Wildlife Management Areas

Thirty-one Wildlife Management Areas located in seven Fish and Game regions have been established to protect wildlife habitat and are available for hunting, fishing and other public enjoyment of wildlife. Varying from 275 to 85,000 acres, each area is dedicated to primary purposes such as big game, waterfowl and upland game. The lands encompassed by the WMAs vary from backcountry forested habitats for big game animals to agricultural areas with important pheasant and waterfowl habitat. Thousands of big game animals winter on some WMAs and tens of thousands of waterfowl winter on others. Nongame wildlife use all the WMAs. These lands are diverse and critical habitats that provide great opportunities to enjoy both game and nongame wildlife. Various private, state, and federal entities have entered into agreements with or sold lands to IDFG for the management of the state's fish and wildlife. Each property agreement/lease/deed/easement/permit in the IDFG Lands database was digitized based on their legal descriptions. Various GIS datasets were used to help digitize each property: township range section, geographic names, ITD roads, FS roads, hydrography, land ownership, county boundaries, etc. Properties were combined (via dissolve) based on property name to create the polygons for each WMA.

分布于7个鱼类与狩猎管理区内的31处野生动物管理区（Wildlife Management Areas，WMAs）已设立，旨在保护野生动物栖息地，同时可供公众开展狩猎、垂钓及其他野生动物相关公共休闲活动。
该类管理区的面积跨度为275英亩至85000英亩不等，每处均以大型猎物狩猎、水禽狩猎及高地猎禽狩猎为核心建设目标。
WMAs所覆盖的土地类型多样，从为大型猎用动物提供栖息场所的偏远森林栖息地，到具备重要雉鸡与水禽栖息地的农业区域均有涵盖。部分WMAs会迎来数千头大型猎用动物在此越冬，另有一些则会成为数万只水禽的越冬场所。所有WMAs均会被非猎用野生动物所利用。这些土地兼具生态多样性与关键保护价值，为公众观赏猎用与非猎用野生动物提供了优质契机。
各类私人、州级及联邦机构均已与IDFG签订协议，或向其出让土地，以用于本州鱼类与野生动物资源的管理工作。
IDFG土地数据库中的每一项不动产协议、租赁契约、产权证书、地役权文件及许可证明，均依据其法律文本完成了数字化处理。
本次数字化过程依托了多套地理信息系统（Geographic Information System，GIS）数据集，涵盖镇区、区间与地块、地理名称、ITD道路、FS道路、水文数据、土地所有权信息以及县级行政区界线等内容。
系统依据不动产名称，通过融合（dissolve）工具将相关地块合并，以此生成每一处WMA对应的多边形矢量图层。