ODFW has completed the process of revising the State Wildlife Action Plan, currently known as the Oregon Conservation
Strategy (OCS). States are required to complete a comprehensive review and revision of their SWAP at least every 10 years to remain eligible for State and Tribal Wildlife Grants. These grants are a major funding source for conservation in Oregon.
Oregon’s updated State Wildlife Action Plan was submitted to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for approval in
September 2025. If you have any questions or feedback, please contact us directly. Click here to: Send the SWAP/OCS
Revision Team an email.
These documents present updated information for the core sections of Oregon’s State Wildlife Action Plan that meet the
eight required elements of a State Wildlife Action Plan. These documents are anticipated to be approved by the Service
by April 2026.
- ORSWAP_Overview (pdf)
- ORSWAP_KeyConservationIssues (pdf)
- ORSWAP_Ecoregions (pdf)
- ORSWAP_COAs (pdf)
- ORSWAP_Habitats (pdf)
- ORSWAP_Species (pdf)
- ORSWAP_SpeciesInformation (xlsx)
- ORSWAP_Monitoring (pdf)
- ORSWAP_Toolbox (pdf)
Core information submitted in the SWAP is supported by appendices and the update to Compass, ODFW’s online mapping
platform that provides access to geospatial information related to the SWAP. Following the anticipated approval of the
core elements of the SWAP by the Service in April 2026, ODFW will publish the updated online version of the SWAP,
currently hosted at https://oregonconservationstrategy.com/.
Appendices:
The State Wildlife Action Plan (SWAP) helps protect fish and wildlife species by identifying threats and conservation
actions as well as outlining strategies to preserve habitats, restore ecosystems, and address the needs of at-risk
species. The plan also suggests actions that our partners across the state can take to support collective conservation
action. ODFW is tasked with the protection and enhancement of populations of all fish and wildlife, but with the
diversity of species and habitats and magnitude of threats on the landscape ODFW can't do it all alone. This revision
builds on the success of the 2006 and 2016 versions of the SWAP (the Oregon Conservation Strategy) and modernizes
content to ensure that emerging risks and new information are represented.
Updating Oregon's SWAP began in 2023 with review of the 2016 SWAP and initial scoping of needed updates and
opportunities to enhance the SWAP. In early 2024 ODFW launched a public online survey, which guided ODFW to the areas in
most need of update. Since then, ODFW staff have worked with technical experts around the state on a first draft of a
revised plan. Beginning in January 2025, partners and the public supported this process by providing ODFW review and
feedback of draft products. Input helped to ensure that the 2025 SWAP will be an effective tool for Oregon to reach our
goal of maintaining healthy fish and wildlife populations by protecting and restoring habitats, preventing declines of
at-risk species, and reversing declines where possible.
Partnership is critically important to successful conservation, and we believe that your participation and feedback
during the revision process is essential to Oregon's success.
We completed an extensive internal review and began our outreach
with a series of presentations to partner groups and outreach events. We also completed a survey for partners and the
public to provide input on the existing SWAP and what they would like to see updated. Our staff worked hard for the last
half of 2024 to update the SWAP, incorporating the feedback we had received to date to produce first drafts of updated
sections.
In early January 2025, we held our community engagement kickoff meeting and outlined the two primary audiences for the
SWAP revision; members of Federal, State, and local agencies, or tribes, or organizations that are working in
conservation, are technical partners and the general, public partners, who don’t do this as their job every day but are still looking for information or want to connect to conservation opportunities in their area.
In February 2025, we began a series of technical review workgroup sessions. Topic-specific meetings were held from
February to May and focused on discussing and reviewing specific sections of the SWAP. A total of 17 public meetings were
held in early 2025 to provide opportunity for engagement to the public and partners. Comments and feedback from the
technical review process were incorporated as feasible.
The draft SWAP was circulated for public review in July 2025. All comments submitted prior to July 31 were considered
and incorporated into the draft that was presented to the commission. The final draft was presented to the Oregon Fish and Wildlife
Commission on August 15, 2025 with opportunity for public testimony. The Commission approved the Department’s approach
to addressing the eight required elements of the SWAP for submission to the U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Service. In September 2025, staff worked to complete the final version that was submitted to the Service for approval.
The revised SWAP is anticipated to be approved by the Service by April 2026, at which time updated information will
be made available online through the fully web-enabled version of the SWAP.
Archived Revision Updates
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