Wetland and Riparian Framework represents the extent, type, and approximate location of wetlands, riparian areas, and deepwater habitats in Montana. These data delineate the areal extent of wetlands and deepwater habitats as defined by Cowardin et al. (1979) and riparian areas as defined by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (2009). The Montana Wetland and Riparian Framework consists of features that were manually digitized at a scale of 1:4,500 or 1:5,000 from orthorectified digital color-infrared aerial imagery collected during the summers of 2005, 2006, 2009, 2011, and 2013 by the National Agricultural Imagery Program (NAIP). These data are intended for use in publications at a scale of 1:12,000 or smaller. This layer consists of two feature datasets: NHP_Layers and NHP_quadStatus.The NHP_Layers feature dataset contains the digital wetland and riparian mapping and consists of the feature class finalprovWetRip. This feature class consists of data that have undergone three rounds of internal quality assurance/quality control procedures by the MTNHP. For data where the Status field is Final, the data have been sent to and approved by the Regional Coordinator of the National Wetlands Inventory of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. For data where the Status field is Provisional, the data have undergone three rounds of internal quality assurance/quality control procedures by the MTNHP but have not been sent to the Regional Coordinator of the National Wetlands Inventory of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The quadStatus feature dataset contains information about the mapping status of each topographic quad and consists of five feature classes: activeProjectList, finalStatus, historicNWI, noMapping, and provStatus. The activeProjectList feature class consists of quads that are currently being mapped by the MTNHP; the finalStatus feature class consists of quads with mapping that has been approved by the Regional Coordinator of the NWI; the historic NWI feature class consists of quads that were mapped by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service using 1980s-era imagery, this includes quads with both digital and non-digital mapping; the noMapping feature class consists of quads for which no mapping exists and no mapping is currently planned; and the provStatus feature class consists of quads with provisional wetland mapping.

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These tools were created by Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks (FWP) with extensive input from the Gallatin County Planning Department as part of the Gallatin County Growth Policy update in 2020. The map and associated matrix do not prescribe where development should or should not occur but instead provide general guidance on how to consider fish and wildlife resources on privately-owned lands within the jurisdiction of Gallatin County. This map is based on the best available data and professional knowledge of FWP biologists at the time the map was created. Because this guidance is general and the landscape is rapidly changing, land use planners, developers, and conservation professionals should continue to consult with FWP staff and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on plans and projects. In general, the wildlife value boundaries drawn on the map are located on identifiable landmarks for ease and logistics and the user should recognize that these boundaries are approximate, and that wildlife habitats and use do not necessarily change on that line. All water bodies across the county are considered core wildlife habitat but due to scale, not all are shown on this map. Wildlife resource matrix: https://fwp.mt.gov/binaries/content/assets/fwp/gisresources/docs/gallatincountyplanningmaps/wildlifematrix.pdf . PDF maps: https://fwp.mt.gov/binaries/content/assets/fwp/gisresources/docs/gallatincountyplanningmaps/gallatincounty_fwp_wildliferesourcevalue_north_final_ud20210505.pdf , https://fwp.mt.gov/binaries/content/assets/fwp/gisresources/docs/gallatincountyplanningmaps/gallatincounty_fwp_wildliferesourcevalue_south_final_ud20210505.pdfModel Methods:1. Extracts layer areas only within the study area. 2. Adds an empty field for the wildlife score. 3. Calculates a score in the wildlife score field from 1 (lowest) to 3 (highest) for each attribute as described in the attribute selection column.

