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Joseph, Oregon.jpg ↗

Visitor7 · 2013-04-09

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Wallowa Lake & Mountains in Northeastern Oregon (37833564981).jpg ↗

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Joseph, from above ↗

Sam Beebe · 2007-07-08

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Town and working fields ↗

Sam Beebe · 2007-07-08

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The valley from Mount Howard ↗

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Enterprise, from above ↗

Sam Beebe · 2007-07-08

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A night out begins here ↗

Ian Poellet · 2012-08-05

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Enterprise street corners ↗

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A place for the next chapter ↗

Ian Poellet · 2013-09-09

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The working landscape ↗

Gary Halvorson, Oregon State Archives · 14 June 2011

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The folds of the prairie ↗

Rick Swart, Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife · 2015-11-15

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Winter on Zumwalt Prairie ↗

Rick Swart, Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife · 2015-11-16

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A road across the prairie ↗

Rick Swart, Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife · 2015-11-15

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A horned lark on the Zumwalt ↗

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The river at Imnaha ↗

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A bend in the road, Imnaha ↗

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Following the Imnaha ↗

Sam Beebe · 2007-07-08

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The everyday buildings of Lostine ↗

Finetooth · 2010-09-18

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Water through Lostine ↗

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Summer on the Lostine ↗

Gary Halvorson, Oregon State Archives · 28 July 2020

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Above the Lostine River ↗

Gary Halvorson, Oregon State Archives · 28 July 2020

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A still moment on Wallowa Lake ↗

Gary Halvorson, Oregon State Archives · 16 May 2012

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The lake, in spring ↗

Gary Halvorson, Oregon State Archives · 16 May 2012

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Mountains, twice ↗

Gary Halvorson, Oregon State Archives · 16 May 2012

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First light at Fish Lake ↗

Gary Halvorson, Oregon State Archives · 31 August 2017

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A barn beneath the mountains ↗

Gary Halvorson, Oregon State Archives · 20 June 2016

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An alpine mirror ↗

araddon · 2009-08-03

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Glacier Peak, reflected ↗

Matthew Tharp / U.S. Forest Service · 2012-08-11

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A Joseph street detail ↗

Rick Obst · 2017-09-23

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Wallowa city hall and fire station ↗

Ian Poellet · 2013-09-10

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The EM&M building ↗

Ian Poellet · 2012-08-05

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Bill LaVoie at the Range Rider ↗

Brent Cheffings · 2026-09-03

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A Thursday night at the Range Rider ↗

Brent Cheffings · 2026-09-03

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Friday on the lawn at Terminal Gravity ↗

Brent Cheffings · 2026-09-04

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Rut Nut ↗

Brent Cheffings · 2026-09-04

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Dusk at Terminal Gravity, Friday of Juniper Jam week ↗

Brent Cheffings · 2026-09-04

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Morgan McHugh opens the day ↗

Brent Cheffings · 2026-09-05

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No covers ↗

Brent Cheffings · 2026-09-05

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Gretta Seabird ↗

Brent Cheffings · 2026-09-05

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Kathryn Claire and The Whylands ↗

Brent Cheffings · 2026-09-05

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The flag over the fairgrounds ↗

Brent Cheffings · 2026-09-05

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Shadow Basket ↗

Brent Cheffings · 2026-09-05

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The lawn at Juniper Jam ↗

Brent Cheffings · 2026-09-05

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The Lowtimers on the main stage ↗

Brent Cheffings · 2026-09-05

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Rose Gerber ↗

Brent Cheffings · 2026-09-05

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Sweet N’ Juicy after dark ↗

Brent Cheffings · 2026-09-05

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The last set ↗

Brent Cheffings · 2026-09-05

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Morgan McHugh at Terminal Gravity ↗

Brent Cheffings · 2026-09-03

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All rights reserved; published with the photographer’s permission
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Films & provider-hosted media

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Wallowa Lake's East Moraine: Securing a Community Legacy ↗

Wallowa Land Trust · YouTube upload: 2019-08-30

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Bob Webb: Preserving our History & Family Stories ↗

Josephy Center · YouTube upload: 2026-03-15

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Building Community Series: Healthcare ↗

Josephy Center · YouTube upload: 2025-04-30

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Building Community Series: Religion ↗

Josephy Center · YouTube upload: 2025-07-06

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Hawkins Sisters: Minam Stories ↗

Josephy Center · YouTube upload: 2025-09-12

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Lostine Canyon Forest Health ↗

Wallowa Resources · YouTube upload: 2020-02-26

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Building Community Series: Main Street Business ↗

Josephy Center · YouTube upload: 2025-06-12

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Tamkaliks Film ↗

Nez Perce Wallowa Homeland · YouTube upload: 2025-07-03

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Wallowa Lake Kokanee ↗

Wallowa Resources · YouTube upload: 2021-09-14

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Wenix Red Elk "Áwtni Tk''átat (First Foods)" ↗

Nez Perce Wallowa Homeland · YouTube upload: 2021-04-07

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Woodlands & Watersheds Festival 2024 ↗

Wallowa Resources · YouTube upload: 2025-03-03

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Workforce Housing - Wallowa County Community Meeting (8/31/2023) ↗

Wallowa Resources · YouTube upload: 2023-09-12

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Oregon Historic Cemeteries and the 1879 Robbery of Old Chief Joseph’s Grave ↗

Wallowa History Center · YouTube upload: Unconfirmed

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Hells Canyon Songs Project- Gary Eller ↗

Wallowa History Center · YouTube upload: Unconfirmed

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David Weaver- The Ku Klux Klan Comes to Wallowa County 1920-1925 ↗

Wallowa History Center · YouTube upload: Unconfirmed

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Destination Oregon: M. Crow General Store in Lostine ↗

Central Oregon Daily News · YouTube upload: Unconfirmed

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The 1866-67 Survey of Wallowa County, Oregon and Nez Perce Resistance ↗

Wallowa History Center · YouTube upload: Unconfirmed

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tamaalwit: natural law ↗

Nez Perce Wallowa Homeland · YouTube upload: Unconfirmed

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The Wallowa Story ↗

Wallowa History Center · YouTube upload: Unconfirmed

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The Legend of the “Hen Party”: Horsewomen of the Wallowas | Oregon Field Guide ↗

Oregon Public Broadcasting · YouTube upload: 2024-04-04

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hitoláayca (Going Upriver) ↗

NRS · YouTube upload: 2026-06-05

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Home in 2046: research sources

Original documents behind the future conversation. See how each is cited on Home in 2046.

Vital Wallowa Indicator Project: 2009 Baseline Assessment Report ↗

Oregon State University Extension Service and Rural Studies Program, with Wallowa Resources, NEOEDD and The Ford Institute for Community Building

Printed p.4 (Box 1, 2006 vision; framework and June 2008 forums); p.9 (migration by age); pp.20–21 (Indicator 6, child care arrangements, 2009 survey, n=98 children); p.32 (seasonal homes); pp.34–35 (Indicator 12, living-wage ratios, 2007); p.36 (Indicator 14, balance of trade, 2007); pp.42–43 (Indicator 19, working landscapes); pp.49–55 (civic involvement); pp.58–59 (Indicator 26, community trust); p.60 (summary); p.62 (survey methods)

February 2010; data vintages 2000–2009
Checked 2026-09-14

Economic Opportunity Analysis: 2021 — Wallowa County ↗

Wallowa County Board of Commissioners; prepared by PARC Resources with Oregon DLCD and Business Oregon

Printed p.2 (public process); p.10 (Table 2, school enrollment by district 2009/10); pp.14–15 (Tables 7–8, transfer payments 45.3% vs 29%); p.25 (county portrait); p.28 (lumber volume); p.70 (housing chapter); p.74 (Table 17, housing-authority rent figures)

2021 (TAC meetings June 2020–April 2021)
Checked 2026-09-14

Community Needs Assessment ↗

Northeast Oregon Economic Development District

Printed p.14 (Built & Natural Environments); p.17 (Economic Development challenges)

May 2021; interviews January–early March 2021
Checked 2026-09-14

Oregon Voices Data Summary: Wallowa County ↗

The Ford Family Foundation, with ECONorthwest and PSU Regional Research Institute

Pages 1–7; p.2 open-ended quotations; p.4 community participation; p.5 health items (medical and dental providers, substance abuse, mental illness); p.7 services

April 2023; fielded from summer 2021
Checked 2026-09-14

Coordinated Population Forecast for Wallowa County, its Urban Growth Boundaries (UGB), and Area Outside UGBs 2023–2073 ↗

Population Research Center, Portland State University, for the Oregon Population Forecast Program (Marquez, Sharygin, Loftus, Alkitkat, Montcho, Swanson and Wilde, 2023)

P.5 (methodology, held-constant assumptions); p.9 (births and deaths); p.10 (Figure 5, net migration); p.11 (age structure); p.14 (Table 2, UGB and area-outside-UGB estimates and forecasts: Enterprise 2,058→2,279, Joseph 1,160→1,274, Lostine 260→253, Wallowa 902→864, unincorporated 3,011→2,290, 2020→2040); p.17 (Appendix A questionnaire, Franz Goebel); p.18 (Table 5, age table)

June 25, 2023
Checked 2026-09-14

Decennial Census population counts, Wallowa County, Oregon: 2000, 2010, 2020 ↗

U.S. Census Bureau

Tables DECENNIALSF12000.P001 (P001001), DECENNIALSF12010.P1, DECENNIALPL2020.P1 (P1_001N), geography 0500000US41063

April 1 counts, 2000, 2010, 2020
Checked 2026-09-14

American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates 2020–2024, Wallowa County: Data Profiles DP03, DP04, DP05 and Detailed Table B25004 ↗

U.S. Census Bureau

DP04 total, occupied and vacant units and median value; B25004_006E seasonal vacancy (±130); DP03_0062E median household income

2020–2024 five-year estimates
Checked 2026-09-14

Fall Membership Report 2025-26 (with 2015-16 for comparison) ↗

Oregon Department of Education

Worksheets ‘District 20252026’ and ‘District (15-16)’, Wallowa County rows: Enterprise SD 21, Joseph SD 6, Wallowa SD 12, Troy SD 54

October 2025 count; file posted February 12, 2026
Checked 2026-09-14

Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, annual averages, Wallowa County (area 41063), 2022–2025 ↗

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

Rows agglvl 70 (county total), 71 (by ownership), 74–78 (by NAICS); disclosure_code N marks suppressed cells

2025 annual averages (2022–2024 also cited)
Checked 2026-09-14

Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, annual averages, Wallowa County (area 41063), 2015 ↗

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

Rows agglvl 70 and 71

2015 annual averages
Checked 2026-09-14

July 2026 Employment and Unemployment in Oregon’s Counties ↗

Oregon Employment Department

P.2, second paragraph

August 25, 2026
Checked 2026-09-14

1,791 Acres of Wallowa Lake’s East Moraine Acquired for Wallowa County ↗

Wallowa Land Trust

Headline; ‘Push to protect moraine receives broad support’; ‘A Community Legacy’

January 21, 2020
Checked 2026-09-14

Final Hurdle Cleared to Permanently Protect East Moraine Community Forest ↗

Wallowa Land Trust

Paragraphs 2–3; Katy Nesbitt quotation

February 8, 2023 (signing January 26, 2023)
Checked 2026-09-14

Wallowa Memorial Hospital 2025 Community Health Needs Assessment — Executive Summary ↗

Wallowa Memorial Hospital and partners; hosted by OHSU Oregon Office of Rural Health

‘Community Priorities’; ‘Aging Population’; ‘Outmigration for Care’; ‘Biggest Gaps in Service’

2025 (PDF created November 26, 2025)
Checked 2026-09-14

2024 Community Health Assessment Report ↗

Eastern Oregon Coordinated Care Organization

Printed p.70 (Wallowa County profile); p.71 (Childcare and Housing tables, footnotes 3, 7, 8)

2024 (data accessed November 2024; child care access figure 2019 vintage)
Checked 2026-09-14

Governor focuses on housing issues in Wallowa County visit ↗

Wallowa County Chieftain (Bill Bradshaw and Mike McInally); served at lagrandeobserver.com

Body text; Nels Gabbert quotation

May 6, 2023 (meeting May 5, 2023)
Checked 2026-09-14

Enterprise projects: EM&M building ↗

Working Homes LLC

EM&M Building, paragraphs 1–3

Undated page; acquisition July 2024
Checked 2026-09-14

Working Homes advances housing, building preservation projects in Wallowa County ↗

Elkhorn Media Group (Shannon Weidemann)

EM&M paragraphs and ‘Current upgrades’ list

September 2, 2026
Checked 2026-09-14

Interdependence in Wallowa County (from the 2020 TOP report ‘Cornerstones: Economic Mobility and Belonging in Oregon’) ↗

Oregon Community Foundation

Section ‘A community goal to support youth with economic opportunities’; endnote 10 (Opportunity Atlas)

2020 report; page undated; underlying data 2017–2020
Checked 2026-09-14

Strategic Planning — Nez Perce Wal’áwa Homeland 100-year strategic plan ↗

Nez Perce Wallowa Homeland (nonprofit)

‘Our Story’ (1989 date, 323 acres); pull quote attributed ‘Taz Conner, 1994’ between ‘Our Guiding Values’ and ‘Our Mission’; Goal ‘Reciprocal Relationships’ (10-, 30-, 100-year horizons; ‘address barriers to return’); funders list

