vision, Mission and Objectives

Vision, Mission and Objectives

THE PARTNERSHIP
The Southwest Alaska Salmon Habitat Partnership (Partnership) is an unincorporated association of local communities, Native organizations, subsistence users, anglers, hunters, commercial fishing interests, lodge owners, hunting and fishing guides, tourism interests, non-profit organizations, federal, state, and local agencies and corporations and foundations working cooperatively to conserve fish, wildlife and habitat and perpetuate the uses they support in Southwest Alaska.

The Partnership directs its efforts to habitat protection throughout Southwest Alaska, including the Alaska Peninsula, all Bristol Bay watersheds and the watersheds flowing into the Kuskokwim River from the south and east up to and including the Aniak River, an area of 39.8 million acres.

Activities of the Partnership are conducted in accordance with a Strategic Action Plan, portions of which are excerpted below.

MISSION
The Partnership works with foundations, corporations, governments, and individuals to raise awareness of the importance of protecting fish habitat in Southwest Alaska and to obtain support and funds to be used by agencies, land trusts and others to conserve private lands in cooperation with willing owners and to protect public waters essential for fish habitat.

VISION
The Partnership envisions naturally sustainable fish and wildlife populations, in all their biodiversity, thereby perpetually supporting compatible human uses throughout Southwest Alaska.

OBJECTIVES
• Conserve riparian habitats in drainages supporting anadromous and resident fish.
• Strengthen local communities by perpetuating fish, wildlife, and compatible human uses.
• Support historic uses of fish and wildlife through habitat conservation.
• Restore and enhance riparian habitat and associated uplands on public and private lands.
• Improve habitat management on publicly and privately owned riparian habitat and associated uplands through the use of cooperative management agreements and voluntary incentive programs.
• Reduce land management conflicts through habitat conservation.
• Identify, prioritize, and conserve important habitat.
• Support monitoring and evaluation of existing restoration projects, as well as pertinent research studies, to improve future restoration projects.
• Ensure traditional access points remain available to the public.