Data from Maine Department of Inland Fisheries & Wildlife (MDIFW)
All data in this directory is from MDIFW and should not be redistributed or portrayed on maps outside of the USFWS without permission of MDIFW.
For increased performance, these data will be put into a File Geodatabase, MDIFW.gdb, in 2009.
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name |
description |
date acq'd
or developed |
| allmainenests | Bald eagle nest locations from field surveys; source date through 2007 field season; 1,274 points. Metadata from 2005 data. | 10/2007 |
| allmainenests_Buff660 | Allmainenests shapefile buffered 660 feet by GOMP. This can be used as a short-term screening tool to ID potential issues for the new bald eagle national management guidelines under the Bald Eagle-Golden Eagle Act. | 3/2008 |
| Androscoggin_1982_surveys.pdf | Depth surveys of lower Androscoggin River; Francis Brautigan 1982. From FOMB, June 2009. | 6/2009 |
| BCD-polys | Biological Conservation Database; 221 polys. Also see "rte" below. | 4/2008 |
| BwH_buffers | Directory containing a File Geodatabase (V9.2) of coastal, pond, river, stream and wetland buffers used in Beginning with Habitat. GOMP created this FGD from shapefiles. | 4/2008 |
| canada_lynx_review_area_2008 | Delineation of review area for lynx impact for FWS, MDOT and FHA. Shapefile from MEFO. | 2/2009 |
| cwwh83 | Coastal (Tidal) Wading Bird & Waterfowl Habitat; survey polygons and other environmental data; polygon coverage. Superceded by TWWH (below).MDIFW metadata | 3/2002 |
| cwwh98 | Coastal Wading Bird & Waterfowl Habitat; polygon shapefile 'relates' to survey data cwwhdata.dbf; developed by GOMP from MDIFW data (process description). Superceded by TWWH below. | 1997 |
| cwwhdata.dbf | CWWH summarized survey data (average counts for each spp.) from mid 1980's. | 1997 |
| dwa_lurc | Deer wintering areas for LURC jurisdiction areas. MDIFW metadata | 2001 |
| dwa_nrpa | Deer wintering areas for organized towns. | 4/2008 |
| eagle-winter | Bald eagle winter survey 1997; no metadata; MDIFW | 1997 |
| eheagle | Bald eagle essential habitat; source date 3/16/2005. See Essential Habitats document (18MB pdf) for details, etc. (dated 3/1/2006). See also 'allmainenests05' above. | 3/2006 |
| ehplvtrnarc | Piping plover and least tern essential habitat lines; source date 5-12-2003. See Essential Habitats document (18MB pdf) for details, photos, etc. (dated 3/1/2006). Use in conjunction with ehplvtrnpoly shapefile below. | 9/2005 |
| ehplvtrnpoly | Piping plover and least tern essential habitat polygons; source date 5-12-2003. See Essential Habitats document (10MB pdf) for details, photos, etc. (dated 3/1/2006). | 9/2005 |
| eh_rtern | Roseate tern essential habitat. See Essential Habitats document (10MB pdf) for details, etc. (dated 3/1/2006). Metadata is from 2003. | 4/2008 |
| forestblocks | Unfragmented forested habitat blocks used for BwH. | 4/2008 |
| Heritage_all | Locations of wildlife species that are endangered, threatened, or of special concern in Maine. Update of RTE/BCD data | 5/2008 |
| ICENSUSdata.mdb | Seabird census data (icensus & sni); MS Access format. Includes most field data through 2008 (Brad didn't have GOMSWG minutes so there may be a few missing data for some terns on some minor islands). Also doesn't include results from 2008 aerial photo census of gulls and cormorants. | 3/2009 |
| iwwh_wetlands.shp | Wetlands used to map IWWH. | 1/2009 |
| iwwh_wetland_footprints.shp | Wetland footprints (merged perimeter of the component wetlands) used to map IWWH. | 1/2009 |
| iwwh.shp | Inland Waterfowl/Wading Bird Habitat (IWWH), a significant habitat under Maine's Natural Resource Protection Act. | 7/2009 |