Adopted 2023
Checked 2026-09-14

About Us — Nez Perce Wallowa Homeland ↗

Nez Perce Wallowa Homeland (nonprofit)

‘Who We Are’ (self-description); ‘Our Work’; ‘Organizational History’

Undated page; retrieved September 14, 2026
Checked 2026-09-14

History — Nez Perce Tribe ↗

Nez Perce Tribe

‘Treaties’ section

Undated page; retrieved September 14, 2026
Checked 2026-09-14

Fisheries Resources Management — Nez Perce Tribe ↗

Nez Perce Tribe, Department of Fisheries Resources Management

Opening paragraph; ‘Production Division’ project list (Lostine River Supplementation Project)

Undated page; retrieved September 14, 2026
Checked 2026-09-14

Restored Coho Salmon Run Supports Tribal, Sport Fisheries in Northeast Oregon for First Time in Decades ↗

NOAA Fisheries, West Coast Region

Paragraphs 2–3

November 13, 2020
Checked 2026-09-14

Snake River Basin Adult Chinook Salmon and Steelhead Monitoring 2021 Annual Report ↗

Nez Perce Tribe, Department of Fisheries Resources Management (copy hosted by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service)

P.4 (weir operation dates); p.26, Table 3 (Lostine River tributary escapement 914, 95% CI 746–1,164)

August 1, 2022 (spawn year 2021)
Checked 2026-09-14

East Moraine Community Forest Multi-Use Management Plan ↗

Wallowa County / Wallowa Lake Moraines Partnership

Rangeland — Status p.41 (Yanke Family Trust 2015 plan, 100–125 cow-calf pairs south of the elk fence); p.43 (committee recommendation of 80 cow-calf pairs on the southern pasture for August and September 2022); Management Actions pp.45–46 (rotation system, $75,000 permanent-fence estimate, ‘one of the most significant barriers’)

July 2022 (PDF created August 25, 2022)
Checked 2026-09-14

How virtual fencing could change rangeland management ↗

Oregon Public Broadcasting, Think Out Loud (Gemma DiCarlo; host Dave Miller)

Transcript; Pete Schreder on costs, training and the East Moraine pilot

September 3, 2024 (updated September 10, 2024)
Checked 2026-09-14

Virtual Fence Technology — Eastern Oregon Agricultural Research Center ↗

Oregon State University, College of Agricultural Sciences

Introductory text; blurb under ‘Part 3 – Up and Running’

Undated page; describes a January 29, 2025 workshop
Checked 2026-09-14

Where’s the grass-fed beef? ↗

Cory Carman, published by PERC (Property and Environment Research Center)

Paragraphs 5–7

February 24, 2011
Checked 2026-09-14

About Us — Carman Ranch ↗

Carman Ranch Direct

‘Ways To Buy’ (Cow Share; Wholesale)

Undated page; retrieved September 14, 2026
Checked 2026-09-14

Forests — Wallowa Resources ↗

Wallowa Resources

‘All-Lands Approach to Forest Health’, 2024 metrics block

Page carries ‘2024 metrics’; retrieved September 14, 2026
Checked 2026-09-14

Eastern Oregon town damaged by hail storm recovers together ↗

Oregon Public Broadcasting, Think Out Loud (Sage Van Wing; host Dave Miller interviewing Mayor Gary Hulse)

Transcript; Hulse on the number of homes damaged

August 25, 2022
Checked 2026-09-14

State sends millions to Eastern Oregon to deal with storm damage, pollution ↗

Oregon Public Broadcasting (Antonio Sierra)

Opening Wallowa section, before ‘Nitrates and flooding’

September 29, 2022 (Emergency Board meeting September 23, 2022)
Checked 2026-09-14

Honor UMCOR Sunday & OR-ID Disaster Response on March 15 ↗

Oregon-Idaho Annual Conference, The United Methodist Church

Bulleted list ‘OR-ID Conference UMCOR response by the numbers’, fourth bullet

February 18, 2026 (grant period October 2022–April 2023)
Checked 2026-09-14

Wallowa County Microgrid Plan (filed as public testimony document 122821 on HB 2066) ↗

ProtoGen, Inc. for Wallowa Resources Community Energy Program; filed by Wallowa County (John Hillock)

P.1 (CESP adoption December 20, 2023); Executive Summary cost table; p.42 (biomass, interconnection); p.43 (Limitations); p.44 (Engage Pacific Power, $300 review)

Plan dated February 2024; filed February 6, 2025
Checked 2026-09-14

Community Energy Plan and Microgrid pages — Wallowa Resources Community Energy Program ↗

Wallowa Resources Community Energy Program

‘Community Review Panel’ (energy-plan page); opening status sentence (microgrid page)

Undated pages; latest dated item November 2023; microgrid one-pager coded July 2024; retrieved September 14, 2026
Checked 2026-09-14

Workforce Introduction ↗

Robert Barclay et al., Flex Monitoring Team

P.5, opening Wallowa Memorial paragraph

March 2025
Checked 2026-09-14

About — Valley Bronze of Oregon ↗

Valley Bronze of Oregon

‘Our History’; ‘Careers With Us’

Undated; site footer © 2025; retrieved September 14, 2026
Checked 2026-09-14

Steve Parks — Oregon Culture Keepers Roster ↗

Oregon Folklife Network, University of Oregon

‘Bio’ section

Undated profile; retrieved September 14, 2026
Checked 2026-09-14

Three minutes with … Justin Doherty ↗

Wallowa County Chieftain, via Historic Oregon Newspapers (University of Oregon Libraries)

Page A9, headed Public Works, City of Joseph

February 7, 2018
Checked 2026-09-14

Library district fails ↗

Wallowa County Chieftain (Paul Wahl), via Historic Oregon Newspapers

Page A1, paragraphs 2–6

May 23, 2018 (vote May 15, 2018)
Checked 2026-09-14

Books, continued from Page A1 ↗

Wallowa County Chieftain, via Historic Oregon Newspapers

Page A9, ‘BOOKS’ continuation

August 8, 2018
Checked 2026-09-14

3 years after joining the Greater Idaho cause, Wallowa County votes to stop talking about it ↗

Oregon Public Broadcasting (Antonio Sierra)

Body text

May 21–22, 2026 (URL path May 21; page shows May 22)
Checked 2026-09-14

Rich Wandschneider: A ‘greater’ — and wealthier — Wallowa County ↗

Wallowa County Chieftain (opinion column)

Body text

May 17, 2023
Checked 2026-09-14

Tamkaliks Celebration — Nez Perce Wallowa Homeland ↗

Nez Perce Wallowa Homeland (nonprofit)

Sections ‘Tamkaliks: Beginnings’ (1990 first powwow, 1998 move and naming), ‘Tamkaliks 2026 Schedule’, ‘Tamkaliks Celebration & Friendship Feast’

Undated page carrying the 2026 schedule (July 17–19, 2026); retrieved September 14, 2026
Checked 2026-09-14

CAINC4: Personal income and employment by major component, Wallowa County ↗

U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis

County rows for Wallowa County, Oregon: personal income ($509.3 million); personal current transfer receipts ($147.9 million); dividends, interest and rent ($108.1 million); government and government enterprises earnings ($79.7 million); farm earnings ($24.9 million); per capita personal income ($67,705)

2024 estimates, released 2025
Checked 2026-10-11

Wallowa County audits and adopted budgets ↗

Wallowa County

Fiscal 2025 audit: actual revenue, all funds ($11.5 million); transient lodging tax receipts ($612,998). Adopted budget: budgeted full-time-equivalent positions, 72.35 to 62.71

Fiscal 2025 audit; fiscal 2026 adopted budget
Checked 2026-10-11

Rural Capacity Index, May 2026 data download ↗

Headwaters Economics

County sheet, Wallowa County, Oregon: index 54.8 of 100; rank among Oregon counties computed from the same sheet, 29th of 36

May 2026
Checked 2026-10-11

Oregon Travel Impacts, 2025 ↗

Travel Oregon; prepared by Dean Runyan Associates

County table, Wallowa County: visitor spending, 2025 ($38.7 million)

April 2026
Checked 2026-10-11

Payments in Lieu of Taxes, county payments, 2025 and 2026 ↗

U.S. Department of the Interior

Wallowa County, Oregon: $690,395 (2025); $1,497,560 (2026)

2025 and 2026 payment years
Checked 2026-10-11

Conversations in Wallowa County, October 2–8, 2026 ↗

The Wallowa Record

Private field notes from about twenty recorded or noted conversations in Enterprise, Joseph and Wallowa, plus the October 4 candidate forum at Cloverleaf Hall; themes counted by how many people raised them without being asked

October 2026
Checked 2026-10-12

Buyer origins 2020–2025 and the market in October 2026 ↗

Ruby Peak Realty, Enterprise

Sales cards (RMLS broker-involved sales) shared by one of the office’s principal brokers, October 2–3 and 8, 2026: 236 of 486 buyers from the county or returning (48.5 percent), western Oregon 22.8 percent; 156 ‘investment or second home’ purchases 2020–2024. Market figures from a principal broker, October 5 and 7, 2026: 79 residential listings, 17 between $250,000 and $350,000; rents about $1,200 (two bedrooms) and $1,600–$1,800 (family house); a Joseph subdivision lot with utilities about $100,000; new construction quoted at about $375 a square foot

October 2026
Checked 2026-10-08

Election: Wallowa County voters repeal Greater Idaho meeting requirement ↗

Wallowa County Chieftain

Election-night count on Measure 32-011: 2,044 to 1,319; the 2023 measure required meetings every February and August; the last required meeting was February 25, 2026

May 19, 2026
Checked 2026-10-13

Marginal ‘Greater Idaho’ vote tightens to single digits in Wallowa County, OR ↗

KOIN

After the final count the measure was seven votes ahead

June 2023
Checked 2026-10-13

Joseph Community Dinners serve record breaking 385 meals ↗

Elkhorn Media Group, from a Joseph Mainstreet release

Monday Night Community Dinners at The Place, 303 S. Lake Street, Joseph, February through April; about 125 at the first dinner in 2024, around 250 in the second year, more than 385 meals on March 23, 2026; run by the Joseph United Methodist Church congregation under Pastor Beth Estock, with sponsors named

March 30, 2026
Checked 2026-10-13

1970 Census of Population, Volume 1, Part 39, Oregon: Table 120, Educational and Family Characteristics for Counties ↗

U.S. Bureau of the Census

Page 39-250, Wallowa County column, school enrollment: total enrolled 3 to 34 years old 1,719; nursery school 7; kindergarten 17 (public 12); elementary, grades 1 to 8, 1,014 (public 998); high school, grades 1 to 4, 614 (public 594); college 67. Total population 6,247 from Table 119, page 39-247

1973 (data as of April 1, 1970)
Checked 2026-10-14

Rural America’s Struggle to Access Private Capital ↗

Center on Rural Innovation, sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

The report page and the May 28, 2025 press release: rural businesses are 12 percent of U.S. businesses and receive less than 1 percent of venture capital; rural community banks fell from 5,029 in 1994 to 2,618 in 2024

May 2025
Checked 2026-10-15

Evaluating State and Local Business Incentives ↗

Cailin Slattery and Owen Zidar, NBER working paper 26603; Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2020

Page 13: more than 30 percent of establishments with over 1,000 employees receive discretionary subsidies, less than 0.2 percent of those under 250; $178.4 million on average for about 1,500 promised jobs

January 2020
Checked 2026-10-15

State Small Business Credit Initiative: Annual Report 2022–2023, and Business Oregon’s SSBCI program page ↗

U.S. Department of the Treasury; Business Oregon

Treasury report pages 4 and 6: about 9 percent of transactions, $197 million, reached rural businesses. Business Oregon (oregon.gov/biz/programs/SSBCI): $83.5 million to Oregon, a Credit Enhancement Fund insuring bank and credit-union loans, and a Community Re-lender Fund buying into loans by CDFIs, economic development districts, tribal governments and nonprofits

2024; state page read October 15, 2026
Checked 2026-10-15

Research and public records

Oregon active business registrations ↗

Oregon Secretary of State

Principal-place-of-business records only. A registration is not evidence of a currently operating storefront. Community names are not a substitute for a county-boundary match.

registry
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: registry

Wallowa County government ↗

Wallowa County

official
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: county

Property assessment and official records ↗

Wallowa County Assessor

official
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: assessor

State forestry tax-lot display ↗

Oregon Department of Forestry

Display-only service. Record queries are not enabled. County data currency varies; this is not a historical boundary reconstruction.

geographic
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: parcels

Oregon assessor map viewer ↗

Oregon Department of Revenue

geographic
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: ormap

Wallowa County communities and directory ↗

Wallowa County Chamber of Commerce

organization
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: chamber

Enterprise community introduction ↗

Wallowa County Chamber of Commerce

organization
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: enterprise-town

Joseph community introduction ↗

Wallowa County Chamber of Commerce

organization
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: joseph-town

Lostine community introduction ↗

Wallowa County Chamber of Commerce

organization
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: lostine-town

Troy, Flora, and the Grande Ronde ↗

Wallowa County Chamber of Commerce

organization
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: north-county

Enterprise city government ↗

City of Enterprise

official
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: enterprise-city

Enterprise buildings: library and OK Theatre ↗

City of Enterprise

official
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: enterprise-history