These data include 2015 - 2018 eDNA field sample points indicating lab results for presence or absence of bull trout. Sample sites are spaced at a 1 kilometer interval throughout the historical range of bull trout. eDNA stream samples are collected and species presence/absence is determined by analyses at the National Genomics Center. Results are recorded in the feature attribute table of the eDNA sample site shapefile. One point feature in the shapefile was generated for each 1 kilometer sample point in the bull trout eDNA feature class. Where multiple samples were collected at a single eDNA sample site, replicate point features will occur at a single location in the shapefile. The bull trout is an ESA-listed species with a historical range that encompasses many waters across the Northwest. Though once abundant, bull trout have declined in many locations and are at risk from a changing climate, nonnative species, and habitat degradation. Informed conservation planning relies on sound and precise information about the distribution of bull trout in thousands of streams, but gathering this information is a daunting and expensive task. To overcome this problem, we coupled 1) predictions from the range-wide, spatially precise Climate Shield model on the location of natal habitats of bull trout with 2) a sampling template for every 8-digit hydrologic unit in the historical range of bull trout, based on the probability of detecting bull trout presence using environmental DNA (eDNA) sampling (McKelvey et al. 2016). The template consists of a master set of geospatially referenced sampling locations at 1-kilometer intervals within each cold-water habitat. We also identified sampling locations at this same interval based on the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's (USFWS) designation of critical spawning and rearing habitat. Based on field tests of eDNA detection probabilities conducted by the National Genomics Center for Wildlife and Fish Conservation, this sampling approach will reliably determine the presence of populations of bull trout, as well as provide insights on non-spawning habitats used by adult and subadult fish. The completed bull trout eDNA survey results are available through an interactive ArcGIS Online Map. The map provides the ability to zoom in and look at an area of interest, as well as to create queries or select an area to download points as a shapefile.This record was taken from the USDA Enterprise Data Inventory that feeds into the https://data.gov catalog. Data for this record includes the following resources: ISO-19139 metadata ArcGIS Hub Dataset ArcGIS GeoService For complete information, please visit https://data.gov.

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In 1996, the US Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS), Region 6 Habitat and Population Evaluation Team, initiated a pilot project to evaluate the potential to use Thematic Mapper satellite imagery to map upland waterfowl nesting cover in the North and South Dakota and northeast Montana portion of the Prairie Pothole Region. The results of the pilot project suggested that we could expect more than 80 percent overall classification accuracy was likely and the project was expanded to the area of interest. Ducks Unlimited's Great Plains Regional Office joined the project in late 1996 and co-funded the remainder of the project. Imagery dates ranged from 1992-96 and the process resulted in the landcover classification of nearly 78 million acres into 16 wetland and upland classes.

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USFWS Although these data have been processed successfully on a computer system at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, no warranty expressed or implied is made regarding the accuracy or utility of the data on any other system or for general or scientific purposes, nor shall the act of distribution constitute any such warranty. This disclaimer applies both to individual use of the data and aggregate use with other data. It is strongly recommended that these data are directly acquired from the US Fish and Wildlife Service, and not indirectly through other sources which may have changed the data in some way. It is also strongly recommended that careful attention be paid to the contents of the metadata file associated with these data. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service shall not be held liable for improper use of the data described and or contained herein. Not to be used for navigation, for informational purposes only. See full disclaimer for more information.

In 1996, the US Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS), Region 6 Habitat and Population Evaluation Team, initiated a pilot project to evaluate the potential to use Thematic Mapper satellite imagery to map upland waterfowl nesting cover in the North and South Dakota and northeast Montana portion of the Prairie Pothole Region. The results of the pilot project suggested that we could expect more than 80 percent overall classification accuracy was likely and the project was expanded to the area of interest. Ducks Unlimited's Great Plains Regional Office joined the project in late 1996 and co-funded the remainder of the project. Imagery dates ranged from 1992-96 and the process resulted in the landcover classification of nearly 78 million acres into 16 wetland and upland classes.

Constraints:
USFWS Although these data have been processed successfully on a computer system at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, no warranty expressed or implied is made regarding the accuracy or utility of the data on any other system or for general or scientific purposes, nor shall the act of distribution constitute any such warranty. This disclaimer applies both to individual use of the data and aggregate use with other data. It is strongly recommended that these data are directly acquired from the US Fish and Wildlife Service, and not indirectly through other sources which may have changed the data in some way. It is also strongly recommended that careful attention be paid to the contents of the metadata file associated with these data. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service shall not be held liable for improper use of the data described and or contained herein. Not to be used for navigation, for informational purposes only. See full disclaimer for more information.

