Hunting and Wildlife Management Maps

Apparently my obsession with drawing maps for Wikipedia hasn't quite cooled, yet. When I went to see Leann in her lab a few weeks ago, I spotted a map on the wall detailing the wildlife management units for Utah. Rather than tear it down and scan it so that I could make an .svg map out of it [1], I searched online for the same information. I found a version by the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources [2] and a version put together by Utah State University.[3] At the USU site, I also spotted a map showing the regional hunt units for Utah. I made maps of both. So that county lines could still be visualized, I made the units semi-transparent. Then I went ahead and made maps for several other states.

Utah has 5 regional hunt units.

Utah has 30 wildlife management units, some of which are further divided into subunits.

Nevada has 3 regional hunt units.

Nevada has 29 wildlife management units, most of which are further divided into subunits.

Idaho has 7 regional hunt units.

Idaho has 12 wildlife management units, all of which are further divided into subunits.

New Mexico has 4 regional hunt units.

New Mexico has 58 wildlife management units, some of which are further divided into subunits.

Arizona has 6 regional hunt units.

Arizona has 46 wildlife management units, some of which are further divided into subunits.

Oregon has 6 regional hunt units.

Oregon has 67 wildlife management units.

I could've kept going, but I started losing interest in making these maps. For one thing, Montana and Wyoming have different management units for the different game species. For another, states like Colorado and Washington had hundreds of management units.[4] So even though there are probably easy maps to make for many of the other states (e.g. Pennsylvania [5]), I petered out before even finishing the Western states.

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Notes:

[1] If you're unsure what an .svg file is, see my post Raster Graphics and Vector Graphics.

[2] See http://wildlife.utah.gov/hunting/biggame/wmas.php.

[3] See http://extension.usu.edu/utahrangelands/htm/wildlife/.

[4] See http://plicmapcenter.org/view.php?st=CO&ag=BLM&typ=Hunting (Colorado) and  http://plicmapcenter.org/view.php?st=WA&ag=BLM&typ=Hunting (Washington).

[5] See http://archery.biz/pennsylvania/wmu-map-500.gif.

Image attributions:

Utah Regional Hunt Units is by Ninjatacoshell, available at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Utah Regional Hunt Units.svg.

Utah Wildlife Management Units is by Ninjatacoshell, available at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Utah Wildlife Management Units.svg.

Nevada Regional Hunt Units is by Ninjatacoshell, available at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nevada Regional Hunt Units.svg.

Nevada Wildlife Management Units is by Ninjatacoshell, available at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nevada Wildlife Management Units.svg.

Idaho Regional Hunt Units is by Ninjatacoshell, available at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Idaho Regional Hunt Units.svg.

Idaho Wildlife Management Units is by Ninjatacoshell, available at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Idaho Wildlife Management Units.svg.

New Mexico Regional Hunt Units is by Ninjatacoshell, available at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:New Mexico Regional Hunt Units.svg.

New Mexico Wildlife Management Units is by Ninjatacoshell, available at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:New Mexico Wildlife Management Units.svg.

Arizona Regional Hunt Units is by Ninjatacoshell, available at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Arizona Regional Hunt Units.svg.

Arizona Wildlife Management Units is by Ninjatacoshell, available at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Arizona Wildlife Management Units.svg.

Oregon Regional Hunt Units is by Ninjatacoshell, available at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Oregon Regional Hunt Units.svg.

Oregon Wildlife Management Units is by Ninjatacoshell, available at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Oregon Wildlife Management Units.svg.