Welcome to the Idaho Highway Wildlife Linkage Wiki, a collaborative web site allowing you access and review of wildlife linkage areas along state and federal highways identified by staff of the Idaho Transportation Department, Idaho Fish and Game Department, and partner organizations in a series of workshops between 2004 and 2008.

This site is organized by the Idaho Transportation Department's six districts (see map below). Each district has a separate page, except district 6, which has two. On each of these pages are the wildlife linkages that were identified during the collaborative workshops. The links to each district's page are below.

How to use this site

The maps and data on this page are maintained in wiki software, which is a collaborative web site, allowing you to make comments that are visible to others (Just click the comment button at the top of each detailed linkage page). To find an area of interest along a state or federal roadway, refer to the District Google Maps below, or through the maps available within the individual District pages . You can also download the linkage areas as GIS files for offline reference (in "Linkage Maps Help and Documentation" section).

Glossary of database field names

Linkage Maps Help and Documentation

District 1
Google Map of District 1

District 2
Google Map of District 2

District 3
Google Map of District 3

District 4
Google Map of District 4

District 5
Google Map of District 5

District 6 East
Google Map of District 6 East

District 6 West
Google Map of District 6 West

Why don't you encourage the Dept of Fish and Game to extend seasons and increase the bag Limit of big game animals in the bottom lands and problem areas. Montana has been doing this for some time in the Bitteroot Valley where the Deer are in close to populated areas with busy roadways

contributed by Guest User on Sep 29 8:22am

I just made a comment, and made a new Google Map to identify an specific area we see deer often near the Boise Airport in the District 3 map. This is an example of a way to share a map to pinpoint a highway/animal problem.
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I can't see how to "join" this project or otherwise identify myself on the site, except as "Guest User." I am willing to help people learn how to make similar Google Maps. Please leave another comment here if you are interested and I will try to see if the administrators of the site want us to provide names and e-mail address contact information.

contributed by Gary O. Grimm on Dec 18 3:41pm

Gary your name did appear. your not as guest user. your name is up there. i live in MA not near here. but where i live there are lots of deer, coyotes, hawks,skunks, foxes, turkeys, rabbits, etc. the turkeys and deer exspeccially come out in the early morning and night (dawn and dusk). and they go right in our yard and do sometimes cross the roads.

contributed by Guest User on Dec 18 6:19pm