Mission & Programs
Our Mission
To protect the rural nature of the Wallowa Valley and surrounding areas by working cooperatively with private landowners, Indian tribes, local communities and governmental entities.
The Trust uses economic and other incentives to help conserve the valley's natural, historic, cultural and agricultural resources, including forests, farmlands, ranchlands, grasslands, wetlands, waterways and open ground, for the benefit of present and future generations.
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Program Areas
The Trust operates three programs for land protection, acquisition and restoration.
The Trust's 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...
The Trust's Habitat & Open Ground Program seeks to protect a variety of lands along rivercourses and wetlands, on high bluffs and mountains and across the forests and prairies of the Wallowa Country. Read more...
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...
