A Conservancy Bed & Breakfast

By the end of Theodore Roosevelt’s time as president, he had created five national parks, four game refuges, fifty-one national bird reservations as well as the National Forest Service.

The North American Model of Wildlife Conservation is a set of principles that represent values toward wildlife and guides how it is to be appropriately used and managed. It provides a systematic way of understanding many of the conventions, laws, policies, and institutions that affect wildlife. Unlike many other nations, wildlife conservation in the U.S. and Canada is based on the notion that wildlife belongs to the people--not the government, private landowners, or individuals.

The Model includes seven foundational principles: 

1. Wildlife resources are a public trust to be managed by governments for the benefit of all citizens; 

2. Unregulated commercial markets for wild game that decimate wildlife populations are eliminated; 

3. Allocation is by law, meaning that laws are developed by citizens and enforced by government agencies to regulate the proper use and management of wildlife; 

4. Opportunity for all, which means that every citizen has the freedom to view, hunt and fish, regardless of social or economic status; 

5. Wild game populations cannot be killed casually, but only for a legitimate purpose as defined by law; 

6. Wildlife will be considered an international resource because wildlife migrates across political boundaries; and 

7. Science is the proper basis for wildlife policy and management, not opinion or conjecture, in order to sustain wildlife populations.

These principles were assembled and framed as the "North American Model of Wildlife Conservation" long after they were implemented.

We would also like to express our gratitude to Fred Graeber for the beautiful bird taxidermy, Josh Pierzina at Tines Up Taxidermy for the wildlife displays and to Tami Graeber for the exquisite quilted artwork that you see represented in various locations throughout the inn. Thank you.

Species we are celebrating as conservation success stories:

The Pelican (The White and Brown Pelican)

The Whitetail (Eastern Whitetail and the Columbian Whitetail (found only in Oregon))

The Swan (The Trumpeter Swan)

The Crane (Whooping Crane and Sandhill Crane)

The Peregrine (The Peregrine Falcon)

The Roosevelt (The American Pronghorn, North American Elk, The North American Bison)