Enterprise School District 21 ↗

Enterprise School District

official
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: enterprise-school

Writing and the West ↗

Fishtrap

organization
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: fishtrap

Brewery and brewpub in Enterprise ↗

Terminal Gravity Brewing

organization
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: terminal

Hospital, clinics, and senior living ↗

Wallowa County Health Care District

official
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: hospital

Stewardship, education, and rural livelihoods ↗

Wallowa Resources

organization
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: resources

Support and contact information ↗

Safe Harbors

organization
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: safe-harbors

Working landscapes and the East Moraine ↗

Wallowa Land Trust

organization
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: landtrust

Testimony on working agricultural lands, March 14, 2023 ↗

Kathleen Ackley / Oregon Legislature

official
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: ackley

Joseph city government ↗

City of Joseph

official
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: joseph-city

Joseph Public Library ↗

City of Joseph

official
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: joseph-library

Joseph Charter School ↗

Joseph School District

official
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: joseph-school

Arts, learning, and gathering ↗

Josephy Center for Arts and Culture

organization
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: josephy

Library collections and exhibits ↗

Josephy Library of Western History and Culture

archive
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: josephy-library

The Archivists come to town, July 4, 2012 ↗

Rich Wandschneider / Josephy Library

archive
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: archives-essay

Audio and visual archives ↗

Josephy Library

Recordings remain with their original host. Links are provided; republication permission and full checked transcripts have not been obtained.

oral history
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: recordings

First Bank of Joseph and Wallowa County Museum ↗

Wallowa County Museum

official
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: museum

First Bank of Joseph historic-site record ↗

Oregon State Historic Preservation Office

official
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: bank-register

Valley Bronze: production and history ↗

Valley Bronze of Oregon

organization
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: valley-bronze

Valley Bronze foundry location ↗

Joseph Chamber of Commerce

organization
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: bronze-address

Stein Distillery: from grain to glass ↗

Stein Distillery

organization
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: stein

Joseph tasting room ↗

Stein Distillery

organization
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: stein-location

Chocolate making in Joseph ↗

Arrowhead Chocolates

organization
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: arrowhead

Natural History Discovery Center ↗

Wallowology

The site announces that the center is closed for the 2026 season while presentations continue. Older opening information also remains on the page.

organization
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: wallowology

Wallowa County historical collections ↗

Wallowa History Center

archive
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: history-center

History and continuing cultural life ↗

Nez Perce Tribe

official
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: tribe

The Wallowa homeland today ↗

Nez Perce Wallowa Homeland

organization
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: homeland

The history of the Homeland organization ↗

Nez Perce Wallowa Homeland

organization
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: homeland-history

Wallowa County historical records inventory ↗

Oregon State Archives

archive
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: county-inventory

Wallowa Lake documentary photograph, September 2017 ↗

Rick Obst / Wikimedia Commons

archive
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: lake-photo

Enterprise postcard, circa 1912 ↗

Unknown photographer / Wikimedia Commons

archive
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: enterprise-photo

East First Street in Joseph, April 2013 ↗

Visitor7 / Wikimedia Commons

archive
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: joseph-photo

Address geocoding, current public benchmark ↗

U.S. Census Bureau

Coordinates are interpolated from address ranges, not surveyed building or parcel locations. Acquired September 13, 2026.

geographic
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: census-geocoder

Parish introduction and history ↗

St. Katherine of Siena Catholic Church

organization
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: st-katherine

Wallowa Lake's East Moraine: Securing a Community Legacy ↗

Wallowa Land Trust

Provider-hosted YouTube recording. Original channel and collection context are recorded on the film page. This 2019 campaign film predates the January 2020 public acquisition. Follow the East Moraine record for the subsequent history; the campaign’s proposals are part of that earlier moment.

organization
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: film-east-moraine-community-legacy

Tamkaliks Film ↗

Nez Perce Wallowa Homeland

Provider-hosted YouTube recording. Original channel and collection context are recorded on the film page. Published by Nez Perce Wallowa Homeland, an independent nonprofit organization. Its inclusion does not imply a partnership with the atlas or authorship by the Nez Perce tribal government.

organization
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: film-tamkaliks-film

About us: the 1940 building, the carillon and the co-moderators ↗

Enterprise Community Congregational Church

organization
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: bigbrown-about

Who we are: the National Association of Congregational Christian Churches ↗

Enterprise Community Congregational Church

organization
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: bigbrown-who

Living life in recovery: open meetings ↗

Enterprise Community Congregational Church

organization
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: bigbrown-recovery

Outreach: 2025 events calendar ↗

Enterprise Community Congregational Church

A dated 2025 calendar; the events are cited as that year’s calendar, not as standing programs.

organization
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: bigbrown-outreach

Chamber member listing: Enterprise Community Congregational Church ↗

Wallowa County Chamber of Commerce

member-supplied listing text hosted by the county chamber, a private organization; used only to corroborate an address or a self-description.

organization
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: bigbrown-chamber

Hawkins Sisters: Minam Stories ↗

Josephy Center

Provider-hosted YouTube recording. Original channel and collection context are recorded on the film page. Date conflict: YouTube lists an upload on September 12, 2025, while the publisher’s description labels the talk August 26, 2026. The recording date needs confirmation.

organization
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: film-hawkins-sisters-minam-stories

Building Community Series: Main Street Business ↗

Josephy Center

Provider-hosted YouTube recording. Original channel and collection context are recorded on the film page. The publisher describes this as an April 2025 conversation in its Building Community series. Business details reflect that discussion and may have changed.

organization
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: film-main-street-business

Wenix Red Elk "Áwtni Tk''átat (First Foods)" ↗

Nez Perce Wallowa Homeland

Provider-hosted YouTube recording. Original channel and collection context are recorded on the film page. Listen to the speaker’s account in the original recording. The atlas’s introductory text is editorial context, not a transcript or quotation.

organization
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: film-wenix-red-elk-first-foods

Building Community Series: Religion ↗

Josephy Center

Provider-hosted YouTube recording. Original channel and collection context are recorded on the film page. The publisher dates the discussion June 10, 2025. This is one conversation, not an inventory of the county’s faiths or a statement on behalf of every member of a community.

organization
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: film-building-community-religion

Building Community Series: Healthcare ↗

Josephy Center

Provider-hosted YouTube recording. Original channel and collection context are recorded on the film page. A recorded 2025 discussion. Follow current service records and providers for today’s contact details and availability.

organization
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: film-building-community-healthcare

Bob Webb: Preserving our History & Family Stories ↗

Josephy Center

Provider-hosted YouTube recording. Original channel and collection context are recorded on the film page. The publisher dates the talk November 18, 2025; the video was uploaded in March 2026. Those are separate dates.

organization
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: film-bob-webb-family-stories

Workforce Housing - Wallowa County Community Meeting (8/31/2023) ↗

Wallowa Resources

Provider-hosted YouTube recording. Original channel and collection context are recorded on the film page. Recorded August 31, 2023. Proposed projects and plans in this meeting must not be read as current approvals or completed developments.

organization
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: film-workforce-housing-community-meeting

Lostine Canyon Forest Health ↗

Wallowa Resources

Provider-hosted YouTube recording. Original channel and collection context are recorded on the film page. An earlier published film, uploaded in 2020. It does not establish the current condition of every part of the canyon.

organization
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: film-lostine-canyon-forest-health

Woodlands & Watersheds Festival 2024 ↗

Wallowa Resources

Provider-hosted YouTube recording. Original channel and collection context are recorded on the film page. This recording concerns the 2024 festival and was uploaded in 2025. It is not an announcement of an upcoming event.

organization
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: film-woodlands-watersheds-festival

Wallowa Lake Kokanee ↗

Wallowa Resources

Provider-hosted YouTube recording. Original channel and collection context are recorded on the film page. Uploaded in 2021. No caption track was listed when checked; a verified transcript has not yet been added to the atlas.

organization
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: film-wallowa-lake-kokanee

Building footprints · 2021 study ↗

Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries

DOGAMI O-22-03: 9,703 footprint polygons and 9,708 assessment points are distinct inventories from the 2021 risk study. Building characteristics are historical study inputs, not current assessments.

geographic
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: map-buildings

Road centerlines ↗

US Census Bureau

2025 TIGER/Line release, selected or clipped to the county. Release year does not establish the observation date of every feature.

geographic
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: map-roads

Lakes and water areas ↗

US Census Bureau

2025 TIGER/Line release, selected or clipped to the county. Release year does not establish the observation date of every feature.

geographic
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: map-water

Streams and water lines ↗

US Census Bureau

2025 TIGER/Line release, selected or clipped to the county. Release year does not establish the observation date of every feature.

geographic
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: map-streams

School districts ↗

US Census Bureau

2025 TIGER/Line release, selected or clipped to the county. Release year does not establish the observation date of every feature.

geographic
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: map-schools

Mineral assay locations ↗

Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries

DOGAMI assay location records. They do not establish mineral ownership, reserves, or allowed extraction.

geographic
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: map-assays

Surface-water rights ↗

Oregon Water Resources Department

OWRD places of use, clipped to the county. Coverage omits some irrigation-district and other rights. A mapped water right is not proof of current availability or transferability. Holder names and private contact fields are omitted.

geographic
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: map-water-rights-surface

Building risk-study points ↗

Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries

9,708 building points from the 2021 risk assessment. Population estimates, private owner fields, and historical map-taxlot identifiers are not exposed.

geographic
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: map-building-assessment

County boundary ↗

Wallowa County

County-published public service. Service edit date is not a legal effective date.

geographic
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: map-county

City limits ↗

Wallowa County

County-published public service. Service edit date is not a legal effective date.

geographic
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: map-cities

Urban growth boundaries ↗

Wallowa County

County-published public service. Service edit date is not a legal effective date.

geographic
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: map-ugb

Fire districts ↗

Wallowa County

County-published public service. Service edit date is not a legal effective date.

geographic
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: map-fire-districts

Wilderness areas ↗

Wallowa County

County-published public service. Service edit date is not a legal effective date.

geographic
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: map-wilderness

Livestock districts ↗

Wallowa County

County-published public service. Service edit date is not a legal effective date.

geographic
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: map-livestock

Voting precincts ↗

Wallowa County

County-published public service. Service edit date is not a legal effective date.

geographic
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: map-precincts

Enterprise zoning · 2023 ↗

Oregon Department of Land Conservation and Development / GEO

Enterprise coverage only. Joseph, Lostine, Wallowa and unincorporated county are not provided in this public statewide release. Consult current local zoning before determining allowed uses.

geographic
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: map-zoning

Mineral occurrences and historic workings ↗

Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries

MILO historical mineral occurrences, prospects and mines. Presence is not evidence of an economically recoverable deposit, mineral ownership, or permission to mine.

geographic
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: map-minerals

Public land management ↗

Oregon Department of Forestry / GEO

Public-land management compilation. A management polygon does not establish public access or the ownership of subsurface minerals.

geographic
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: map-management

Mapped geologic faults ↗

Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries

DOGAMI OGDC 8 mapped fault traces. The public layer does not establish activity age, earthquake probability, or a site-specific setback.

geographic
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: map-faults

County taxlots ↗

Wallowa County

All 8,611 features in the county public service. OBJECTID identifies the source feature; lot suffixes repeat and are not complete assessor IDs. Area is calculated from geometry. Service-wide edit date is not an individual boundary survey date.

geographic
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: map-parcels

Census tracts ↗

US Census Bureau

2025 TIGER/Line release, selected or clipped to the county. Release year does not establish the observation date of every feature.

geographic
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: map-tracts

Groundwater rights ↗

Oregon Water Resources Department

OWRD places of use, clipped to the county. Coverage omits some irrigation-district and other rights. A mapped water right is not proof of current availability or transferability. Holder names and private contact fields are omitted.

geographic
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: map-water-rights-ground

Geologic units · OGDC 8 ↗

Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries

DOGAMI Oregon Geologic Data Compilation release 8. County-clipped bedrock and surficial units compiled from maps of differing scales and dates. Not a site investigation or a mineral-rights inventory.

geographic
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: map-geology

Soil map units · SSURGO ↗

USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service

USDA NRCS Soil Data Access county-intersecting map units, clipped to the county boundary. Participating survey catalogs last restored August–September 2025; field observations vary in date. Map-unit summaries can contain several soil components. They are not parcel-specific testing, zoning, septic approval, or a development determination.

geographic
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: map-soils

Wetlands and deepwater habitats ↗

US Fish and Wildlife Service

USFWS National Wetlands Inventory, May 2026 state release clipped to Wallowa County. Mapping imagery dates vary; see the wetland mapping dates layer. Not a jurisdictional delineation, permit decision, or evidence that unmarked land is dry.

geographic
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: map-wetlands

Mapped riparian areas ↗

US Fish and Wildlife Service

USFWS National Wetlands Inventory, May 2026 state release clipped to Wallowa County. Mapping imagery dates vary; see the wetland mapping dates layer. Not a jurisdictional delineation, permit decision, or evidence that unmarked land is dry.

