Since 1991, PCJV partners have protected more than 15,000 acres of important habitat for birds, ranging from tidal wetlands and river floodplains to coastal bogs and rare high-elevation wetlands near the crest of the Coast Range. Many of the acquisitions have focused on protecting coastal wetlands, including:

• new national wildlife refuges at Siletz and Nestucca bays, a 500-acre expansion of Bandon Marsh National Wildlife Refuge, and the addition of one of the coast’s most important seabird nesting sites, Crook Point, to the Oregon Islands National Wildlife Refuge.
• on the Columbia River, addition of 4,200 acres to the Lewis and Clark National Wildlife Refuge and an 800-acre expansion of the Julia Butler Hansen Refuge for the Columbian White-tailed Deer.

In addition, land trusts and other non-profit organizations have worked with local, state and federal agencies to protect large blocks of habitat at other key coastal sites. Most of these partnerships have targeted tidal wetlands, including major acquisitions within the Columbia, Necanicum, Tillamook Bay, Yaquina, Siuslaw and Coos Bay estuaries. Other acquisitions have protected floodplain wetlands along the lower reaches of coastal rivers and streams, and some of the state’s last remaining spruce swamps.

Joint venture partners have also worked to restore tidal wetlands within most of Oregon’s estuaries, including major projects at Siletz, Nestucca and Yaquina and Alsea bays, Coos Bay’s South Slough, the Columbia River’s Youngs and Trestle bays, and the Salmon, Siuslaw and Umpqua rivers.

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