Partner with others…

We value the power of partnerships. We seek to build partnerships with other agencies and organizations to leverage limited resources, to achieve better resource outcomes and to provide better services to the public. Stakeholders are a big part of how we can move to being more influential. Through stakeholders we can positively impact fish and wildlife conservation in ways that go well beyond our limited legal authority. Partnerships result in more resources going towards our projects than we alone can provide. We’re sharing other people’s resources to get the job done. And, it’s the same for the partner, i.e., they are getting more resources to get their job done, too. It’s that we’ve agreed on the same job. Given the realities of future state budgets, partnerships are where we should look for more human and dollar resources for projects. While it’s nice to be able to do it all ourselves and to control it ourselves, that greatly limits what can get done and our Mission suffers. Healthy partnerships lead to partners making decisions and doing agreed upon work with their staff and dollars.