The Oregon Wildlife Institute was founded in 2007 with a mission of conserving and enhancing wildlife resources through research, education, and conservation planning. Our emphasis is on making science, management, and education matter.
We have nearly seventy-five years of collective experience in wildlife research and management with emphasis on wildlife ecology and natural resource management and extensive backgrounds in statistical analysis, study design and execution, and management planning.
Our expertise includes:
- Conservation planning: species assessments, management plans, science review;
- Monitoring approaches and implementation: strength of inference, adaptive management, protocols and methods;
- Population ecology: demography, abundance/occupancy estimation, modeling;
- Landscape ecology: habitat associations, connectivity;
- Ecotoxicology: identification of problem, risk assessment.
Featured Projects
OWI Partners with ISSSSP OWI was awarded a 5-year agreement to partner with the Interagency Special Status/Sensitive Species Program (ISSSSP). ISSSSP’s mission is the conservation and management of rare species in the Pacific Northwest, and is administered by the Regional Office of the U.S. Forest Service and Oregon/Washington State Office of the Bureau of Land Management. [More...] |
Conservation Detection Dogs
In 2007, OWI began a collaboration with the Working Dogs for Conservation Foundation to study the capabilities of conservation detection dogs for surveys of Kincaid’s lupine, a rare prairie wildflower of Oregon’s Willamette Valley. [More...] |