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.
Also see Beginning with Habitat data.
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name |
description |
date acq'd
or developed |
| Androscoggin_1982_surveys.pdf | Depth surveys of lower Androscoggin River; Francis Brautigan 1982. From FOMB, June 2009. | 6/2009 |
| 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. | 11/2010 |
| 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 lakepts ) | 1990 |
| lksur90.dbf | Fishery survey data for lakes (1,943 entries); hardcopy metadata available; MDIFW Owen Fenderson. | 1990 |
| MarineBirdData.mdb | Shorebird survey data; should link to shorebird_sites. Includes field data through 2012. | 1/2013 |
| PEARL | Select tabular datasets from PEARL (brook trout, stocking, electrofishing, etc.) with metadata in PDF. | 3/2008 |
File Geodatabase, MDIFW.gdb contents: |
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| canada_lynx_review_area_2008 | Delineation of review area for lynx impact for FWS, MDOT and FHA. Shapefile originally from MEFO. | 2/2009 |
| 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 Superceded by TWWH below (which doesn't use the survey data). | 1997 |
| cwwhdata | CWWH summarized survey data/table (average counts for each spp.) from mid 1980's. | 1997 |
| dwa | Deer wintering areas for organized towns. | 4/2008 |
| dwa_lurc | Deer wintering areas for LURC jurisdiction areas. MDIFW metadata | 2001 |
| eagle-winter | Bald eagle winter survey 1997; no metadata; MDIFW | 1997 |
| eaglenestprod | Eagle nest productivity database; relates to eaglenests point feature class. | 5/2011 |
| eaglenests | Bald eagle nest locations from field surveys; source date through 2012 field season; 1,634 points. Metadata from 2005 data. UserID = ER are intact nests; UserID = IO are historic nests. | 9/2012 |
| eaglepolys | 660 feet (200 meters) and 1,320 feet (400 meters) buffers on active nests. 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. | 5/2011 |
| ehplvrtrn | Essential habitat for pipling plover and least tern. | 5/2011 |
| eh_rtern | Roseate tern essential habitat. See Essential Habitats document (18MB pdf) for details, etc. (dated 3/1/2006). Metadata is from 2003. | 4/2008 |
| ETSc | Locations of wildlife species that are endangered, threatened, or of special concern in Maine; multi-part polygons, 3,659 polygons (see ETSc_single below for single-part). Previously RTE/BCD/Heritage data. | 5/2011 |
| ETSc_single | Locations of wildlife species that are endangered, threatened, or of special concern in Maine; single-part polygons (6,528). Previously RTE/BCD/Heritage data. | 5/2011 |
| iwwh | Inland Waterfowl/Wading Bird Habitat (IWWH) with a high or moderate rating; significant wildlife habitat and are protected under NRPA. Low-rated IWWHs are NOT included in this layer because they do not meet the definition and are not protected under NRPA. Also see ArcCatalog for metadata and Coop Unit writeup. | 05/2011 |
| iwwh_wetlands | Wetlands used to map IWWH. | 1/2009 |
| iwwh_wetland_footprints | Wetland footprints (merged perimeter of the component wetlands) used to map IWWH. | 1/209 |
| LynxDistribution_oct2011 | Shapefile of lynx locations; be sure to review metadata in ArcCatalog before using; Word Doc also available in this directory. Also see 'canada lynx...' above. Received from MDIFW 8/2012. | 10/2011 |
| 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 file; MDIFW/GOMP Tom Hodgman | 2000 |
| meosprey | Osprey nest locations; point coverage; MDIFW/GOMP Charlie Todd. | 1999 |
| meospreyBRI | Update of meosprey: osprey nest locations. Point layer being updated by BRI and MDIFW. Many meosprey points are not included. | 7/2012 |
| mi99_polygon | 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. Point and polygon file available. Developed/data GOMP/MDIFW/PMNWR | 3/2004 |
| MI2007 | Maine coastal nesting islands data through the 2007 nesting season; includes nest counts, island significance, etc. Added 5 new islands to nationally significant islands list since MI2002, total is now 382; 87 islands are in the preferred alternative. Point and polygon file available. Developed/data by GOMP/MDIFW/PMNWR | 2007 |
| regions_admin | Administrative regions of MDIFW; uncertain of origin. | |
| sharptsp | Sharptail sparrow; point coverage; join with sharptsp99.dbf; MDIFW, Hodgman. | 1999 |
| shorebirds | Shorebird Significant Wildlife Habitat areas - MDIFW official designation. 579 polygons. | 5/2011 |
| 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 'shorebirds' layer above. 1,224 polygons. | 8/2009 |
| sni | NRPA Seabird nesting islands. | 4/2008 |
| twwh | Tidal wading bird and waterfowl habitat (see also cwwh98 above). | 4/2008 |
| waderpts | Wading bird colonies, MDIFW/GOMP; created by GOMP in 1998 from 1996 data. Will probably be updated in Fall/Winter 2009/10. | 1996 |
Winter waterfowl survey data is available in Coastal Waterbird Survey directory.
