Working on
Common Ground
The Oak Alliance unites public, private, and tribal partners to champion landscape-scale oak and prairie conservation across boundaries, enhancing ecosystem durability, community well-being, and biodiversity in the Pacific Northwest.
Garry Oak and Camas Meadow Credit: Alanah Nasadyk Creative Commons
Why Oak Matters
Oak Stewardship
Investment Strategy
What we do:
The Oak Alliance is a dynamic coalition of partnerships across the Pacific Northwest. Our collaborative effort focuses on landscape-scale oak and prairie conservation, harnessing collective energy to build capacity, secure resources, inform policy, and generate broad public support for oak conservation and restoration.
We recognize the vital role oaks play in enhancing forest and infrastructure protection, supporting healthy wildlife populations, community well-being, and driving economic growth from rural to urban areas across the Pacific Northwest. Our mission is to sustain these advantages and preserve oak ecosystems.
If you believe that oak systems are crucial to our landscapes, communities, and economy, we invite you to join us in this essential effort.
Guiding Principals of Our Work
- Build ecosystem and community resilience
- Reconnect people with oak
- Support Tribally-led priorities and ecocultural restoration
Explore the Partnerships
Partnerships are the backbone to this strategy and the mechanism to get work done.
Click your local partnership on the map to learn more!
We leverage our collective partnership to:
- Build capacity
- Secure financial resources
- Inform policy
- Garner public support