geographic
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: map-riparian

Wetland mapping dates ↗

US Fish and Wildlife Service

Project metadata accompanying the May 2026 USFWS National Wetlands Inventory download. Image year and scale describe source evidence, not a field inspection of an individual parcel.

geographic
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: map-wetland-surveys

Lostine Pharmacy — Oregon Historic Sites Database ↗

Oregon State Historic Preservation Office

Building description, medical and lodge history; listed November 24, 2014. Historic uses are not current service listings.

official
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: lostine-pharmacy-nr

Incorporated Cities: Lostine ↗

Oregon Secretary of State

Incorporated December 28, 1903; official city profile.

official
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: lostine-bluebook

Lostine River: Telling the Restoration Story ↗

Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board

Upper Lostine Minimum Flow Agreement, project history and links to technical evidence.

official
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: lostine-flows

Telling the Restoration Story: The Lostine River ↗

Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board

Interactive maps, video, hatchery and habitat-restoration context.

official
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: lostine-storymap

Fisheries Resources Management ↗

Nez Perce Tribe

The Tribe’s own description of its fisheries program, including Lostine supplementation.

official
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: nez-perce-fisheries

Restored Coho Salmon Run Supports Tribal, Sport Fisheries in Northeast Oregon ↗

NOAA Fisheries

2020 report. A dated account of a return, not a current run count or fishing regulation.

official
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: lostine-coho

Lostine River — Wild and Scenic Rivers ↗

National Wild and Scenic Rivers System

Headwaters, glaciated valley and fisheries description.

official
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: lostine-wild-scenic

Southfork Grange #605 ↗

Southfork Grange

Organization’s mission, educational activity and community lunches.

organization
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: southfork-grange

Lostine Farmer’s Market ↗

Southfork Grange

Page advertises its 2026 season. Verify schedules with the organizer before travel.

organization
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: lostine-market

City of Lostine — events and meeting notices ↗

City of Lostine

Includes explicitly dated 2017 library, recycling and council notices. These are historical records, not current events.

official
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: lostine-civic-events

M. Crow & Company General Store ↗

Travel Oregon

Profile dates establishment to 1907 and ownership transition to 2013. Dirty Freehub’s description instead says 1906; founding date needs original business records.

organization
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: mcrow-profile

The M Crow General Store ↗

Dirty Freehub

Six-minute film listing. The provider hosts the recording; acquisition status is tracked separately in the research collection.

organization
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: mcrow-film-page

History Tidbit: Soda Fountains ↗

Marilyn Hulse / Wallowa History Center

Written April 2024, posted July 26, 2024. Local retrospective; store identifications refer to the author’s account.

archive
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: whc-soda

History Tidbits: Lettuce Mania ↗

Marilyn Hulse / Wallowa History Center

Written May 2023, posted November 8, 2023. Describes the 1923–1939 lettuce experiment.

archive
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: whc-lettuce

History Tidbits: Wallowa County Diversity ↗

Marilyn Hulse / Wallowa History Center

Written March 2023, posted November 8, 2023. Community-history account, not a census of current identities.

archive
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: whc-diversity

History Tidbits: The Petition of 1901 ↗

Marilyn Hulse / Wallowa History Center

Written October 2023, posted December 7, 2023. Attribute the account; the original petition and federal response require further research.

archive
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: whc-petition

History Tidbits: Nez Perce in Lower Valley ↗

Marilyn Hulse / Wallowa History Center

January 3, 2024; describes Benjamin Curtis’s photographic collection. Photographs remain with the holder pending item-level permissions.

archive
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: whc-lower-valley

Chinese Massacre at Deep Creek ↗

Greg Nokes / Oregon Encyclopedia

Updated June 1, 2026. Distinguishes evidence, disputed victim totals, court records and memorial history.

archive
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: deep-creek-nokes

Resources and Research Tools ↗

Wallowa History Center

Directory of newspapers, Horner papers, historical works and libraries. A collection directory is not item-level acquisition.

archive
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: whc-research-tools

The Wallowa Story ↗

The Wallowa Story / Wallowa History Center

1987 narrated slide presentation restored and screened in 2022; film, transcript and slide links. Treat as a historical interpretation.

archive
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: wallowa-story-restored

The Wallowa History Center and “Lessons from the Findleys” ↗

Rich Wandschneider / Josephy Library

May 20, 2026; a named author’s interpretation of the Findley book. Original book and newspaper series are separate research targets.

archive
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: findley-review

People Like Us ↗

People Like Us

Organization’s own description of rural 2SLGBTQIA+ support; September 2026 event notice read on September 13, 2026. An event notice is not confirmation that it occurred.

organization
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: people-like-us

Enterprise Community Congregational Church: welcome, worship and Bible study times ↗

Enterprise Community Congregational Church

organization
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: bigbrown-home

First Presbyterian Church, Lostine ↗

Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)

Denominational directory record. Historical activity and current worship times need separate sources.

organization
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: lostine-presbyterian

Destination Oregon: M. Crow General Store in Lostine ↗

Central Oregon Daily News

Provider-hosted YouTube recording. Original channel and collection context are recorded on the film page. This is a published feature about the store; it is not a current inventory of services or an Atlas interview.

organization
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: film-mcrow-destination

The Wallowa Story ↗

Wallowa History Center

Provider-hosted YouTube recording. Original channel and collection context are recorded on the film page. The hosting project links the complete transcript and annotated slides at https://www.thewallowastory.com/ . Read this as a historical interpretation made for the centennial, alongside later research.

organization
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: film-wallowa-story-1987

tamaalwit: natural law ↗

Nez Perce Wallowa Homeland

Provider-hosted YouTube recording. Original channel and collection context are recorded on the film page. The nonprofit presents this film in its own terms. Inclusion does not imply that the organization or any tribal government is a partner in the atlas.

organization
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: film-tamaalwit-natural-law

Hells Canyon Songs Project- Gary Eller ↗

Wallowa History Center

Provider-hosted YouTube recording. Original channel and collection context are recorded on the film page. This is a historical and musical presentation at the original publisher. Caption availability and publication date have not been confirmed.

organization
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: film-hells-canyon-songs

David Weaver- The Ku Klux Klan Comes to Wallowa County 1920-1925 ↗

Wallowa History Center

Provider-hosted YouTube recording. Original channel and collection context are recorded on the film page. A historical examination of racist organizing, linked and published by Wallowa History Center. Its title’s dates describe the subject period, not the recording date.

organization
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: film-klan-wallowa-history

Oregon Historic Cemeteries and the 1879 Robbery of Old Chief Joseph’s Grave ↗

Wallowa History Center

Provider-hosted YouTube recording. Original channel and collection context are recorded on the film page. This historical presentation concerns grave desecration. The recording’s title and provider have been verified; a full transcript has not been acquired.

organization
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: film-cemeteries-old-joseph

The 1866-67 Survey of Wallowa County, Oregon and Nez Perce Resistance ↗

Wallowa History Center

Provider-hosted YouTube recording. Original channel and collection context are recorded on the film page. Linked and published by the Wallowa History Center. The historical subject dates are distinct from the recording’s publication date, which is unconfirmed.

organization
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: film-survey-and-resistance

Federal subsurface mineral interests ↗

Bureau of Land Management, Oregon State Office

BLM federal subsurface-interest codes. These are distinct from surface ownership and mineral occurrences. None means no federal mineral interest in this compilation, not that no private or state mineral rights exist. Consult Master Title Plats and title records for a specific interest. Displayed acres are computed from county-clipped geometry, not recorded legal acreage. Source observation/update date is unspecified.

geographic
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: map-federal-minerals

Wallowa County Economic Opportunity Analysis ↗

Wallowa County

2021. Printed pages 25–28: vision, housing and economic goals. The analysis discusses entrepreneurship, working lands and housing alongside modest growth. Its proposals include rural housing opportunities as well as support for communities; it should not be read as agreement on one housing strategy.

official
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: economic-opportunity

East Moraine Community Forest: acquisition and acreage ↗

Wallowa Land Trust

organization
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: east-moraine-forest

East Moraine conservation easement, January 2023 ↗

Wallowa Land Trust

Organization’s account of the signed easement; not a parcel-specific legal interpretation.

organization
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: east-moraine-easement

Historical mining case locations · closed ↗

Bureau of Land Management, Oregon State Office

BLM MiningClaims closed-case layer, distinct from the smaller HUB recent-change extract. PLSS-derived case locations are often broader than staked boundaries; geocoding can omit cases. These closed cases do not establish current ownership or extraction rights. Claimant names are not acquired. Displayed acres are computed from county-clipped geometry, not recorded legal acreage. Source observation/update date is unspecified.

geographic
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: map-historical-mining-claims

Surface management & ownership classes ↗

Bureau of Land Management, Oregon State Office

BLM compilation of surface status. BLM states that ownership records outside federal lands are incomplete. Private land is classified without naming individuals or businesses; agency categories describe mapped status, not a title opinion, public access, or parcel-level beneficial ownership. Displayed acres are computed from county-clipped geometry, not recorded legal acreage. Source observation/update date is unspecified.

geographic
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: map-surface-status

Casting and fabrication services ↗

Valley Bronze of Oregon

organization
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: bronze-services

Steve Parks: bronze artistry and foundry operating ↗

Oregon Folklife Network, University of Oregon

Undated profile; evidence of the trade and named operations, not a current operating census.

archive
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: parks-folklife

About Timber Bronze ↗

Timber Bronze

organization
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: timber-bronze

Classic Square Doorbell: materials and process ↗

Timber Bronze

organization
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: timber-bronze-process

Shelley Curtiss artist profile ↗

Curtiss Studios

organization
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: curtiss-studio

Categorized membership directory ↗

Wallowa County Chamber of Commerce

Overlapping directory categories, not an exhaustive county business inventory or NAICS classifications.

organization
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: chamber-industries

Wallowa County annual employment and wages, 2022–2025 ↗

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

QCEW covered payroll employment. Suppressed values are unknown, not zero; establishments are not firms.

official
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: qcew-wallowa

Oregon Voices: Wallowa County ↗

The Ford Family Foundation

Survey began in 2021; summary issued in 2023. Pages 1–2: sample and themes; pages 3–7: responses. The summary combines 86 respondents: 77 from the random-household phase and 9 from an engagement phase. It records appreciation for landscape and neighbors alongside concerns about everyday services. These are respondents’ experiences, not a vote by the whole county.

organization
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: oregon-voices

Nez Perce Wal’áwa Homeland strategic plan ↗

Nez Perce Wal’áwa Homeland

Adopted 2023. Presence and belonging; 10-, 30- and 100-year horizons. The organization’s plan connects homecoming with family life, work, cultural practice and stewardship over generations. It is a nonprofit’s own plan; the organization and sovereign tribal governments are distinct.

organization
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: homeland-plan

Wallowa Lake Methodist Camp: accommodations, seasons and directors ↗

Wallowa Lake United Methodist Camp

organization
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: wallowa-lake-camp

Wallowa Lake ceremony honors return of land to Nez Perce ↗

Oregon-Idaho Conference, United Methodist Church · Greg Nelson

August 2, 2018; updated August 8. Account by the transferring institution. The fisheries management described is the plan at transfer, not a present-day habitat assessment.

organization
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: river-return-2018

Wallowa UMC returned to the Nez Perce Tribe ↗

Oregon-Idaho Conference, United Methodist Church · Kristen Caldwell

April 30, 2021. Reports transfer of keys and deed, including the church lot and a lot behind it; future uses remained under consideration. Does not establish current use or imply a partnership with this atlas.

organization
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: church-return-2021

Three minutes with … Justin Doherty ↗

Wallowa County Chieftain · Historic Oregon Newspapers, University of Oregon Libraries

February 7, 2018, page A9. Published interview, headed Public Works, City of Joseph. Employment and volunteer roles refer to the interview date. Quotation retains the speaker’s wording; no present-day employment claim.

oral history
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: doherty-interview-2018

Wallowa County Artist Eugene Hayes ↗

Wallowa History Center · Marilyn Hulse

Undated local historical retrospective. Describes commercial signs, advertising montages, maps and commissions. The location of a surviving artwork does not establish public access or reproduction permission.

archive
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: gene-hayes-commercial-art

Fishtrap: Our History ↗

Fishtrap

Organization’s undated retrospective: Rich Wandschneider, Kim Stafford and Alvin Josephy organized the first Wallowa Lake gathering in 1988. The conference theme is quoted as published.

organization
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: fishtrap-origins

Library district fails ↗

Wallowa County Chieftain · Paul Wahl; Historic Oregon Newspapers

May 23, 2018, page A1. Contemporary report of the May 15 vote on Measure 32-41, funding background and arguments on each side; not a current library-service directory.

archive
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: library-vote-2018

Redistributing the county library collection · Books, continued from A1 ↗

Wallowa County Chieftain · Historic Oregon Newspapers

August 8, 2018, page A9, Books continuation. Distinguishes transferred literacy kits from proposed book placements and storage. Existing city libraries are distinct from the closing county library.

archive
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: library-collection-2018

Harney County Small Diameter Tree Economic Summit · Wallowa Resources case study ↗

High Desert Partnership · Dr. Brenda Smith

Summit October 8–9, 2014, Burns, Oregon; page 8, Collaborative Operating Model for Underutilized Wood, Nils Christoffersen. A contemporaneous summary of the presenter’s account, not an audited financial statement. Market destinations and product mix are historical.

