Accomplishments

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 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.

We're constantly considering projects to maintain quality habitat and populations of Black-tailed Deer, studies and research of wildlife, scholarships for students interested in wildlife, and graduate wildlife studies.