Bark's winter campaign

Dear Barker,

What does grassroots look like? It looks like 3,162 official comments sent to the Forest Service last week opposing the 2,000-acre Jazz Timber Sale. It looks like artist Robin Corbo getting 50 volunteers to help paint the new Bark mural and local editor Corrinne Theodoru volunteering her time to create this video about the impact of logging on Mt. Hood's watersheds.

It looks like Bark stretching your donation by empowering thousands of Oregonians to stop the Palomar Pipeline from clearcutting 47 miles of Mt. Hood National Forest.

We only have $16,000 left to go in our paper-free fundraising campaign and we need your help. Please support Bark today.


Here is how Bark turns your donation into winning campaigns:


Ten Bark volunteers groundtruthed all 47-miles of the proposed Palomar Pipeline and provided their field data to pro-bono attorneys. Bark helped over 12,000 people send comments and organized massive rallies challenging NW Natural's proposal. Your donations supported what we call the kitchen-sink strategy... and it worked!

Bark's work inspires volunteers like Corrinne, who created the Jazz Timber Sale video, while your donation supports Brenna Bell, Bark's NEPA Coordinator, whose 2011 NEPA 101 trainings empowered a team of 8 volunteers to help write Bark's 39-page comments challenging Jazz!

Decades of volunteer groundtruthing and NEPA work fuels Bark's Restore Mt. Hood Campaign, which is proposing revisions to the Mt. Hood Forest Plan. The Plan, which turned 21-years-old this year, mandates antiquated projects like the Jazz Timber Sale. Your donation is creating a new vision for Mt. Hood.

Our new vision for Mt. Hood does not allow corporations like Nestlé to take and bottle our water.

How will we win against Nestlé? Your donation will support the "kitchen sink" strategy (see Palomar victory, above).

Your donation to Bark also supports sophisticated political and media strategies:

Bark has helped Mt. Hood National Forest become a model for the country by putting people to work decommissioning roads to restore our watersheds. And to ensure that Oregonians learn about the far ranging ecological and economic benefits of this work, Bark coordinated a media field trip with local reporter Keely Chalmers and the KGW news crew.

Bark's 2011 Mt. Hood Solutions Summit brought water managers together for the first time to discuss what's working and what's not. Bark presented preliminary findings from our Water White Paper suggesting that the Forest Service's prioritization of logging isn't working for our drinking water.

Early this year Bark discovered that the Forest Service illegally allowed seven timber sales, covering nearly 10,000 acres, to move ahead with insufficient stream buffers, threatening salmon. Bark sued to protect water quality for salmon and downstream communities. We're currently in negotiations so stay tuned...

Most importantly your donation to Bark guarantees
that someone is watching the forests that you love.

Bark's volunteer Board of Directors, volunteer Forest Watch Committee, volunteer Events Committee, Groundtruthing volunteers, NEPA volunteers, and our staff, have all given 110% this year. I hope you will click any of the links in this email and do the same. With your donation we can meet our fundraising goal and get back to the important work of protecting Mt. Hood National Forest.

Thank you,

Alex P. Brown, Executive Director


PS- Did you know that last year, more than 10% of the total road decommissioning in the entire national forest system was in Mt. Hood? Think your $1,000, $250, or $50 isn't helping? Your donation has helped Bark secure millions of dollars in funding to restore Mt. Hood and create a national model right here in Oregon. Now that's stretching your donation.