organization
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: small-wood-summit-2014

Enterprise projects: EM&M building ↗

Working Homes LLC

Publication: undated. Locator: City of Enterprise; EM&M Building; paragraphs 1–3. Owner’s account; last remaining affordable claim is not an independently tested inventory.

organization
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: living-emmm-owner

Working Homes advances housing, building preservation projects in Wallowa County ↗

Shannon Weidemann (McKone), Elkhorn Media Group

Publication: 2026-09-02. Locator: EM&M paragraphs and five-item Current upgrades list. Separate publication, but project account centers on Working Homes; no tenant interviews or independent completion inspection stated.

organization
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: living-emmm-2026

Joseph United Methodist Church: worship, community dinners and land acknowledgement ↗

Joseph United Methodist Church

organization
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: joseph-umc

Neighbors Gather Together After Extreme Hailstorm in Wallowa ↗

Rural Organizing Project; Kelli Bosak byline, Sidra/ROP sign-off

Publication: 2022-09-07. Locator: Opening update; reproduced appeal headed Hailstorm-Stricken Town of Wallowa Needs Help!, created August 14, 2022. Updated December 8, 2023. Fundraiser republication is not independent reporting. Damage/FEMA statements are organizer assertions, not an official eligibility determination.

organization
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: living-hail-appeal

Eastern Oregon town damaged by hail storm recovers together ↗

OPB Think Out Loud; Sage Van Wing; Dave Miller interviews Gary Hulse

Publication: 2022-08-25. Locator: Transcript: insurance discussion; question beginning What have you already seen; Hulse answer on vouchers and plywood. Computer-created, volunteer-edited transcript; Hulse’s estimates remain attributed. Audio duration 10:46; quotation timecodes not checked.

organization
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: living-hail-radio

State sends millions to Eastern Oregon to deal with storm damage, pollution ↗

Antonio Sierra, OPB

Publication: 2022-09-29. Locator: Opening Wallowa section, before Nitrates and flooding. Distinguish approved funding from completed repairs. Hulse’s testimony overlaps his earlier interview; legislative decision reporting adds a different evidence function.

organization
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: living-hail-funding

Wallowa County Community Food Assessment ↗

Joshua Russell, RARE AmeriCorps; NEOEDD and Oregon Food Bank

Publication: 2012. Locator: Printed/PDF pp. 7–8 methodology; 12–13 6 Ranch; 16–18 processing and distribution. Year established internally by 2012 survey/report context; 2023 URL is upload path. Survey 133 respondents was not a probability sample. Regulations and businesses described historically, not current guidance.

organization
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: living-food-assessment

Growing the 16% ↗

Western Organization of Resource Councils

Publication: undated. Locator: Printed/PDF p. 21, Stafford’s upgrade from custom exempt to USDA-certified; p. 2 publisher statement. Advocacy network recounts work by member Oregon Rural Action. Undated PDF, with summer 2012 event; not independent financial or employment audit.

organization
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: living-food-stafford

Workforce Introduction ↗

Robert Barclay et al., Flex Monitoring Team

Publication: 2025-03. Locator: Printed/PDF p. 5, opening Wallowa Memorial paragraph; p. 4 Quality of Life. Short case study, no item-level source for Wallowa interview or outcome statistics. PDF extraction contains an unrelated 2021 text layer; visible March 2025 title governs.

official
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: living-hospital-childcare

Enterprise Mercantile & Milling Company Building: National Register nomination ↗

Sally Donovan and Adrienne Donovan-Boyd; National Park Service

Nomination received January 2012. PDF pages 15–16, City and County Intervention; section 7, architectural description. Historical reconstruction using newspaper articles and commissioner minutes; those underlying items were not separately examined for this edition. Building photographs credited to the preparers, summer/fall 2010; republication permission unverified.

archive
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: living-emmm-nomination

Where’s the grass-fed beef? ↗

Cory Carman / PERC

February 24, 2011. First-person essay; paragraphs on institutional customers, processing costs, and distribution. Business experience and price changes are author-reported, not an independent financial audit.

organization
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: living-carman-2011

About us: three ways to buy Carman Ranch beef ↗

Carman Ranch

Undated page examined September 13, 2026. Locators: Get Carman Ranch → Carman Ranch Direct, Cow Share, Wholesale. Producer description; no independent verification of profitability or environmental performance. Images remain linked at source, not licensed for republication.

organization
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: living-carman-channels

Honor UMCOR Sunday & OR-ID Disaster Response on March 15 ↗

Oregon-Idaho Conference, United Methodist Church

February 18, 2026. Locator: OR-ID Conference UMCOR response by the numbers, October 2022–April 2023 entry. Reports a $10,000 Wallowa grant, case manager serving 324 households, and 30 cases closed. Service counts are not a verified number of repaired homes; statewide totals are not Wallowa totals.

organization
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: living-hail-2026

Wallowa Memorial Hospital: 2025 community health assessment summary ↗

Oregon Office of Rural Health / Wallowa Memorial Hospital

2025 assessment; PDF pages 1–2, priorities, housing and care access. Survey estimates and key-informant perspectives, not a housing inventory or a referendum. Summary combines data from different reference years.

official
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: living-health-2025

Wallowa County QuickFacts: housing, population and business measures ↗

U.S. Census Bureau

Read September 13, 2026. Locators: Age and Sex, Housing, Income & Poverty, Businesses. Age figures use V2025; housing costs/income are 2020–2024 estimates in 2024 dollars; nonemployer counts are 2023. Median gross rent is not a current asking rent. Web page examined; direct archival fetch returned 403.

official
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: living-census-2025

First Baptist Church of Enterprise: welcome and service times ↗

First Baptist Church of Enterprise

organization
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: fbc-enterprise-home

Connect with us: location, address and office hours ↗

First Baptist Church of Enterprise

organization
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: fbc-enterprise-connect

Membership: covenant community with other CB churches ↗

First Baptist Church of Enterprise

organization
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: fbc-enterprise-membership

Staff and leaders ↗

First Baptist Church of Enterprise

organization
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: fbc-enterprise-staff

First Baptist Church of Enterprise on Facebook ↗

First Baptist Church of Enterprise

Facebook page title and description as published by the organization; the page body is not readable without a login, and follower counts are not recorded.

organization
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: fbc-enterprise-facebook

Grace Lutheran Church, Enterprise: congregation, worship and mission support ↗

Grace Lutheran Church, Enterprise

A WordPress site whose dated content runs from 2015 to November 2020; current status is unverified.

organization
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: grace-lutheran-home

Contacts: church phone and email ↗

Grace Lutheran Church, Enterprise

The page also prints a personal phone number, which the atlas does not publish.

organization
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: grace-lutheran-contacts

Intermountain District church directory, January 23, 2024 ↗

Intermountain District, Church of the Nazarene

Denominational directory PDF. The pastor it names is not named on any church-run page, so the atlas does not record the name.

organization
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: nazarene-district-directory

Nazarene Church, Enterprise OR on Facebook ↗

Enterprise Church of the Nazarene

Facebook page title and description as published by the organization; the page body is not readable without a login, and follower counts are not recorded.

organization
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: nazarene-enterprise-facebook

Enterprise Christian Church: Sunday schedule and location ↗

Enterprise Christian Church

organization
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: ecc-home

About: an independent congregation of the Restoration Movement ↗

Enterprise Christian Church

organization
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: ecc-about

Our history, 1893 to 2023 ↗

Enterprise Christian Church

organization
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: ecc-history

Our team ↗

Enterprise Christian Church

organization
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: ecc-team

Summit Church: Sunday gathering, address and office hours ↗

Summit Church

organization
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: summit-home

Who we are ↗

Summit Church

organization
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: summit-who

Ministries ↗

Summit Church

organization
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: summit-ministries

Leadership and staff ↗

Summit Church

organization
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: summit-leadership

Summit Church, Oregon on Facebook ↗

Summit Church

Facebook page title and description as published by the organization; the page body is not readable without a login, and follower counts are not recorded.

organization
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: summit-facebook

Parish office: the two parishes, hours and pastor ↗

St. Katherine of Siena Catholic Church

organization
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: st-katherine-office

Mass and reconciliation schedule ↗

St. Katherine of Siena Catholic Church

organization
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: st-katherine-mass

Divine Earth Church: self-description ↗

Divine Earth Church

The organization’s own description of its practice, quoted as self-description.

organization
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: divine-earth-home

Meet the ministers ↗

Divine Earth Church

organization
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: divine-earth-about

Contact: mailing address ↗

Divine Earth Church

organization
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: divine-earth-contact

Church services and retreats ↗

Divine Earth Church

Dated 2026 events held outside Wallowa County; cited as the events page, not as local programs.

organization
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: divine-earth-services

Chamber member listing: Divine Earth Church ↗

Wallowa County Chamber of Commerce

member-supplied listing text hosted by the county chamber, a private organization; used only to corroborate an address or a self-description.

organization
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: divine-earth-chamber

About us: how KLAH came to be ↗

KLAH 100.3 FM

organization
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: klah-about

Contact us ↗

KLAH 100.3 FM

organization
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: klah-contact

Chamber member listing: 100.3 KLAH Radio ↗

Wallowa County Chamber of Commerce

member-supplied listing text hosted by the county chamber, a private organization; used only to corroborate an address or a self-description. The station’s own site gives no street address.

organization
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: klah-chamber

Enterprise Seventh-day Adventist Church: address, pastor, services and ministries ↗

Enterprise Seventh-day Adventist Church

Church-managed page on the North American Division’s hosting platform.

organization
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: enterprise-sda

Enterprise Ward: Sunday service ↗

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

organization
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: lds-enterprise-ward

Meetinghouse at 900 East Greenwood Street ↗

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

organization
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: lds-enterprise-meetinghouse

Locations directory ↗

Episcopal Diocese of Eastern Oregon

Diocesan directory listing; gives a phone and website only. The contact email it prints is personal and is not published.

organization
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: edeo-locations

St Patrick Episcopal Church, Enterprise, Oregon ↗

St. Patrick’s Episcopal Church

A Substack showing a tagline and a relative launch date, read September 14, 2026.

organization
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: st-patrick-substack

The Place: a community building and its rental terms ↗

Joseph United Methodist Church

Fee levels are transient and are summarized rather than quoted.

organization
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: joseph-umc-place

Get involved: gardens, the Christmas store, the Blessing Box and service projects ↗

Joseph United Methodist Church

organization
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: joseph-umc-involved

Worship: the sanctuary and third-Sunday intergenerational worship ↗

Joseph United Methodist Church

organization
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: joseph-umc-worship

Church directory entry: Joseph ↗

Oregon-Idaho Conference, United Methodist Church

organization
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: umoi-joseph-directory

Joseph Baptist Church on Facebook ↗

Joseph Baptist Church

Facebook page title and description as published by the organization; the page body is not readable without a login, and follower counts are not recorded. The description is truncated by Facebook.

organization
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: joseph-baptist-facebook

About us: 2009 start and the former youth center ↗

Point of Connection Ministries

organization
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: poc-about

Who we are: mission and purpose statements ↗

Point of Connection Ministries

organization
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: poc-who

Transformational Housing ↗

Point of Connection Ministries

Written in the future tense; the site’s last dated post is March 2018, so program status is unverified.

organization
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: poc-housing

Crazy Love Coffee ↗

Point of Connection Ministries

organization
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: poc-coffee

Contact ↗

Point of Connection Ministries

organization
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: poc-contact

Point of Connection Ministries on Facebook ↗

Point of Connection Ministries

Facebook page title and description as published by the organization; the page body is not readable without a login, and follower counts are not recorded.

organization
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: poc-facebook

A short history of Wallowa Lake Camp ↗

Wallowa Lake United Methodist Camp

The camp’s own account; it gives “the early 1920’s” rather than a year and spells the tribe’s name Nimiipoo.

organization
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: wallowa-lake-camp-history

Wallowa Assembly of God on Facebook ↗

Wallowa Assembly of God

Page intro, address and phone as published by the church; dated posts are not recorded.

organization
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: wallowa-ag-facebook

Wallowa Assembly of God Church on Faithlife ↗

Wallowa Assembly of God

organization
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: wallowa-ag-faithlife

Wallowa Assembly of God on YouTube ↗

Wallowa Assembly of God

organization
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: wallowa-ag-youtube

Church directory ↗

Oregon-Idaho Conference, United Methodist Church

Lists Joseph as the conference’s only Wallowa County church.

organization
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: umoi-churches

Wallowa UMC closes after 144 years of faithful ministry ↗

Oregon-Idaho Conference, United Methodist Church

September 1, 2020. The parent body’s account of the congregation’s history and closure; the lay pastor it names is not recorded here.

organization
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: umoi-wallowa-closes-2020

Christ Covenant Church: meeting place, worship time and confessions ↗

Christ Covenant Church

organization
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: ccc-home

Contact us: pastors and church office ↗

Christ Covenant Church

The page also lists elders and deacons by name; the atlas records only the two pastors.

organization
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: ccc-contact

Christ Covenant Church on Facebook ↗

Christ Covenant Church

Facebook page title and description as published by the organization; the page body is not readable without a login, and follower counts are not recorded.

