Recommended Actions for all Key Conservation Issues

Water Quality and Quantity — Photo Credit: Keith Kohl, ODFW

The overall goals for the State Wildlife Action Plan are to promote healthy fish and wildlife populations by maintaining and restoring functioning habitats, preventing declines of at-risk species, and reversing any declines in these resources where possible. Reducing and reversing the impacts of KCIs can significantly contribute to these goals, while also contributing to healthy human communities. Recommended actions for all KCIs include:

Partnering with community leaders and local governments in both urban and rural areas to ensure planned, efficient growth and development, and to preserve fish and wildlife habitats, farms, forest and rangeland, open spaces, and recreation areas.

Providing access to information about fish, wildlife, and habitats for use in project planning.

Supporting financial incentives and voluntary conservation tools by funding, utilizing, and improving programs to support conservation actions, while developing new tools to meet identified needs.

Promoting collaboration across jurisdictional and landownership boundaries by integrating information about fish, wildlife, and habitats with collaborative frameworks, such as the Climate Adaptation Framework and the Integrated Water Resources Strategy.

Helping private landowners, public land managers, and individuals find ways to restore and protect Key Habitats and ecosystem services. Working creatively to find new opportunities and solutions.
Building awareness by informing Oregonians of conservation issues and the actions everyone can take that will contribute to Oregon’s collective success.