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An open conversation · 2046

What should home
feel like in twenty years?

The work worth carrying on. The people who should be able to stay or return. The changes you hope to see—and the things you hope will last. Start with where the county’s money comes from, and what twenty people said in October 2026, counted without names.

Explore Home in 2046 ↗
A barn and working fields beneath the Wallowa Mountains
Gary Halvorson, Oregon State Archives · 20 June 2016 · CC BY 4.0 · Image & source ↗