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A Commitment to ConservationBy donating 5% of pretax profits annually, combined with a unique
program that provides matching grant incentives, The Orvis Company and Orvis customers customers have raised over 10 million dollars for
conservation efforts in the last 10 years.
Signature Grant Locations1999-2008
Big Hole River Grayling Project, Montana 2007McCloud River Redband Trout, California 2007
Battenkill Restoration Fund, Vermont 2006Trees for Trout on Colorado's South Platte River, Idaho 2006
Maine's Rapid River, Maine 2005Henry's Fork Access, Idaho 2005
Downeast
Lakes Forestry Partnership, Maine 2005San Francisco Bay Restoration, California 2004
Golden Trout Habitat Restoration
in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, California, 2004Rapid River Brook Trout, Maine 2004
Securing Safe Passage for
Oregon's Chinook and Sockeye Salmon,
Deschutes Basin Land Trust, Oregon 2003
Preserve
Essential Migratory Bird Habitat, Utah -
Canada, 2003Madison Review, Montana, 2002
Long-Billed Curlew, Montana -
Mexico, 2002Jefferson River Watershed Project, Montana, 2001
Muskeget
Island Roseate Tern Project, Massachusetts, 2001Rogue River, Oregon, 2000
Scorton
Creek Purchase, Massachusetts, 1999Grouse Habitat in the Green Mountains, Vermont, 1999
Apalachicola Land Protection, Florida, 1999Laguna Madre, Texas, Mexico, 1999
Salmon Run Protection Oregon
•Mission:
To acquire, protect and restore 1240 acres of critical Sockeye and Spring Chinook habitat
•Tactics:
Save land from development and create the Metolius Preserve, restoring and protecting habitat on Metolius River and Lake Creek
•Beneficiary Organizations:
Deschutes Basin Land Trust Partners
•Funding Partner:
National Fish & Wildlife Foundation
Deschutes Basin Land Trust
•Funds Raised:
$200,000
Golden Trout habitat restoration in the Sierra Nevada Mountains of California
•Mission:
Replenish decreasing numbers of native golden trout
diminishing due to habitat destruction and competition from non-native fish.
•Tactics:
Habitat restoration, riparian zone protection, collect genetic data and disperse genetically pure golden trout at vital areas in the river.
•Beneficiary Organizations:
California Trout
•Funding Partner:
National Fish & Wildlife Foundation
•Funds Raised:
over $200,000
Grayling Habitat, Big Hole Watershed Montana
•Mission:
Restore habitat for the threatened Fluvial Arctic Grayling
•Tactic: :Restore connectivity for grayling migration between the mainstem of the Big Hole and Rock Creek, a historic spawning and juvenile rearing tributary.
•Beneficiary Organizations:
Big Hole Watershed Committee
•Funding Partner:
National Fish & Wildlife Foundation
•Funds Raised:
$91,000
International Programs Outside North America
Protecting
Gorilla Populations in Rwanda
•
In 2006 and 2007 Orvis and raised over $250,000 for The Cheetah Conservation Fund
of Namibia.
•In 2008 established outreach partnership with World Wildlife Fund
to help stop tiger poaching in Cambodia.
•In 2009 raising funds for the Mountain Gorilla Veterinary Project
of Rwanda
How we do it
Reference check
Measures of
Success critique
Request for Proposals Matching Funding
Publicity
Acknowledgments
Building Organizational Sustainability
Teton Creek Restoration Idaho
•Mission:
Restoration of vital cutthroat trout spawning habitat
•Tactic:Reverse effects of illegal channelization
by restoring sinuosity of stream and riparian zones.
•Beneficiary Organization:
Friends of Teton Creek
•Funding Partner:
National Fish & Wildlife Foundation
•Funds raised so far this year:
$80,000
Outreach
Catalog Promotions
www.orvis.com
Round up for Conservation
Orvis News
YouTube Blog NetworksPress Releases
Catalog Promotions
Orvis News
www.orvis.com
Round Up for Conservation
Press Releases
Blog Networks
Ahead in 2009
•Habitat Restoration on the Au Sable river in Michigan
•Helping save the Mountain Gorillas of the Congo in Rwanda
•Supporting dam removal on the Penobscot River
in Maine
•Celebrating Trout Unlimited’s 50th
Anniversary with projects from Alaska to Vermont
Michigan Rwanda Maine Nationwide
Going Forward, Going Further.
Energy:Reducing our energy consumption and buying
renewable sources when possible
Waste: Achieving 100% recycling on all recyclable items and developing
new ways to close the resource loop in product development
Paper:
Using a certified mill for catalog paper that not only
meets the chain of custody requirements, but is demonstrably better than other mill partners.
Awareness:
Building internal consensus and customer awareness
about sustainability through our example.
ENERGY
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PAPER
““If we are to benefit from the If we are to benefit from the use of our natural use of our natural
resources, we must be willingresources, we must be willingto act to preserve them.to act to preserve them.””
--Perk Perkins, CEOPerk Perkins, CEO