Tia Hatton
Meet Tia Hatton:
Tia received her Bachelor of Science degree in Environmental Science and minor in Nonprofit Administration in June 2019. Born and raised in Bend, she has hiked, ran, and skied throughout the tremendous scenery and diverse environments of central Oregon. She’s worked on donor stewardship, outreach, and public lands monitoring for various Oregon nonprofit organizations. Tia is actively engaged in climate work with other young people through Our Children’s Trust legal action, Juliana v. US . She looks forward to applying and growing her nonprofit and land trust knowledge to benefit Wallowa County’s people and land, as well as fitting in many hikes.
Community and Organization:
Wallowa Land Trust (WLT) is a land conservancy nonprofit located in Enterprise, Oregon with a service area of Wallowa County. WLT works cooperatively with landowners, tribal entities, and local partners to save threatened working lands from development, protect habitat, and maintain the scenic, rural nature of County. The Wallowa Valley is the traditional homeland of the Chief Joseph Wallowa band of the Nez Perce people. The community remains highly reliant on a natural resource based economy. Nearly 60% of the land in Wallowa County is public, and this includes the largest wilderness in Oregon, the Eagle Cap.
Project:
In her RARE position, Tia will focus on Outreach and Communications for the Land Trust with the aim of increasing understanding about the organization, reaching new audiences, and solidifying communications. She will work with the Coalition of Oregon Land Trusts, utilizing information gained through statewide community understanding surveys and assessments, to create and carry out a full fledged communications and outreach plan. Tia will assist in outreach for the ongoing Campaign for the East Moraine: the project will secure nearly 1,800 acres from development and maintain it as a working landscape to benefit the community. Further, she will be formalizing and increasing tribal engagement. This includes planning events that connect landowners and tribal members to allow traditional gathering and exploring the integration of traditional ecological knowledge into stewardship plans. Finally, Tia will assist in updating WLT’s strategic plan.