The purposes of OFBD are:

A. To promote the knowledge of Black-tailed Deer and its habitat.
B. To raise money for Black-tailed Deer and other wildlife.
C. To recruit volunteers to help with projects funded by OFBD and other wildlife projects.
D. To promote tourism and nonresident participation by sponsoring the Oregon's National Blacktail Hunt.
E. To work with the Oregon Department of Fish & Wildlife, particularly in projects funded by OFBD.

Monies raised have been used to reseed and plant shrubs in hundreds of acres of clear-cut national forest, to install a wildlife water cistern, to gate a road to give wildlife escapement, to purchase decoys for state police, to sponsor Oregon 4-H shooting sports program, to support the Devil's Garden Interstate Deer Herd Study, project coordinator, Donald Gay, a Oregon Dept. of Fish & Wildlife study on Ecological relationship between Columbian White-tailed and Black-tailed Deer in Southwest Oregon, research project leader, Dr. DeWaine H. Jackson, many $500.00 scholarships to further study in outdoor related fields to high school and college students, purchased radio collars for a Black-tailed Deer study by Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, $3,495.00 for NavTrack CoPilot, for State Police, a GPS unit, used from an airplane to pinpoint poachers, $250.00 to the Oregon Outdoor Women program, and $22,000.00 toward a Black-tailed deer fawn survival study.

OFBD provided $5,000.00 to help purchase Green Forage Project land, prime Black-tailed Deer habitat, keeping it from development, and insuring hunter access, and $24,000.00 for a study by OSU and the Oregon Department of Fish & Wildlife on hair Loss syndrome on Black-tailed Deer.