Looking forward to 2025
Our greatest conservation success stories have happened because of Indiana’s conservation partners working together.
The revision of the Indiana State Wildlife Action Plan began in January 2023 and will be completed by Oct. 1, 2025. The collaborative revision process helps people who care about and work for Indiana's natural resources to create a plan together. Indiana Division of Fish & Wildlife is leading the revision process by developing regional workshops that convene partners to develop the foundation of each regional plan. Now that the regional workshop portion of the revision has concluded, partners will work together to refine elements of the plans.
There are still ways to participate in the development of the plan. If you are interested in being involved in this planning process or wish to learn more, contact Elizabeth Mabee.
2015 Indiana State Wildlife Action Plan
While the 2025 Indiana State Wildlife Action Plan is currently being developed, we invite you to take a dive into the 2015 SWAP and ask yourself these questions:
- Are any of the threats to the natural resources of the state different almost 10 years later?
- Are there any new conservation opportunities that weren’t available almost 10 years ago?
For more information, contact:
Elizabeth Mabee
SWAP@dnr.IN.gov
(463) 203-3095
- Chapters
- Executive Summary
- Table of Contents
- Introduction and Purpose
- Public Involvement and Partnership Solicitation
- Statewide Assessments of SCGN and Habitats
- Indiana's Planning Regions
- Proposed Plan Monitoring SGCN and Habitats
- Use of New Information to Adapt Conservation Actions During Implementation
- Future Strategy for Revision and Update
- Glossary and Acronyms
- References and Acknowledgements
- Appendices
- Aquatic SGCN Habitat Associations By Order and Watershed
- Crosswalk Tables for Habitat Classifications
- Detailed Methods for Individual Landscape-level Models
- Habitat Classification Schemes and Definitions
- Indiana’s Invertebrate SGCN: Status, Distribution, and Associations
- Relative Abundance and Trends in Abundance of Indiana SGCN
- Distribution of SGCN across Indiana SWAP Planning Regions
- Great Lakes Region SGCN Habitat and Subhabitat Table
- Kankakee Region SGCN Habitat and Subhabitat Tables
- Corn Belt Region SGCN Habitat and Subhabitat Tables
- Valleys and Hills Region SGCN Habitat and Subhabitat Tables
- Interior Plateau Region SGCN Habitat and Subhabitat Table
- Drift Plains Region SGCN Habitat and Subhabitat Tables
- Most Relevant Conservation Actions
- Full Species Survey Results
- Full Habitat Survey Results
- Conservation Organization Survey
- Focus Group One
- Focus Group Two
- State Wildlife Action Plan Facilitation
- SWAP Survey Participation and Acknowledgements
- 2023 revision to Chapter 5
- 2023 revision to Chapter 7
- Partners
Indiana's State Wildlife Action Plan Advisory Committee:
- American Electric Power
- Ducks Unlimited
- Duke Energy
- Indiana Department of Environmental Management
- Indiana Department of Natural Resources
- Indiana Farm Bureau
- Indiana Forest & Woodland Owners Association
- Indiana Land Protection Alliance
- Indiana State Department of Agriculture
- Indiana Wildlife Federation
- Natural Resources Conservation Service
- Pheasants Forever
- Purdue University, Department of Forestry & Natural Resources
- The Nature Conservancy
- U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
- U.S. Forest Service
- Indiana’s 2006 State Wildlife Action Plan
- Full Report(Comprehensive Wildlife Strategy)
- Complete List of Habitat Definitions
- Communications Plan
- Guilds by Habitat and Sub-habitat
- Representative Species Expert Questionnaire
- Expert Questionnaire Results
- Habitat Narratives with Expert Comments
- Indiana Wildlife and Habitat Conservation Organizations Survey Form
- Informational Materials
- Species of Greatest Conservation Need in Indiana and Associated Habitat Types
- Taxonomic Group References
- Conservation Programs and Resources
- Suggested Wildlife Monitoring
- Suggest Habitat Monitoring
- Public Comments