DU Conservation Priority Areas

Click on the regions below to see how DU is conserving critical habitat in these priority areas.

Level I

• Prairie Pothole Region
• Western Boreal Forest - Canada
• Mississippi Alluvial Valley
• Central Valley / Coastal California
• Gulf Coastal Prairie

Level II

• U.S. Great Lakes System
• Great Basin
• Hardwood Transition / Lower Great Lakes / St. Lawrence Plain – Ontario
• Mid-Atlantic Coast
• Pacific Northwest
• Southern Great Plains

Level III

• Baja California Desert
• Western Boreal Forest - Alaska
• British Columbia Intermountain
• Gulf Coast / Yucatan – Mexico
• Hawaii
• North Atlantic / New England Coast
• Northern Rockies and Southern Rockies / Colorado Plateau
• Northwestern Great Plains
• Peninsular Florida
• Southeastern Coastal Plain
• Upper Mississippi River
• West Coast of Mexico
• West Gulf Coastal Plain

Level IV

• Western Alaska / Aleutian – Bering Sea Islands
• Atlantic Canada
• Arctic Plains and Mountains – Alaska
• Interior Highlands
• Latin America & the Caribbean
• Northeastern U.S. Forests

Other Areas

• Sierra Nevada
• Sonoran and Mohave Deserts / Sierra Madre Occidental

Conservation in Canada

• Ducks Unlimited Canada