Our mission is to preserve, promote, and develop the cultural, natural, and scenic resources along the Missouri River in central North Dakota. We do this by encouraging long-term respect, enhancement, interpretation, and appropriate development of the region’s heritage resources by the adequate funding and management of partnership activities.

We partner with NHA sites to attract visitors to their events and programs, working toward cohesive messaging and cooperative operations. In addition, our goal is to create support among community leaders, legislators, and inform the community about the importance of natural, historic, cultural, educational, scenic, and recreational resources of the Northern Plains.

The NPHF utilizes federal funds—including but not limited to sharing those funds with partners through matching grants—and raises other funds to implement the management plan.