| lake_fish_spp_inv.xls | Lake inventories statewide from PEARL | |
| lkindex.dbf | Fishery data for lakes (5,864 entries): hardcopy metadata available; MDIFW Owen Fenderson (see also MDEP) | 1990 |
| lksur90.dbf | Fishery survey data for lakes (1,943 entries); hardcopy metadata available; MDIFW Owen Fenderson. | 1990 |
| lynxdistribution_sept08 | Shapefile of lynx locations; be sure to review metadata before using. Also see 'canada lynx...' above. | 9/2004 |
| marshbirds | Occurrence data (season total) for American black duck, American bittern, common snipe, pied-billed grebe, and wood duck for 1998, 1999, and 2000;Point coverage; MDIFW/GOMP Tom Hodgman | 2000 |
| MarineBirdData.mdb | Shorebird survey data; should link to shorebird_sites. Includes field data through 2008. | 8/2009 |
| meosprey | Osprey nest locations; point coverage; MDIFW/GOMP Charlie Todd. | 1999 |
| mi99 | Seabird nesting islands of national significance; outdated, see MI2002 below. MDIFW/GOMP | 1999 |
| MI2002 | Maine coastal nesting islands data through the 2002 nesting season; includes nest counts, island significance, etc. GOMP/MDIFW/PMNWR | 3/2004 |
| PEARL | Select tabular datasets from PEARL (brook trout, stocking, electrofishing, etc.) with metadata in PDF. | 3/2008 |
| regions_admin | Administrative regions of MDIFW; uncertain of origin. | |
| rte | Rare, threatened, endangered state species locations/observations; 2,448 locations (previously BCD); 400m buffer for polygon shapefile; GOMP created point shapefile. MDIFW metadata (for previous BCD). These have been transferred to NatureServe's Biotics and are available in the "heritage_all.shp" above ('Heritage_all' supercedes 'rte' and 'bcd.'). | 5/2006 |
| sharptsp | Sharptail sparrow; point coverage; join with sharptsp99.dbf; MDIFW, Hodgman. | 1999 |
| shorebird | Shorebird Significant Wildlife Habitat areas - MDIFW official designation. | 3/2008 |
| shorebird_sites | Shorebird feeding and roosting areas; all sites. Links to MarineBirdData.mdb for count and other data. Doesn't include some of the latest purple sandpiper areas. These are areas of management concern; surveys started in 1993. See also 'shorebird' above. | 8/2009 |
| shorezone_iwwh | Inland waterfowl and wading bird habitat. Uncertain what the difference is between this and IWWH. MDIFW says this is an old dataset and shouldn't be used. | 8/2008 |
| shorezone_iwwh_new | Inland waterfowl and wading bird habitat that qualify under Municipal Zoning; a subset of IWWH (only areas > 10 acres and within organized towns). | 1/2009 |
| sni | NRPA Seabird nesting islands. | 4/2008 |
| twwh | Tidal wading bird and waterfowl habitat (see also cwwh83 above). | 4/2008 |
| undeveloped_blocks | Undeveloped habitat blocks from Beginning with Habitat. | 2004 |
| waderpts | Wading bird colonies, MDIFW/GOMP; created by GOMP in 1998 from 1996 data. Will probably be updated in Fall/Winter 2009/10. | 1996 |
xolddata |
Directory with data from previous years; partial listing below. | |
2006 |
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| Inland waterfowl and wading bird habitat polygons rated as high or moderate based on a process developed by Rustigian and Krohn 2002. Downloaded from MEGIS. Moved to 'xolddata-2006.' | 5/2006 | |
wwh_me |
Inland wading bird/waterfowl habitat; MDIFW metadata; report describing process to delineate these areas. Changed to shorezone_iwwh 5/06, see above. | 3/2003 |
2004 |
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eagle-nests |
Bald eagle nest locations; source date 2/23/04; no metadata. | 03/2004 |
Winter waterfowl survey data is available with Gulf of Maine biological data.
