2006-2007 Wildlife Inventory in the Jarbidge Field Office

Large scale habitat alterations within the Jarbidge Field Office (JFO) created concern for special status species and wildlife in general. In September 2005, BLM agreed to a Stipulated Settlement Agreement to a lawsuit filed by Western Watersheds Project. One of the settlement points of litigation was to conduct a wildlife inventory on a number of wildlife species. The focus of the inventory was to sample for a variety of lesser known wildlife species within the JFO, presently categorized by Idaho BLM as sensitive species. While inventorying for the focus species, BLM collected data on all wildlife captured.