September 25th, 2009

Mt. Hood art auction- Auction is now closed

To celebrate our tenth anniversary, Bark asked some of Mt. Hood’s most prominent fans to draw a sketch of our beloved mountain and her wildest features! Author Ursula K. LeGuin, rocker Corin Tucker, Commissioner Randy Leonard, illustrator Nikki McClure and many more donated works.

Bidding was fierce as the auction came to a close at midnight on October 5. The reserve for most pieces was met, and the total sales are contributing over $10,000 to Bark's work to protect and restore Mt. Hood National Forest.

Thanks and congratulations to all who successfully bid on the various artworks!


About My Hood is Your Hood

Most of Bark's victories are the result of regular Oregonians who care about Mt. Hood National Forest deciding to volunteer. In addition to writing letters, organizing friends, and groundtruthing timber sales to stop logging, Bark fundraising and outreach events are created by a volunteer Events Committee.

When determining what was most important about Bark’s 10 years, the committee tossed around plenty of great ideas: stopping old-growth timber sales in Mt. Hood National Forest, protecting the historic Polallie-Cooper area, getting the Forest Service to remove hundreds of miles of old logging roads…the list goes on. But the committee decided that the most important aspect of Bark’s work is enabling Oregonians, whether recent transplant or 3rd generation, to become involved in the decisions of their national forest. My Hood is Your Hood is all about connecting people through art, music, and activism, to their public land.


About Bark

For the past ten years Bark has been protecting Mt. Hood National Forest from destructive logging and road building in Portland’s backyard. Bark has saved over 9,000 acres from the chainsaw by training people to explore the forest and “groundtruth” logging projects proposed by the Forest Service. Bark also leads the Restore Mt. Hood Coalition, which is writing a Mt. Hood Ecosystem and Recreation Plan to replace the 20 year old timber-focused plan the Forest Service uses. The new plan will provide management solutions for protecting clean drinking water, quiet recreation access, and wildlife habitat.

So after 10,000 volunteer hours, 8,000 letters, 400 hikes, 120 “Bark for Mt. Hood” TV shows, 23 groundtruthing trainings, 15 campouts, and 6 lawsuits, it is time to celebrate!