Our Mission
We conserve and care for the lands and waters that sustain Central Oregon, so local communities and the natural world can flourish together for generations to come. To achieve our mission, we make the following core commitments:
Our Commitments
Commitment 1: Scale up conservation, stewardship, and restoration across Central Oregon. Climate change and our rapidly growing region are placing enormous pressure on our life-sustaining resources: clean air, clean water, and native plants and animals. We will work with our communities and partners to prioritize, conserve, and restore lands in Central Oregon using place-based, data-driven, landscape-scale approaches.
Commitment 2: Connect everyone–to the land, nature, and each other. We believe that people are a part of the natural world. Together we can create places for ALL communities to connect with the Land Trust and the lands we conserve.
Commitment 3: Restore access, stewardship, and ownership of land to Tribes and Tribal communities. The Land Trust upholds the Tribal rights of sovereign nations, and we honor and support their role as the original stewards of the land and water. We will work collaboratively with these Nations to return access, stewardship, and land.
Commitment 4: Grow Deschutes Land Trust’s leadership role and organizational capacity. Strong organizations can create lasting change in our community. We strive to build the Land Trust of the future to help conserve and care for the lands and waters our region needs to thrive.
You can read more about how we will uphold these commitments in our Strategic Vision.
Learn more:
- About our protected lands.
- About our current projects.
- About our climate change commitment.