U.S. Fish & Wildlife ServiceGeographic boundary for the High Divide LCD in Montana and Idaho. The High Divide region located in eastern Idaho and western Montana, covers approximately 138,000 km2, contains the headwaters of the Missouri and Columbia watersheds and is vital for maintaining current and potential connectivity across privately owned lands between the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, the Central Idaho Wilderness, and the Crown of the Continent ecosystem. The High Divide collaborative has successfully worked to protect and sustain spawning habitat for anadromous fish from the Pacific Ocean, the region's outstanding opportunities for outdoor recreation, and its working ranchlands in a region susceptible to entrenched, polarized views on conservation. The Landscape Conservation Design process provides a framework to continue to bring many of these seemingly opposing interests together over a common concern for the High Divide to produce a shared, long-term, strategic landscape vision that ensures people living and working in the region can take action that will be sustained by the whole community. Without it, conservation endeavors would be disjointed between interest groups, and would most likely not have the input of the local communities, ultimately leading to patchwork and thus ineffective conservation efforts.ArcGIS FeatureLayerhttps://hub.arcgis.com/datasets/f1c0d0d179414b8b832ca3f8e4b7fb8f_1engU.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Open DataPublicHigh Divide LCD Boundary [United States]Web servicesUnited StatesLast Modified: 2023-06-27