Thank you for visiting the NHI web site and using our digital data products. On this page, you can download the Washington Current and Historic Wildlife-Habitat Types GIS data. These data were created by NHI in cooperation with the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) for use in the Wildlife-Habitat Relationships in Oregon and Washington book published in early 2001.

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Dataset (Download)	Size (zip/unzip)	Source	Image	Documentation	Notes
Washington Current Wildlife-Habitat Types	18.4m/39.6m	Northwest Habitat Institute and Washington Department of Fish & Wildlife, 1999.		Metadata Project Report Class Descriptions.	-Covers entire state of WA and coast. -Format: Zipped directory containing Arc/Info GRID. -Grid contains look-up table (.lut) with class names. -Projection: WA State Plane. -Scale: 1:100,000. -Cell size: 82.02ft (25m)
Washington Historic (circa 1850) Wildlife-Habitat Types	54kb/138kb	Northwest Habitat Institute, 2000.		Metadata Coming Soon! Class Descriptions.	-Covers entire state of WA and coast. -Format: Zipped directory containing Arc/Info GRID. -Projection: WA State Plane. -Scale: 1:1,000,000. -Cell size: 3280.833ft (1000m)

Please visit the Washington Geographic Information Council and Washington Department of Ecology for additional Washington GIS data.