organization
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: ccc-facebook

Winding Waters Clinic: founding, nonprofit and FQHC status ↗

Winding Waters Clinic

organization
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: ww-home

Mission and vision ↗

Winding Waters Clinic

organization
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: ww-mission

Locations and hours ↗

Winding Waters Clinic

organization
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: ww-locations

Public health partnership ↗

Winding Waters Clinic

organization
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: ww-public-health

Leadership team ↗

Winding Waters Clinic

organization
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: ww-leadership

Board of directors ↗

Winding Waters Clinic

organization
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: ww-board

Hospital: a 25-bed critical access hospital rebuilt in 2007 ↗

Wallowa County Health Care District

official
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: wchcd-hospital

Contact us: hospital and rehabilitation clinic addresses ↗

Wallowa County Health Care District

official
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: wchcd-contact

Who we are: executive team ↗

Wallowa County Health Care District

official
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: wchcd-who

Wallowa Memorial Hospital Auxiliary ↗

Wallowa County Health Care District

official
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: wchcd-auxiliary

Wallowa Memorial Medical Clinic: about ↗

Wallowa Memorial Medical Clinic

official
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: wmmc-about

Wallowa Memorial Medical Clinic: locations ↗

Wallowa Memorial Medical Clinic

official
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: wmmc-locations

Wallowa Valley Health Care Foundation ↗

Wallowa County Health Care District

official
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: wchcd-foundation

Healthy Futures Dinner Auction ↗

Wallowa County Health Care District

The announced 2026 auction date is transient.

official
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: wchcd-auction

Building Healthy Families: mission and self-description ↗

Building Healthy Families

organization
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: bhf-home

About: timeline from 1999 and board ↗

Building Healthy Families

organization
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: bhf-about

Contact: Wallowa and Union County office ↗

Building Healthy Families

organization
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: bhf-contact

Wallowa County programs and staff ↗

Building Healthy Families

organization
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: bhf-wallowa

Helping Hearts Child Advocacy Center ↗

Helping Hearts Child Advocacy Center

The golf tournament date on the page is transient.

organization
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: helping-hearts

Wallowa Valley Senior Living ↗

Wallowa Valley Senior Living

organization
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: wvsl-home

Wallowa Valley Senior Living: management and campus ↗

Wallowa County Health Care District

official
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: wchcd-senior-living

Enterprise Fire Department ↗

City of Enterprise

official
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: enterprise-fire

Grant award: handheld radios ↗

City of Enterprise

official
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: enterprise-fire-grant

Wallowa County 4-H ↗

OSU Extension Service

official
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: osu-4h-wallowa

OSU Extension Service, Wallowa County ↗

OSU Extension Service

official
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: osu-extension-wallowa

4-H at the Wallowa County Fair ↗

OSU Extension Service

official
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: osu-4h-fair

How to contribute ↗

OSU Extension Service

official
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: osu-4h-contribute

Wallowa County 4-H Oregon on Facebook ↗

Wallowa County 4-H

Facebook page title and description as published by the organization; the page body is not readable without a login, and follower counts are not recorded.

organization
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: wallowa-4h-facebook

Friends of the Library ↗

Wallowa Public Library

organization
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: wallowa-library-friends

Wallowa Valley Library Foundation on Facebook ↗

Wallowa Valley Library Foundation

Facebook page title and description as published by the organization; the page body is not readable without a login, and follower counts are not recorded. The description is truncated by Facebook.

organization
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: wvlf-facebook

Wallowa County Library ↗

Wallowa County

official
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: county-library

Enterprise Public Library: library home ↗

City of Enterprise

Lists hours of 10:00 to 6:00; the department page lists 9:30 to 5:30. Neither is recorded as authoritative.

official
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: enterprise-library-home

Enterprise Public Library: department page ↗

City of Enterprise

official
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: enterprise-library-page

Wallowa Public Library ↗

Wallowa Public Library

The page carries an unrelated injected paragraph, which suggests it is not closely maintained; the address and phone are corroborated by the county library page.

official
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: wallowa-library-home

Flora School Education Center ↗

Flora School Education Center

organization
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: flora-school-home

About us: Flora School Days ↗

Flora School Education Center

The announced 2027 date is transient; the event is described as annual.

organization
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: flora-school-about

North End Grange 820 Hall ↗

Oregon State Grange

The parent body’s venue directory; the Grange has no page of its own. Its mailing address is not recorded.

organization
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: orgrange-north-end

Find a Grange ↗

Oregon State Grange

organization
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: orgrange-find

Hurricane Creek Grange: meetings, breakfasts and the hall floor ↗

Hurricane Creek Grange #608

organization
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: hcg-home

About us: chartered 1923 ↗

Hurricane Creek Grange #608

organization
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: hcg-about

Hurricane Creek Grange 608 Hall ↗

Oregon State Grange

Directory contact names are rental contacts and are not published.

organization
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: orgrange-hurricane-creek

Hurricane Creek Grange #608 on Facebook ↗

Hurricane Creek Grange #608

Facebook page title and description as published by the organization; the page body is not readable without a login, and follower counts are not recorded.

organization
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: hcg-facebook

Chamber member listing: Rotary Club of Wallowa County ↗

Wallowa County Chamber of Commerce

member-supplied listing text hosted by the county chamber, a private organization; used only to corroborate an address or a self-description. The president’s phone number in the listing is not published.

organization
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: rotary-chamber

Club locations ↗

Rotary District 5100

organization
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: rotary-district

Rotary Club of Wallowa County on Facebook ↗

Rotary Club of Wallowa County

Facebook page title and description as published by the organization; the page body is not readable without a login, and follower counts are not recorded.

organization
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: rotary-facebook

About Ferguson Ridge ↗

Eagle Cap Ski Club

organization
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: fergi-about

History of skiing in Wallowa County (Gardner Locke, 1993) ↗

Eagle Cap Ski Club

The club’s published history; the 1950 members it names are not carried into the record.

organization
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: fergi-history

The mountain ↗

Eagle Cap Ski Club

organization
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: fergi-mountain

About Chief Joseph Days ↗

Chief Joseph Days Rodeo

organization
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: cjd-about

Chief Joseph Days Rodeo ↗

Chief Joseph Days Rodeo

The 2027 dates and anniversary merchandise are transient.

organization
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: cjd-home

Contact us ↗

Chief Joseph Days Rodeo

organization
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: cjd-contact

Wallowa County Museum ↗

Joseph Chamber of Commerce

organization
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: joseph-chamber-museum

Friends of the Wallowa County Museum: 2024 membership letter ↗

Friends of the Wallowa County Museum, hosted by Wallowa County

A PDF letter. Its board list and tax identification number are not published.

organization
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: friends-museum-letter

History of the Enterprise Cemetery ↗

Enterprise Cemetery Maintenance District

official
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: cemetery-history

Friends of Enterprise Cemetery on Facebook ↗

Friends of Enterprise Cemetery

Group title and truncated description; the group was shown as paused in January 2026.

organization
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: cemetery-friends-facebook

Chamber member listing: MidValley Theatre Company ↗

Wallowa County Chamber of Commerce

member-supplied listing text hosted by the county chamber, a private organization; used only to corroborate an address or a self-description.

organization
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: midvalley-chamber

MidValley Theatre Company on Facebook ↗

MidValley Theatre Company

Facebook page title and description as published by the organization; the page body is not readable without a login, and follower counts are not recorded.

organization
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: midvalley-facebook

Joseph Chamber of Commerce ↗

Joseph Chamber of Commerce

organization
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: joseph-chamber-home

Contact us ↗

Joseph Chamber of Commerce

organization
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: joseph-chamber-contact

The course: history and season ↗

Wallowa Valley Golf Association

organization
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: alpine-course

Our team ↗

Wallowa Valley Golf Association

organization
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: alpine-team

Bylaws, 2025 ↗

Wallowa Valley Golf Association

organization
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: alpine-bylaws

Wallowa Valley Golf Foundation ↗

Wallowa Valley Golf Foundation

Board members are listed without officer titles; the 2026 event dates are transient.

organization
Accessed 2026-09-13
Source ID: golf-foundation

About WVMA ↗

Wallowa Valley Music Alliance

The organization’s own account of its founding, purpose and programs; program start years are as stated there.

organization
Accessed 2026-10-11
Source ID: wvma-about

About Juniper Jam ↗

Wallowa Valley Music Alliance

When read, the page still described the 2025 festival. The 2026 date, venue and hours are from the site’s home page the same day.

organization
Accessed 2026-10-11
Source ID: juniper-jam-about

Past Juniper Jam performers ↗

Wallowa Valley Music Alliance

Performers listed by year; records the 2020 and 2021 cancellations.

organization
Accessed 2026-10-11
Source ID: juniper-jam-performers

Conversation with Janis Carper, October 5, 2026 ↗

Janis Carper

Recorded by the atlas with the participant’s permission at the Bookloft in Enterprise; one line approved for publication by email on October 7, 2026. Private contact details are withheld.

oral history
Accessed 2026-10-07
Source ID: janis-carper-conversation

Juniper Jam 2026 ↗

Brent Cheffings

208 photographs taken September 3–5, 2026, in an album the festival director shared on October 7, 2026. Permission to publish a selection with credit and a link was given by email on October 10, 2026; the director reported the musicians’ agreement. Act names in captions come from the photographer’s own file names.

archive
Accessed 2026-10-11
Source ID: juniper-jam-2026-photographs

The Legend of the “Hen Party”: Horsewomen of the Wallowas | Oregon Field Guide ↗

Oregon Public Broadcasting

Provider-hosted YouTube recording. Original channel and collection context are recorded on the film page. An Oregon Public Broadcasting production published April 4, 2024, alongside a written feature of the same date. The Hen Party rode in from the Grande Ronde Valley, so this is a Union County story set in Wallowa County’s mountains. The feature also records Birnie’s part in the 1970s “Save the Minam” campaign, which ended with 73,000 acres added to the Eagle Cap Wilderness in 1972. The family history is told by descendants from the Reece family archive; the atlas has not examined the archive itself.

organization
Accessed 2026-10-12
Source ID: film-horsewomen-of-the-hen-party

Wallowa County Workforce Housing ↗

Working Homes

The organization’s own statement of its mission, its reading of the housing problem and the income band it serves. Its percentages are presented without sources on the page and are not repeated here.

organization
Accessed 2026-10-12
Source ID: working-homes

Project submission form: Baker, Union, and Wallowa Counties (Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy) ↗

Northeast Oregon Economic Development District

The district’s site describes how public and nonprofit sponsors submit projects for the regional strategy and that its board considers additions at quarterly meetings. Other pages did not load when checked; the district’s 2021 needs assessment is registered separately on the Home in 2046 page.

organization
Accessed 2026-10-12
Source ID: neoedd-ceds

Payments in Lieu of Taxes ↗

U.S. Department of the Interior

County payment lookup: Wallowa County, Oregon, $690,395 in 2025 and $1,497,560 in 2026. The formula deducts certain prior-year federal payments, so a lapse in Secure Rural Schools can raise the following year’s PILT.

official
Accessed 2026-10-11
Source ID: doi-pilt

Wallowa County gets backlog of SRS funds ↗

Wallowa County Chieftain

May 5, 2026, by Bill Bradshaw. Nearly $2.25 million in Secure Rural Schools funds after the program’s lapse, paid in three parts through October 2026; Title I, 85 percent, to the county road department and the school districts; Title II, 8 percent, to natural-resource projects; Title III, 7 percent, to public safety, mostly the sheriff’s office. Commissioner Collier did not have the school breakdown.

archive
Accessed 2026-10-13
Source ID: chieftain-srs-2026

Juniper Jam week venues, 2026 ↗

Janis Carper, Juniper Jam festival director

By email on October 12, 2026, answering the atlas’s question about the Friday venue: Thursday, September 3, Morgan McHugh at Terminal Gravity Brewing and Bill LaVoie at the Range Rider; Friday, September 4, Ships to Roam and Rut Nut on Terminal Gravity’s lawn; Saturday’s after-party at the Range Rider; Sunday music at Terminal Gravity, not photographed. Both venues are long-time sponsors where the festival books Thursday through Sunday of its week.

organization
Accessed 2026-10-12
Source ID: juniper-jam-venues-2026

Buyer origins 2020–2025 and the market in October 2026 ↗

Ruby Peak Realty

Sales cards (RMLS broker-involved sales) shared by one of the office’s principal brokers on October 2–3 and 8, 2026; listing, rent, lot and construction-cost figures from a principal broker on October 5 and 7, 2026. The brokers asked, in writing, that the figures be credited to the office rather than to them by name. One office’s sales, not the whole market; the ‘investment or second home’ column includes local buyers and commercial property.

organization
Accessed 2026-10-08
Source ID: ruby-peak-2026

Conversation with Brian Campbell, October 4, 2026 ↗

Brian Campbell

At and after the Enterprise candidate forum at Cloverleaf Hall. Permission in writing on October 8, 2026 (“you can use whatever you want”); the exact passage approved on October 12, 2026, with his agreement to publish before the November 3 election.

oral history
Accessed 2026-10-12
Source ID: brian-campbell-conversation

Conversation with Commissioner Cody Lathrop, October 6, 2026 ↗

Cody Lathrop, Wallowa County Commissioner

On the record, at the courthouse in Enterprise. He reviewed a draft passage on October 13, 2026, asked for five changes, and confirmed the revised wording the same day; two lines he had said in conversation were withdrawn at his request and are not used.

