Map from Price, J., S. Droege, and A. Price. The summer atlas of North American birds. Academic Press, London, England. Keys to management include providing landscapes that include native grasslands and wetland complexes. Wetland complexes contain a diversity of wetland classes, including ephemeral, temporary, seasonal, semipermanent, and permanent wetlands, and intermittent streams.
Willets use wetlands of various salinity.
Willets breed from central Alberta and Montana through southern Manitoba, and the Dakotas, south to southcentral Oregon and central California, and east to northcentral Nevada, eastern Idaho, northern Utah, western Wyoming, and northern Nebraska. A table near the end of the account lists the specific habitat characteristics for Willets by study. Ryan et al. Berkey et al. Willet habitat characteristics.