The NWGAP Stewardship project began in 2009 with the goals of updating the protected areas inventory of northwestern states (WA, OR, ID, MT, WY) and of developing a seamless regional GIS layer to support a gap analysis of biodiversity protection. 

GAP aggregated public and private protected areas data into a common format and, with the assistance of many partners, reviewed management plans to assign a measure of management intent to protect biodiversity (GAP Status Code).

You can view the resulting map of the Northwest's Protected Areas by GAP status by cli clicking this link. The northwest region is illustrated by GAP Status Code in Figure 2.  The areas in green (GAP Status 1 and 2) are primarily managed for biodiversity protection and will serve as the base in the regional gap analysis of vertebrate species habitats and their habitats (coming soon).  

GAP stewardship data also records the ownership and managament information for each protected area.  You can view the resulting map of the Northwest's Protected Areas by ownership by clicking this link.

Download Northwest GAP Protected Areas Data

Regional Dataset (47 mb zip file)

Washington

Oregon

Idaho

Montana

Wyoming

To get data for the rest of the country, please visit the National GAP data download page

If you have data that you believe would be important to include in this database, or have any questions, please contact:

Lisa Duarte
Stewardship Coordinator
530 S. Asbury Street, #1
Moscow, ID 83843
lduarte@uidaho.edu
(208-885-3013)