The USGS Protected Areas Database of the United States (PAD-US) is the nation's inventory of protected areas, including public open space and voluntarily provided, private protected areas, identified as an A-16 National Geospatial Data Asset in the Cadastral Theme (http://www.fgdc.gov/ngda-reports/NGDA_Datasets.html). PAD-US is an ongoing project with several published versions of a spatial database of areas dedicated to the preservation of biological diversity, and other natural, recreational or cultural uses, managed for these purposes through legal or other effective means. The geodatabase maps and describes public open space and other protected areas. Most areas are public lands owned in fee; however, long-term easements, leases, and agreements or administrative designations documented in agency management plans may be included. The PAD-US database strives to be a complete “best available” inventory of protected areas (lands and waters) including data provided by managing agencies and organizations. The dataset is built in collaboration with several partners and data providers (http://gapanalysis.usgs.gov/padus/stewards/). See Supplemental Information Section of this metadata record for more information on partnerships and links to major partner organizations. As this dataset is a compilation of many data sets; data completeness, accuracy, and scale may vary. Federal and state data are generally complete, while local government and private protected area coverage is about 50% complete, and depends on data management capacity in the state. For completeness estimates by state: http://www.protectedlands.net/partners. As the federal and state data are reasonably complete; focus is shifting to completing the inventory of local gov and voluntarily provided, private protected areas. The PAD-US geodatabase contains over twenty-five attributes and four feature classes to support data management, queries, web mapping services and analyses: Marine Protected Areas (MPA), Fee, Easements and Combined. The data contained in the MPA Feature class are provided directly by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Marine Protected Areas Center (MPA, http://marineprotectedareas.noaa.gov ) tracking the National Marine Protected Areas System. The Easements feature class contains data provided directly from the National Conservation Easement Database (NCED, http://conservationeasement.us ) The MPA and Easement feature classes contain some attributes unique to the sole source databases tracking them (e.g. Easement Holder Name from NCED, Protection Level from NOAA MPA Inventory). The "Combined" feature class integrates all fee, easement and MPA features as the best available national inventory of protected areas in the standard PAD-US framework. In addition to geographic boundaries, PAD-US describes the protection mechanism category (e.g. fee, easement, designation, other), owner and managing agency, designation type, unit name, area, public access and state name in a suite of standardized fields. An informative set of references (i.e. Aggregator Source, GIS Source, GIS Source Date) and "local" or source data fields provide a transparent link between standardized PAD-US fields and information from authoritative data sources. The areas in PAD-US are also assigned conservation measures that assess management intent to permanently protect biological diversity: the nationally relevant "GAP Status Code" and global "IUCN Category" standard. A wealth of attributes facilitates a wide variety of data analyses and creates a context for data to be used at local, regional, state, national and international scales. More information about specific updates and changes to this PAD-US version can be found in the Data Quality Information section of this metadata record as well as on the PAD-US website, http://gapanalysis.usgs.gov/padus/data/history/.) Due to the completeness and complexity of these data, it is highly recommended to review the Supplemental Information Section of the metadata record as well as the Data Use Constraints, to better understand data partnerships as well as see tips and ideas of appropriate uses of the data and how to parse out the data that you are looking for. For more information regarding the PAD-US dataset please visit, http://gapanalysis.usgs.gov/padus/. To find more data resources as well as view example analysis performed using PAD-US data visit, http://gapanalysis.usgs.gov/padus/resources/. The PAD-US dataset and data standard are compiled and maintained by the USGS Gap Analysis Program, http://gapanalysis.usgs.gov/ . For more information about data standards and how the data are aggregated please review the “Standards and Methods Manual for PAD-US,” http://gapanalysis.usgs.gov/padus/data/standards/ .

