About Oak Alliance
The Pacific Northwest Oak Alliance (hereafter Oak Alliance), spearheaded by Pacific Birds Habitat Joint Venture, operates as a collaborative made up of partners.
William L. Finley National Wildlife Refuge Credit: George Gentry USFWS
Who We Are
The Oak Alliance, spearheaded by Pacific Birds Habitat Joint Venture, operates as a collaborative made up of partners with a shared commitment to oak and prairie conservation and serves as an umbrella across all the partnerships to provide a mechanism for addressing and implementing state and multi-state strategies to advance oak conservation.
The group represents the shared priorities of regional oak and prairie partnerships in Oregon, Washington, Northern California, and British Columbia and includes a breadth of conservation-based nonprofits, local, state, and federal agencies, research organizations, and representation from tribes.
Mission and Vision
Mission
The Oak Alliance envisions a united, dynamic coalition of public, private, and tribal partnerships transcending state boundaries. We strategically champion landscape-scale oak and prairie conservation, amplifying collective energy to build capacity, secure resources, inform policy, and garner widespread public support.
Vision
Our vision is a future where these ecosystems play pivotal roles in fostering community well-being, biodiversity, wildlife populations, and economic vitality across the expansive Pacific Northwest. Led by the Pacific Birds Habitat Joint Venture, the Oak Alliance functions as a collaboration.
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!
Cascadia Prairie-Oak Partnership
CPOP is a community of people and organizations involved in prairie-oak conservation and species recovery efforts in western Cascadia, providing coordination for the technical prairie community in the Willamette Valley, Puget Trough, Georgia Basin ecoregion, and beyond.
CPOP serves as an information hub and improves outcomes by facilitating increased collaboration, idea sharing, and information transfer among the CPOP community.
We are our Partnerships
Partnerships are the tree trunk of the Oak Alliance, and together we are catalyzing proactive, voluntary, and community-led conservation. Nine local partnerships, engaging hundreds of organizations and many thousands of individuals, have been formalized through agreements to strategically advance conservation across public-private-tribal lands and leverage resources for a more rational and effective approach to oak and prairie conservation.
These partnerships work at the multi-county scale to advance local conservation. The oak and prairie partnerships are also working together beyond their borders. By pooling resources, coordinating regionally, generating consistent messaging on issues, and planning together, we are leveraging opportunities that benefit from the shared voice of the Pacific Northwest Oak Alliance and strength in numbers.