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East Moraine Community Forest

A familiar landscape connected to a community conservation effort.

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Wallowa Lake beneath the mountains, photographed in September 2017. Regional landscape context for this record.
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Wallowa Lake beneath the mountains, photographed in September 2017. Regional landscape context for this record.

Rick Obst from Eugene, United States · 2017-09-23 · CC BY 2.0 · Image & source ↗

Wallowa Land Trust describes the transfer of almost 1,800 acres of the East Moraine into county ownership in January 2020.

This landscape record is not a tax-lot boundary. A dated, authorized parcel export is still needed to represent the precise parcel inventory here.

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2020

Transfer into county ownership in January.

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Wallowa Lake and the mountains, seen from the county park at the north end.View photograph
Wallowa Lake

The lake, in spring

Gary Halvorson, Oregon State Archives16 May 2012
The Wallowa Mountains reflected in the lake, photographed from the north-end county park.View photograph
Wallowa Lake

Mountains, twice

Gary Halvorson, Oregon State Archives16 May 2012
The Wallowa Mountains and lake, photographed near the south end.View photograph
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A still moment on Wallowa Lake

Gary Halvorson, Oregon State Archives16 May 2012
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Land & water

Wallowa Lake's East Moraine: Securing a Community Legacy

From Wallowa Land Trust · 2019

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In their words
“Thriving farms and ranches are the heart of our local community and culture.”
Kathleen AckleyMarch 14, 2023
The larger story

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Wallowa Lake and the mountains, seen from the county park at the north end.
Chapter 01 Land & water

The land holds the story.

A river can be a farm’s water supply, a salmon’s route home, and a test of whether neighbors can make room for one another. Follow the Lostine to the East Moraine, where care for the land became a set of concrete agreements.

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