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Mission
To promote protection, restoration and enhancement of important habitats for birds and other native fish and wildlife.

Approach
The Oregon Habitat Joint Venture plays a statewide leadership role in encouraging and supporting efforts to conserve habitats through voluntary, cooperative means.

The Joint Venture functions as a facilitator and coordinator, assisting public and private partners in accomplishing activities that support the organization's mission. Partners retain their individual roles, responsibilities and decision-making authority.

The Joint Venture's collective efforts are guided by a steering committee, made up of representatives of the group's non-government members, that provides formal approval for direction based on informal consensus among public and private members.

The activities of the Joint Venture are primarily carried out through cooperative efforts involving one or more of the partners. The Joint Venture's staff is limited and focuses on coordination, communications and other activities that complement and supplement the efforts of individual partners.

Members of the Oregon Habitat Joint Venture vary in their interests, resources and level of commitment, but each contributes in some way to support of the Joint Venture's collective efforts.

Objectives

• Provide an organizational framework at the state level for voluntary, cooperative efforts to conserve important bird habitats. Link to local, regional and continental habitat conservation initiatives.
• Use planning processes to identify habitat conservation needs and opportunities statewide and assess priorities at multiple levels (state, ecoregion, watershed).
• Develop financial and public support for specific projects and wetlands conservation in general.
• Help establish partnerships to implement habitat conservation projects.
• Enhance communication and information sharing among Joint Venture partners.
• Expand public awareness and understanding of habitat values and conservation needs.