Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife (ODFW)
$1,500

Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife (ODFW) with assistance from Deschutes Juvenile Community Justice (DJCJ) has built and given away bird boxes for over 15 years. Oregon Hunters Association has covered the bulk of these purchases for that time. ODFW buys a unit off cedar fence boards and nails, we then give it to DJCJ, and they cut the boards to length and use a wood brand to put the ODFW logo on the front of the box. After all the pieces are cut, they wrap them up into a kit with nails and bring them back to the ODFW office in Bend. The Bend office sells some to offset the costs, but since COVID we did not sell them for 2 years and just used them at Guzzler sites and on the Little Deschutes property that ODFW owns. The project oversees the guzzler program and I have 25-30 volunteers that work on about 60 guzzlers, and they put up and check on the bird houses. I also work with DJCJ on the 4 Little Deschutes property’s out of LaPine and we have 40-50 bird boxes on these properties. The Kids check them yearly replacing bad ones and cleaning them out every spring.