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Wolf harvest numbers and quota numbers by FWP's trapping districts and wolf management unit (WMU) for the current hunting/trapping season in Montana. For display in the Montana Wolf Harvest Dashboard: Montana Wolf Harvest Dashboard (arcgis.com). Data are from the Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks' mandatory reporting records provided by hunters and trappers, wolf regulations and FWP Commission. Harvest numbers are updated multiple times per day during the hunting/trapping season. This data is also displayed on the wolf harvest status web page: https://myfwp.mt.gov/fwpPub/speciesHuntingGuide?wmrSpeciesCd=GW. More information about wolf hunting and trapping in Montana is available at: https://fwp.mt.gov/hunt/regulations/wolf

View Block Management Areas in the New FWP Hunt Planner. URL link to the New FWP Hunt Planner. Mobile-friendly web map for accessing the most current hunting and hunting access information from Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks.

This map service supports the https://www.flatheadlakers.org/ portions of the River Conditions Tool (https://uppermissouriheadwaters.org/UMHW_RiverConditions/index.html). Data was provided by the https://www.flatheadlakers.org/ for both the 1964 Flood and the Depth to Water table of the Flathead River. Leveraging the investment of the USFWS Region 6 Science Applications’ funded project Building Large Scale Drought Resiliency in the Missouri Headwaters Basin, the tool further supports stakeholders in drought management planning by improving access to US Geological Survey, Montana Fish Wildlife and Parks, and Montana Dept. of Natural Resources Conservation Services (DNRC) river condition data. In collaboration with MT DNRC, this data drives functionality similar to the River Conditions tool on the Big Hole River Conditions web page for eight basins within the Missouri Headwaters Basin. The tool is to be embedded on websites for easy access to real-time stream conditions such as temperature and flow, and river status (e.g., restrictions, closures).

This layer depicts project points for public and private lands where both Open Fields Program enrolled lands and Upland Game Bird Enhancement Program (UGBEP) project contracts exist. Projects that occur on lands enrolled in the Block Management Area Program are displayed as well as those occurring on State and Federal lands. Permission and contact information is provided where applicable. Open Fields is a cooperative effort involving Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks, Private Landowners, and the US Department of Agriculture Farm Service Agency. Open Fields targets Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) and other highly productive game bird habitats on private lands that allow walk-in access for fall game bird hunting. Boundaries of enrolled lands will be clearly posted to identify the area open to walk in game bird hunting.

These data were compiled by the StreamNet partnership and were last updated on January 31, 2019. Distribution represents current presence and habitat use by species and run timing (for anadromous fish) and is based on a combination of field data and the best professional judgement of local fish biologists, in the Pacific Northwest Region (Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Montana). These data were collected by biologists at the state fish & wildlife agencies of Washington (WDFW), Oregon (ODFW), Idaho (IDFG) and Montana (MFWP). Data were then compiled by StreamNet staff into spatial datasets at the agency level. These data were then submitted to the StreamNet regional staff at Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commision (PSMFC) where the regionally consistent distribution feature class is maintained and published. These and related spatial datasets are available for download along with metadata from http://www.streamnet.org/data/interactive-maps-and-gis-data/Note: The referenced web map service includes multiple map layers. In addition to this top level item, some of the individual map feature layers are available and described as separate items within the StreamNet group on ArcGIS Online.

This map service supports the River Conditions Tool (https://uppermissouriheadwaters.org/UMHW_RiverConditions/index.html). Data creation involved input from watershed coordinators from the Upper Missouri Headwaters Basin and Upper Yellowstone watersheds, then complication from USFWS R6 Science Applications and Montana State University. Leveraging the investment of the USFWS Region 6 Science Applications’ funded project Building Large Scale Drought Resiliency in the Missouri Headwaters Basin, the tool further supports stakeholders in drought management planning by improving access to US Geological Survey, Montana Fish Wildlife and Parks, and Montana Dept. of Natural Resources Conservation Services (DNRC) river condition data. In collaboration with MT DNRC, this data drives functionality similar to the River Conditions tool on the Big Hole River Conditions web page for eight basins within the Missouri Headwaters Basin. The tool is to be embedded on websites for easy access to real-time stream conditions such as temperature and flow, and river status (e.g., restrictions, closures).