Riparian Habitat Joint Venture (RHJV)
The Riparian Habitat Joint Venture (RHJV) project was initiated by California Partners in Flight in 1994. To date, nineteen federal, state and private organizations have signed the landmark cooperative agreement to protect and enhance habitats for native landbirds throughout California. The RHJV, modeled after the successful Joint Venture projects of the North American Waterfowl Management Plan, reinforces other collaborative efforts currently underway which protect biodiversity and enhance natural resources as well as the human element they support.
The RHJV goal is to conserve, increase, and improve riparian habitat to protect and enhance California's native resident birds and neotropical migratory birds. By developing a coordinated statewide approach, increasingly fragmented habitat patches will be connected and enlarged with an extensive network of riparian forests capable of supporting viable breeding populations of native birds. A wide variety of other species of plants and animals will benefit through the protection of forests along our rivers, streams and lakes.
For more information about the RHJV, contact Geoff Geupel or Sandy Scoggin, Point Reyes Bird Observatory, 415-868-1221.