Salmon critical habitat GIS data [electronic resource].

Seattle, WA : NOAA's National Marine Fisheries Service, Northwest Regional Office.

electronic text : HTML file.

Updated irregularly

Began in 2000s?

Title from home page last updated July 17, 2007 (viewed on Oct. 29, 2007).

The GIS data are based on information used by NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service to identify areas designated as critical habitat under the U.S. Endangered Species Act for 12 evolutionarily significant units (ESUs) of Pacific salmon and steelhead. The data are provided in two ESRI formats - shapefiles or coverages. Each ESU has a zipped data package that contains metadata and two data layers.

English

December 06, 2007

Mode of access: Internet from the NMFS Northwest Regional Office web site. Address as of 10/29/07: http://www.nwr.noaa.gov/Salmon-Habitat/Critical-Habitat/CH-GIS-Data.cfm ; current access is available via PURL.