U.S Counties that contain Canada Lynx critical habitat

This dataset depicts counties in the United States which contain Canada Lynx (Lynx canadensis) critical habitat proposed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) in the Federal Register February 28, 2008. Critical habitat maps were only available for this species in non-spatial image format from the Federal Register, for the proposed critical habitat published on February 28, 2008. The Conservation Biology Institute obtained these images and geo-rectified them to a U.S. counties dataset published by the U.S. Census Bureau. This dataset DOES NOT represent critical habitat as mapped by the USFWS, but is rather an unofficial approximation of critical habitat.