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Wetlands Conservation in Idaho

Thirty-eight projects

Three Quarters of a million dollars

10,000 acres of wetland development/enhancement.

Here’s where your conservation dollars have gone to work in Idaho.

Hill City Marsh (Camas Marsh): Camas County. Partners: DU and The Nature Conservancy (TNC). Three projects, total wetland Acres conserved and enhanced = 1,380.

Borden Lake Game Management Area: Elmore County. Partners: DU and Idaho Fish and Game. Total acres restored = 255.

Rose Lake Wildlife Management Area: Kootenai County. First MARSH projects in US. Partners: DU and IDF&G. Wetland acres enhanced and developed = 490.

Roswell Slough: Canyon County. Three projects. Partners: DU and IDF&G. Total wetland acres restored = 347.

C.J. Strike WMA: Owhyee County. Partners: DU and IDF&G. Three acquisition parcels totaling 655 acres.

Fort Boise WMA. Four projects. Partners: DU, and IDF&G. Total acres = 209.

Snake River Fencing Project. Partners: DU, BLM, and IDF&G. 1000 acres of BLM land along the Henry’s Fork protected.

Thousand Springs/Chilly Slough. Wetland acquisition and enhancement of 898 acres. Partners: DU, IDF&G, BLM, TNC, North American Waterfowl Conservation Center.

Shoshone-Bannock Wetlands: Fencing of 25 acres of Spring Creek Marsh on the Ft. Hall Indian Reservation. Partners: DU and Shoshone-Bannock Tribes.

Ted Trueblood WMA. Development of conceptual restoration and acquisition plan for the WMA. Partners: DU, BLM, IDF&G.

Tex Creek WMA: Bonneville County. Partners: DU, Bureau of Reclamation, and IDF&G. Creation of 25 acres of wetlands.

Stocking Ranch: Caribou County. Partners: DU and IDF&G. Acquisition of 1,720 total acres, 120 of which are wetlands.

Steele Ranch: Caribou County. DU, US Fish and Wildlife Service, IDF&G. Development and enhancement of 70 acres.

Camas NWR: Jefferson County. Partners: DU and USF&WS. Improved water management to 600 acres.

Sterling WMA: Bingham County. Partners: DU and IDF&G. Pothole creation.

Hangman Creek Wetlands: Benewah County. DU, IDF&G HIP Program, USF&WS and private. Creating of a two acre brood pond.

Riverwood Ranch. Survey, design, and construction of 24 acre wetland. Partners: DU, IDF&G, BLM, National Fish and Wildlife Federation.

Bear Lake NWR: Bear Lake County. Partners: DU and USF&WS. 1820 wetland acres restored.

Slash E. Ranch. Improvement of 220 acres of nesting and brood habitat.

Camas Prairie: Water retention improvements on 100 acres of wetland.

Round Lake. Acquisition of 146 acres along the St. Joe River.

Kootenai NWR. Establishment of 245 acres of emergent wetland.

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