oral history
Accessed 2026-10-13
Source ID: cody-lathrop-conversation

Wallowa Lake Dam Rehabilitation Project: testimony and project fact sheet to the Joint Subcommittee on Capital Construction ↗

Oregon State Legislature, submitted for the Wallowa Lake Irrigation District

May 6, 2021, by the district’s project manager. Dam timeline 1919 to 2001, a 28.4-foot raise over the natural lake, more than 50,000 acre-feet of storage, 16,000 and 21,000 irrigated acres, $16.0 million in 2020 dollars; fish passage was assumed to be trap-and-haul at the time.

official
Accessed 2026-10-13
Source ID: wallowa-dam-factsheet-2021

News release on the Wallowa Lake Dam agreement, September 23, 2020 ↗

Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife

The August 2020 agreement among the district, the Nez Perce Tribe, the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation and ODFW: up to 5,000 acre-feet a year, 4,500 for instream flows to the Washington line and up to 500 for water trades. Dam built in 1919, at reduced storage since the 1990s; Wallowa Lake as Oregon’s only Snake basin sockeye run, tens of thousands of fish before the dam; kokanee mostly descended from stocked fish; HB 5030’s $14 million in lottery funds and the delayed bonds.

official
Accessed 2026-10-13
Source ID: wallowa-dam-agreement-2020

Wallowa River Fish Passage and Flow Restoration (Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act focal area) ↗

Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife

February 2023. By this account the dam was constructed in 1916 and rebuilt in 1929; listed high hazard; limited to roughly 70 percent of the district’s water rights; sockeye extirpated in the early 1900s; the 5,000 acre-foot memorandum of agreement; nine passage barriers and four unscreened diversion sites remain downstream, including the Consolidated Ditch four miles below the dam.

official
Accessed 2026-10-13
Source ID: wallowa-focal-area-2023

Nez Perce pursue plan to return sockeye to Wallowa ↗

Columbia Basin Bulletin

September 11, 2003. Only the opening paragraphs are public: two canneries took about 12,000 sockeye from the lake in two consecutive years in the 1880s; the run was gone by 1905; Alaska sockeye were released in the 1920s; the last sea-run sockeye anyone remembered in the Wallowa River was seen in 1926, the year the dam was raised to its final height.

archive
Accessed 2026-10-13
Source ID: wallowa-sockeye-history-2003

$5 million approved for NE Oregon dam project ↗

Capital Press

November 19, 2022, by Bill Bradshaw. The National Fish and Wildlife Foundation’s America the Beautiful Challenge grant of just over $5 million to the Nez Perce Tribe, with the Umatilla tribes, for sockeye habitat connectivity at the dam; the project cost then about $21 million against an original $16 million; groundbreaking then expected in fall 2024; passage then planned as trap-and-haul.

archive
Accessed 2026-10-13
Source ID: wallowa-sockeye-grant-2022

Appeals court ruling on Wallowa Lake Dam is moot ↗

Wallowa County Chieftain

January 9, 2026, by Bill Bradshaw. The December 2022 state rule allowing trap-and-haul, the suit by the Nez Perce Tribe, the Umatilla tribes and seven organizations, the Oregon Court of Appeals ruling of early December 2025, the district’s decision to pursue a fish ladder instead, the Tribe chairman’s June 2023 letter that no one expected the district to pay for a ladder, and the $14 million in lottery bonds received.

archive
Accessed 2026-10-13
Source ID: wallowa-dam-court-2026

Collection ↗

Wallowa History Center

The research library, a digital collection hosted on Northwest Digital Heritage, past issues of the Wallowa Quarterly, the Historians Corner essays, and “The Wallowa Story,” a 45-minute slide presentation written in 1987 for the county centennial and restored by the center. No counts by format and no reproduction statement are given; requests go by email.

archive
Accessed 2026-10-14
Source ID: whc-collection

Field Reports, June 14, 2024: East Region, sockeye pilot program underway ↗

Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commission

About 50,000 sockeye eggs from Idaho’s Redfish Lake program in fall 2023, hatched and reared at Bonneville Hatchery and released into the Columbia River in spring 2024, with a ceremonial release on May 15; adults are not expected back at the hatchery until 2026, when ODFW and Nez Perce Tribe biologists plan the details of the reintroduction.

official
Accessed 2026-10-13
Source ID: wallowa-sockeye-pilot-2024

Wallowa Lake Dam work gets underway ↗

Wallowa County Chieftain

September 3, 2026, by Bill Bradshaw. Work began September 2 with all permits approved on August 26; first-phase scope (lowered spillway and gates, low-level outlets, screened intake, control building, flume) at $31.6 million, due August 2027; fish ladder and downstream passage as a second phase to 2028; from 2028 the lake may fill about six feet above the restricted level, about a foot below the pre-1996 maximum; McMillen Inc. as design-build lead; the dam dated to 1919 and its powerhouse to a 1958 fire.

archive
Accessed 2026-10-13
Source ID: wallowa-dam-work-2026

ODFW Wallowa Lake ↗

Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife

The agency’s page for the lake: naturally reproducing kokanee and lake trout, stocked rainbow trout, and a photograph captioned as the 9 lb 10 oz world-record kokanee caught on June 13, 2010.

official
Accessed 2026-10-13
Source ID: wallowa-kokanee-record

Enterprise ↗

The Oregon Encyclopedia, Oregon Historical Society

By Nathan Pedersen, last updated January 6, 2024. Wallowa County was separated from Union County in 1887; Joseph was the interim seat; Enterprise won the 1888 county-seat election against Joseph and Lostine and incorporated in 1889; the courthouse was built in 1909 of Bowlby stone and is on the National Register.

archive
Accessed 2026-10-13
Source ID: oregon-encyclopedia-enterprise

Board of Commissioners ↗

Wallowa County

Three commissioners, Lisa Collier, John Hillock and Cody Lathrop; meetings on the first and third Wednesday of each month at 9:00 a.m., with Zoom attendance; the board’s stated purpose, “to assist in maintaining community well-being.”

official
Accessed 2026-10-13
Source ID: county-boc

Cody Lathrop, Wallowa County Commissioner ↗

Wallowa County

Directory listing: elected in 2026; department responsibilities Building Codes, Grant Management, Vegetation, Veterans Services, Parole and Probation, Wallowa County Museum, Website and Social Media, IT and Technology, Search and Rescue, Emergency Management, Administration, Safety Committee and Natural Resources; city liaison for Enterprise and Lostine; regional seats including the Northeast Oregon Business Development Board and the Wallowa Union Railroad Authority.

official
Accessed 2026-10-13
Source ID: county-lathrop-directory

Lathrop swears oath as Wallowa County commissioner ↗

Wallowa County Chieftain

July 1, 2026, by Bill Bradshaw. The oath was administered by County Clerk Sandy Lathrop; he succeeds Mike Hayward, who joined the board in 2025 after Commissioner Susan Roberts died; he had stepped down as mayor of Enterprise on June 29.

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Accessed 2026-10-13
Source ID: chieftain-lathrop-oath-2026

Election: Wallowa County elects two commissioners, ends border talks ↗

Wallowa County Chieftain

May 20, 2026, by Bill Bradshaw. Position 2: Cody Lathrop 2,374, Paul Flanders 900, Stacey Karvoski 489; Position 3: John Hillock 2,140, Rawley Bigsby 1,563; Measure 32-011 passing with about 61 percent. Election-night counts; the article points readers to the state results site for final figures.

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Accessed 2026-10-13
Source ID: chieftain-election-2026

Election: Wallowa County voters repeal Greater Idaho meeting requirement ↗

Wallowa County Chieftain

Election night, May 19, 2026: Measure 32-011, 2,044 to 1,319. The 2023 measure had required the commissioners to hold meetings on moving the Oregon-Idaho border every February and August; the last was held on February 25, 2026. Not a certified count.

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Accessed 2026-10-13
Source ID: chieftain-border-repeal-2026

Marginal ‘Greater Idaho’ vote tightens to single digits in Wallowa County, OR ↗

KOIN

June 2023. After the final count, the measure requiring twice-yearly county meetings on moving the border was seven votes ahead, just outside the state’s recount threshold.

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Accessed 2026-10-13
Source ID: koin-border-2023

Wallowa County audits and adopted budgets ↗

Wallowa County

Fiscal 2025 audit: actual revenue across all funds about $11.5 million; transient lodging tax receipts $612,998. Adopted budget: budgeted full-time-equivalent positions 72.35 to 62.71. Budgeted positions are not filled positions.

official
Accessed 2026-10-11
Source ID: wallowa-county-audits

Merkley, Wyden announce over $52 million in PILT payments to support vital services in Oregon ↗

Office of Senator Ron Wyden

The 2026 county table: Wallowa County, $1,497,560 on 1,171,213 acres of federal land. The release notes that payments vary with acreage, prior-year federal revenue-sharing payments and inflation adjustments.

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Accessed 2026-10-13
Source ID: pilt-oregon-2026

Wyden, Merkley introduce bill to extend Secure Rural Schools funding ↗

Wallowa County Chieftain, from EO Media Group

October 10, 2026. The program’s funding expired on September 30, 2026; a bill introduced on October 1 by Oregon’s and Idaho’s senators would extend it three years. Funding had also lapsed from September 2023 to September 2025. Wyden co-wrote the original law in 2000.

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Accessed 2026-10-13
Source ID: srs-extension-2026

House Bill 4148 (2026 Regular Session), transient lodging taxes ↗

Oregon State Legislature

Enrolled in 2026, effective June 5, 2026. Lowers the share of a local lodging tax’s net revenue that must go to tourism promotion or tourism-related facilities from 70 percent to 50 percent, so that up to half may fund city or county services, emergency and non-emergency, with the percentage change applying from January 1, 2027. It does not change any tax rate.

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Accessed 2026-10-13
Source ID: hb4148-2026

Internet and phone service have been restored ↗

Wallowa County Sheriff’s Office

News release dated August 10, 2026: phone and internet service down across most of the county; 911 calls rerouted and answered; according to EONI the damaged fiber line had been found by 11:15 a.m.; service restored as of 12:35 p.m. The notice gives no start time.

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Accessed 2026-10-13
Source ID: sheriff-outage-2026

Wallowa County board continues landfill discussion ↗

Wallowa County Chieftain

August 19, 2026, by Bill Bradshaw. Whether to open the Ant Flat Landfill more days and hours for demolition waste from the west side of Wallowa Lake and the old county library in Enterprise, against the county’s cost; Commissioner Collier oversees the landfill and recycling; a work session was set for September 9.

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Accessed 2026-10-13
Source ID: chieftain-landfill-2026

Rural Capacity Index, May 2026 data download ↗

Headwaters Economics

Wallowa County, Oregon: 54.8 of 100; 29th of Oregon’s 36 counties by the atlas’s sort of the published scores. A composite of staffing, education, broadband and similar measures of a local government’s capacity to pursue and manage outside funding.

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Accessed 2026-10-11
Source ID: rural-capacity-index-2026

2024 Gazetteer Files, counties, Oregon ↗

U.S. Census Bureau

Wallowa County: land area 3,145.897 square miles; water 5.479.

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Accessed 2026-10-13
Source ID: census-gazetteer-2024

Decennial Census population count, Wallowa County, Oregon, 2020 ↗

U.S. Census Bureau

7,391 people on April 1, 2020 (table P1, P1_001N); 7,226 in 2000 and 7,008 in 2010 in the earlier counts.

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Accessed 2026-09-14
Source ID: census-2020-wallowa

Pandion Institute ↗

Pandion Institute

The institute’s own description: “Place-based learning for our Future Elders”; a 501(c)(3) at PO Box 1052, Joseph. Programs for 2026: Saqáanma School (Hells Canyon rafting, Nez Perce descendants from CTCR, NPT and CTUIR, ages 11 to 14, July 24–29); Native Youth Guide School (lower Salmon River, ages 15 to 17, August 11–16); Ancient Trails backpacking (Wenatchi homelands, July 14–17); CTUIR hunter education; Wánapa Deschutes rafting with CRÍID and LEAP. Thirteen staff and board listed, including chu’ma (Doug Marconi) as trip leader and grant writer.

organization
Accessed 2026-10-13
Source ID: pandion-site

hitoláayca (Going Upriver) ↗

Pandion Institute

The institute’s page for the film: Devin Reuben training to be the first certified nimiipuu whitewater guide of his generation; director, editor and camera Anna Lueck; producer and camera Clark Shimeall; cultural advising by Josiah Blackeagle, Tiyana Blackeagle and Louis Reuben. The page embeds the film from the NRS YouTube channel, where it was published on June 5, 2026 (25 minutes 36 seconds).

organization
Accessed 2026-10-13
Source ID: pandion-film

Pandion Institute, EIN 92-3714587 ↗

Cause IQ, from IRS Form 990-EZ filings

Formed 2023; Joseph, Oregon; revenue $60,900 in 2023 and $182,559 in 2024 against $152,788 in expenses; grants listed from the Meyer Memorial Trust ($75,000, March 2025, general operating), the Schmidt Family Foundation ($40,000, December 2024) and Seeding Justice ($10,000, June 2025). A summary of filings, not the filings themselves.

