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Intermountain Region 
The Intermountain region covers the many diverse landscapes between the coast and the Rocky Mountains. The many wetlands, lakes and rivers provide important habitat for many migratory birds. The region is home to over 1.6 million breeding ducks and more than 100,000 over-wintering ducks, geese and trumpeter swans.
Ducks Unlimited Canada is actively working in this region to conserve wetland habitat. The conservation work is being done in cooperation with industry, government and foundation and other nongovernment organizations.
The Intermountain provides habitat for the majority of the world’s Barrow’s Goldeneye, continentally significant numbers of bufflehead and hooded merganser as well as approximately 250,000 breeding mallards. DUC is encouraging the adoption of land use practices that help conserve priority wetlands and uplands and maintain the quality of water flowing through the grasslands and forest. These programs also benefit the many federally and provincially listed species at risk found in the Intermountain’s unique and diverse habitats.
Habitat Facts
- Intermountain habitat secured: 107,587 hectares
- Intermountain projects: 333
Intermountain Fact Sheets
- Bogs (PDF, 645 KB)
- Fens (PDF, 615 KB)
- Marshes (PDF, 604 KB)
- Wet Meadows (PDF, 600 KB)
- Shallow open water (PDF, 455 KB)
- Shrub-carrs (PDF, 648 KB)
- Swamps (PDF, 755 KB)
- Wetlands (PDF, 648 KB)
- Wetland and change (PDF, 737 KB)
