Bark announces Summer 2010 Campaign

With the recent announcement to suspend the Palomar Pipeline, Bark has proven that our grassroots organizing strategies can send even the most powerful corporations packing. Yet as we celebrate this victory, larger and more complicated threats loom over Mt. Hood and we need your help.   

Bark knows what it takes to protect Mt. Hood from increasingly serious and complex threats. Will you chip in $25, $35, or $100 right now to support our work?

The fight to protect Mt. Hood National Forest is no longer limited to stopping timber sales as it was eleven years ago when Bark was founded. PGE -- now in partnership with Pacific Power -- just submitted a proposal to clear a 27-mile energy corridor through Mt. Hood and Nestle is looking to privatize and sell our fresh water in the Columbia Gorge. Meanwhile, the Forest Service hasn't stopped logging our national forests -- over 10,000 acres of Mt. Hood are slated for logging in the next year.

Our small staff and dedicated supporters like you have always kept Bark ahead of the curve, but the game has changed. Bark is confronting emerging energy and water speculation by hiring a new staff person to do the research, educate and organize Oregonians, and document the potential impacts of clear cuts, energy transmission lines and the privatization of public resources.

Will you help us reach our $15,000 goal for building our capacity to meet these ever-intensifying threats? Please make a special summer donation of $25, $35, or $100 now.

With your help, we will keep doing what Bark does best: using tried and true grassroots tactics to protect the Mt. Hood you love. You can count on us to engage in the federal regulatory process, influence decision makers and expose corporate grabs for public resources.

From Clackamas River to Breitenbush, Maupin to Olallie Lakes, and Hood River to Sandy, Bark has mobilized thousands of Oregonians to protect our public land. Now, we need you to be there for Bark as Mt. Hood faces more difficult threats than ever before. Thank you for your special summer gift.

Sincerely,

Alex P. Brown, Executive Director

PS- Despite growing up in Portland, I just hiked the Larch Mountain trail in the Gorge for the first time. After hiking through 80-year-old forests -- and the accompanying 80-year-old stumps -- you cross a line into pristine old growth forest. At some point our parents and grandparents drew a line between logging and protecting other values. Your support today will enable Bark to begin drawing this line for energy expansion.

Click here to tell a friend about  Bark's exciting summer campaign to build capacity in response to threats to our beloved Mt. Hood National Forest.

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