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Accessed 2026-10-13
Source ID: pandion-causeiq

hitoláayca (Going Upriver) ↗

NRS

Provider-hosted YouTube recording. Original channel and collection context are recorded on the film page. Published on the NRS channel on June 5, 2026, and presented by the Pandion Institute, a Joseph nonprofit that runs river and land programs for Nez Perce descendants and other Native youth, on its own site. Shown here as a published work with no partnership implied; the institute can ask for it to be presented differently or removed.

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Accessed 2026-10-13
Source ID: film-hitolaayca-going-upriver

About the Wallowa History Center ↗

Wallowa History Center

A nonprofit “whose mission is to increase public access to local history,” in the former U.S. Forest Service headquarters of the Bear-Sleds Ranger District at 602 W. 1st Street, Wallowa; a research library of more than 4,000 documents and objects; an interpretive center with rotating exhibits by volunteer historians; family-history help since 2001; local newspapers digitized back to 1868; the Wallowa Quarterly, 50 issues, produced by Bear Creek Press; open Thursday and Friday 10 to 2 and by appointment, free. Names Sadie Kennedy as executive director.

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Accessed 2026-10-14
Source ID: whc-about

Programs ↗

Wallowa History Center

Recorded talks on YouTube from 2018 to 2025 (the 1866 survey and Nez Perce resistance, the 1879 robbery of Old Chief Joseph’s grave, the Hells Canyon Songs Project, the Klan in the county 1920–1925, how we know what we know); pioneer cemetery and Promise driving tours; book groups and lectures with the Josephy Center; and Rendezvous, a hands-on history day for K–8 students in June 2024 with stations at City Hall, the public library and the Nez Perce Wallowa Homeland grounds.

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Accessed 2026-10-14
Source ID: whc-programs

Small Business Support ↗

Northeast Oregon Economic Development District

The district’s own program page: revolving loan fund and intermediary relending at up to 50 or 75 percent of project cost with 10 percent owner equity and loans capped at $250,000; microloans to $40,000 over one to five years at 7.25 to 17.25 percent with 5 percent equity; matched savings accounts; Kiva loans to $15,000 at no interest through Reinventing Rural; coaching and classes. Rates and terms change; the page gives no date.

organization
Accessed 2026-10-14
Source ID: living-neoedd-loans

Small-business grants soon available in NE Oregon ↗

Wallowa County Chieftain

February 11, 2025. Business Oregon’s Economic Equity Investment Program, administered by NEOEDD: $48,000 for Wallowa and Union county businesses, up to $4,000 for existing registered businesses and $2,000 for new ones, with a ten-week planning class as a condition; applications February 17 to March 16, 2025. A one-year round; whether it repeats is not stated.

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Accessed 2026-10-14
Source ID: living-eeip-2025

About Us; Lending Services ↗

Nimiipuu Community Development Fund

A certified Native community development financial institution at 95 Agency Road, Lapwai, Idaho, serving tribal and non-tribal community members on or near the Nez Perce Reservation across Idaho, Oregon and Washington. Business, consumer, credit-builder and home-improvement loans; 14 small-business loans totaling about $270,000 from 2016 to 2024, by its own count. No amounts, rates or terms are published.

organization
Accessed 2026-10-14
Source ID: living-nimiipuu-fund

Loans (ATNI Loan Program) ↗

Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians Economic Development Corporation

Loans of $5,000 to $125,000, larger by negotiation, for land, buildings, equipment, working capital and buyouts, to businesses owned by members of ATNI member tribes and to businesses that benefit a member tribe; members’ businesses get first priority; applications reviewed at a monthly committee meeting. The page says its rates are not the most competitive on the market. The Nez Perce Tribe is an ATNI member.

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Accessed 2026-10-14
Source ID: living-atni-loans

Lending Services ↗

Nixyáawii Community Financial Services

The Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation’s Treasury-certified lender: consumer, education and homeownership loans for enrolled CTUIR members, including a land-lease loan in the Nixyáawii neighborhood. A 2022 interview with its director said it had training partners but no small-business loan product yet; the current page lists none.

organization
Accessed 2026-10-14
Source ID: living-nixyaawii-lending

Indian Loan Guarantee and Insurance Program ↗

U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs, Division of Capital Investment

Guarantees or insures up to 90 percent of a lender’s loan to an enrolled member of a federally recognized tribe or to a business at least 51 percent Native-owned; the lender applies; about 20 percent equity is typical; casinos and some other business types are excluded. A guarantee, not a grant.

official
Accessed 2026-10-14
Source ID: living-bia-ilgp

Section 184 Indian Housing Loan Guarantee Program ↗

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development

Home-loan guarantee for members of federally recognized tribes, on or off tribal land, for one-to-four-unit homes through approved lenders in approved areas; HUD expanded eligibility to the whole state of Oregon in 2005. The current county map and 2026 loan limits are in Dear Lender Letter 2026-04; confirm Oregon’s listing before relying on it.

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Accessed 2026-10-14
Source ID: living-hud-184

Native American Small Business Assistance Programs ↗

Oregon Small Business Development Center Network

The state network’s list of Native business programs, including ONABEN, the Portland-based training organization founded in 1991 by four Oregon tribes whose Indianpreneurship courses are open regardless of tribal affiliation, and the Native lenders that serve Oregon. Training, not capital.

organization
Accessed 2026-10-14
Source ID: living-oregon-native-business

Nez Perce Tribe celebrates two women empowering small businesses ↗

Idaho Business Review

May 30, 2023. The Nez Perce Tribe’s small-business program, its federally funded community navigator pilot, and the Nimiipuu Community Development Fund as supports for a Lewiston remodeling company; names the navigator program’s director. The navigator grant was time-limited; its current status is not stated.

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Accessed 2026-10-14
Source ID: living-nez-perce-navigator

Grants Available to Bring Indigenous Tourism to Forest Service Lands ↗

Native News Online

The 2026 NATIVE Act grant run by the American Indian Alaska Native Tourism Association with the U.S. Forest Service: up to $50,000 to tribal nations, tribal enterprises and Indigenous nonprofits for tourism on or near Forest Service lands; applications were due May 1, 2026, with projects complete by May 1, 2027. Individuals cannot apply.

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Accessed 2026-10-14
Source ID: living-aianta-native-act-2026

Native American Business Development Institute (NABDI) Grant ↗

U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs

Feasibility-study grants to tribes and tribal organizations, typically $25,000 to $75,000 when funded. The page states there are no offerings for the foreseeable future.

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Accessed 2026-10-14
Source ID: living-nabdi

Rural Microentrepreneur Assistance Program ↗

U.S. Department of Agriculture, Rural Development

Loans and grants to microenterprise development organizations, including nonprofits and tribes, which relend to rural businesses with ten or fewer employees in microloans under $50,000. A business reaches it through an intermediary, not directly.

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Accessed 2026-10-14
Source ID: living-usda-rmap

Grants and Funding ↗

Travel Oregon

The Competitive Grants Program, ten percent of Travel Oregon’s budget since 2017 and more than $26.4 million awarded, to enhance, expand and promote the state’s tourism industry; 2026 letters of intent April 7 to 27, awards September 23. The page does not state who is eligible or the award range.

organization
Accessed 2026-10-14
Source ID: living-travel-oregon-grants

Outfitter Guide Registration ↗

Oregon State Marine Board, via the Secretary of State’s license directory

Annual outfitter-guide registration, $350 (charter guides with Coast Guard credentials $500), with a current liability certificate of at least $500,000 per occurrence naming the Marine Board, hands-on first aid and CPR, and a $5,000 surety bond where client deposits are taken; a Coast Guard or Marine Board operator credential for motorized boats. Fees changed recently; confirm with the board.

official
Accessed 2026-10-14
Source ID: living-osmb-outfitter

Rules of the Outfitters and Guides Licensing Board (IDAPA 24.35.01) ↗

Idaho Division of Occupational and Professional Licenses

Idaho licenses outfitters and guides separately from Oregon, with minimum qualifications, fees, safety standards and river-by-river limits; the Snake through Hells Canyon forms the state line, and Oregon-side outfitters describe holding both. The Forest Service administers Hells Canyon outfitting in coordination with this board under a memorandum of understanding.

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Accessed 2026-10-14
Source ID: living-oglb-idaho

Comprehensive Management Plan, Appendix H: Outfitter and Guide Operating Guidelines ↗

U.S. Forest Service, Hells Canyon National Recreation Area

New outfitter and guide permits are evaluated every three years; the need to raise use or issue new permits is analyzed when a significant number of existing outfitters have used 70 percent or more of their assigned days; new permittees are chosen through a prospectus and rated on evaluation criteria; services for senior citizens, people with disabilities, minority groups and youth groups are among the needs that can justify additional services. Float and powerboat permits on the Wild and Scenic Snake follow the 1999 river plan.

official
Accessed 2026-10-14
Source ID: living-hcnra-outfitters

Passes and Permits, Wallowa-Whitman National Forest ↗

U.S. Forest Service

A permit is required to float the Wild and Scenic Snake at any time of year; the primary season, from the Friday before Memorial Day to September 10, is run through the Four Rivers lottery, with limited commercial launches each day. The Hells Canyon office in Clarkston, (509) 758-0616, handles special-use permits.

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Accessed 2026-10-14
Source ID: living-wwnf-permits

Conversation with Shannon McNerney, October 2, 2026 ↗

Shannon McNerney

Recorded conversation with the atlas on October 2, 2026. The exact passage was approved by email on October 14, 2026 (“Thanks. That works for me.”), after she reworded one line and withdrew two others; nothing else from the conversation is used.

oral history
Accessed 2026-10-14
Source ID: shannon-mcnerney-conversation

Rural America’s Struggle to Access Private Capital ↗

Center on Rural Innovation, sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Report page and press release of May 2025. Figures used here are the ones the center states publicly: rural businesses are 12 percent of U.S. businesses and receive less than 1 percent of venture capital; more than 98 percent of venture capital goes to metropolitan counties and over half to five urban areas; rural community banks fell from 5,029 in 1994 to 2,618 in 2024. The full report sits behind a sign-up form.

organization
Accessed 2026-10-15
Source ID: living-cori-private-capital-2025

Rural America’s Philanthropic Sector: Grantmaking and The Role of Philanthropy in Rural Communities ↗

USDA Rural Development, Innovation Center, Data Analytics Division

March 2026. Counts grantmaking organizations active from 2014 to 2021 from IRS data and defines rural as counties outside metropolitan areas, which includes Wallowa County. Its key findings, page 2: about 6,300 of roughly 75,000 grantmakers, 8 percent, were rural-based; they issued $3.5 billion in grant dollars, 3 percent of the total; one rural county in three had no locally based grantmaker; rural grantmaking public charities were nearly 25 percent larger and issued more than twice as many grants as rural private foundations. Read on the report's own pages on October 15, 2026. Page 17, Table 4, on private-foundation grants from 2014 to 2018 in Candid’s data: 91 percent of grants by number and 96 percent by value flowed from urban foundations to urban recipients; urban foundations gave rural recipients 5 percent of grants by number and 3 percent by value; rural foundations sent 57 percent of their grant value to urban recipients.

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Accessed 2026-10-15
Source ID: living-usda-rural-philanthropy-2026

Bridging the Rural Philanthropy Gap: What the Data Tells Us, and What Comes Next for Greater Minnesota ↗

Center for Rural Policy and Development (Marnie Werner)

May 8, 2026. A second reading of the USDA report that quotes the same four figures; cited so a reader can check them without the federal PDF, which some browsers refuse.

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Accessed 2026-10-15
Source ID: living-ruralmn-philanthropy-2026

Evaluating State and Local Business Incentives ↗

Cailin Slattery and Owen Zidar, National Bureau of Economic Research working paper 26603; published in the Journal of Economic Perspectives, spring 2020

The working paper of January 2020, read in full. Page 13: more than 30 percent of establishments with over 1,000 employees receive discretionary subsidies, less than 0.2 percent of establishments with under 250 employees; firms receive $178.4 million on average and promise about 1,500 jobs; firms accept deals from places that are richer, larger and more urban than the average county. The authors find some direct employment gains but no strong evidence that firm-specific incentives increase broader state and local growth.

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Accessed 2026-10-15
Source ID: living-slattery-zidar-2020

State Small Business Credit Initiative, Annual Report 2022–2023 ↗

U.S. Department of the Treasury

Pages 4 and 6: as much as 9 percent of transactions, about $197 million, supported businesses in rural areas, defined as addresses outside a 2020 census urban area; 78 percent of transactions supported businesses with fewer than ten employees; 31 percent of participating lenders were community development financial institutions and 51 percent community banks.

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Accessed 2026-10-15
Source ID: living-ssbci-annual-2022-2023

State Small Business Credit Initiative (SSBCI) in Oregon ↗

Business Oregon

The state’s program page: $83.5 million to Oregon, approved in August 2022, $42 million for innovation equity and debt and $41.5 million for commercial lending; a Credit Enhancement Fund that insures loans made by banks and credit unions; a Community Re-lender Fund that buys part of loans made by community lenders such as CDFIs, economic development districts, tribal governments and nonprofits; businesses must have fewer than 500 employees and projects must be under $20 million. The page does not mention rural businesses.

official
Accessed 2026-10-15
Source ID: living-business-oregon-ssbci