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Farms & Ranchlands
The Farms & Ranchlands Program is the Trust's largest program area, whose purpose is to secure agricultural ground as perpetual working lands, helping keep farms and ranches intact.  Read more...
Habitat & Open Ground
The Trust's Habitat & Open Ground Program seeks to protect a varierty of lands along rivercourses and wetlands, on high bluffs and mountains and across the forests and prairies of the Wallowa Country.   Read more...
Indian Sacred Lands
The Trust's Indian Sacred Lands Program seeks to assist tribes and Indian people in their efforts to protect selected lands of special significance to them.  Read more...
Outings
Into The Wallowa Outings introduce visitors and residents to some of the significant lands of the Wallowa Country, highlighting what makes this county so unique.   Read more...

Wallowa County in Transition: New Stories from the Old West

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 Liza JaneCreative Markets for Traditional Products 
panel discussion moderated by Liza Jane Nichols of 6Ranch
Thursday, February 16 - 7 PM Hurricane Creek Grange Hall

A discussion on how local businesspeople, especially farmers and ranchers, have found new markets in response to wider ecological, economic, and social changes.  A primary theme will be unique ways of adding value to finished products.  Panelists are: Jill McClaran of the McClaran Ranch, Jim Zacharias of JayZee Lumber, and Larry Davis & Nicole Bellows of Northwest Goat Grazers/Happy Chick Farms.

Keeping Traditions Alive: The Next Generation
on Our Working Lands
panel discussion moderated by Todd Nash of Marr Flat Cattle Co.Buck
Wednesday, March 14 - 7 PM Hurricane Creek Grange Hall

A panel discussion on the future of our working lands, asking how the children of present day ranchers, farmers, and foresters can own land and make a living.  The panel will explore innovative solutions that have been successfully implemented in the Wallowa Valley.  Panelists will include young people who are inheriting and managing family land in Wallowa County.

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Into The Wallowa Outings

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Outing on the East Moraine of Wallowa Lake   © David Jensen

Thanks to all for a great 2011 summer outings season! This year, we shared the
Wallowa Country with over 420 outing & evening lecture participants!

We owe a big thanks to the outing leaders and evening lecturers for volunteering their time, expertise, and passion.

Check back throughout the fall and winter for upcoming events. 

We hope to see you on one of our Into The Wallowa Outings in 2012!

Into The Wallowa outings are half-day guided tours of significant lands throughout the Wallowa Country. All outings are led by local experts, free of charge, and open to the public. For more information, please contact Julia Lakes.

Into The Wallowa Outings & Evening Lectures Summer 2011 Schedule

The 2011 outings program was made possible in part by grants from Oregon Humanities (OH), a statewide nonprofit organization and an independent affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities, which funds OH’s grant program and Oregon Parks Foundation Fund.

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