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Comment your questions about Bark campouts below! ⛺

You're invited to camp with Bark! We've got two campouts coming up – the first is June 25-28, and the second is July 9-12. Campouts allow us to collect much more data than we’re able to do in a single field day with the added fun of hanging out with fellow Barkers at camp afterwards! You’ll get the opportunity to join us for groundtruthing, beaver habitat, and wetland verification surveys. No experience necessary!

We hope you'll join us! Learn more & sign up for campouts here: https://bark-out.org/events/

Journey to Mt. Hood with us on Saturday, 6/13 for another Beaver Habitat Survey field day! Carpool is available and no experience is necessary! 🦫

During beaver habitat surveys, we'll collect data from all over our site and assess our site for presence of woody building material, herbaceous foods, hydrology, beaver sign (like chew or old dams) and more. The data we gather will help us assess sites for future restoration projects.

These field days are moderate to high physical activity days with plenty of stepping over logs, wading into wetland areas and pushing through shrubs. We have extra boots and waders for you if you need 'em!

Learn more and sign up here: https://bark-out.org/event/beaver-habitat-survey-field-day-9/

Let's go camping! ⛺ Bark campouts allow us to collect much more data than we’re able to do in a single field day with the added fun of hanging out with fellow Barkers at camp afterwards! You’ll get the opportunity to join us for groundtruthing, beaver habitat, and wetland verification surveys. No experience necessary!

Our first campout of the year will be June 25-28, and is focused on surveying the South Wasco Ecosystem Resiliency (SWER) project, which is currently being developed by the Forest Service. The project area is roughly south of Frog Lake, and east of Clear Lake along the National Forest and Warm Springs Reservation boundary. It is too early to know exactly what the Forest Service will be proposing, but SWER is a very large project containing a range of forest types and plant communities, including some areas of the forest with mature and old growth characteristics. The data we collect will be critical to Bark’s advocacy, defense, and restoration work.

Need to borrow some gear? We've got you covered!

Learn more & sign up here: https://bark-out.org/event/bark-campout/

Shout out to for their generous support in funding this campout!

The final comment period of the Anvil Vegetation Management Project on Mt. Hood National Forest is now open! Long before this project was publicly announced, Bark received preliminary maps of the project area. This allowed Bark staff and volunteers to get a head start on groundtruthing the proposed project area in Summer 2025.

As Bark reviews and anaylzes the Draft Environmental Assessment, we wanted to take a look back at how we got to this point. Thanks to Bark’s consistent engagement, Mt. Hood National Forest has continued to offer public comment periods, even though the Forest Service’s new NEPA regulations say they don’t have to. And thanks to our early engagement, we've already had a measurable impact on project direction and priorities.

Stay tuned for more information about where this project is at now, and mark your calendars for our Anvil Project Comment Writing Workshop! We hope you'll join us to workshop our comments and speak up for Mt Hood.

Wednesday, June 10th from 6-7:30pm
Bark HQ | 351 NE 18th Avenue, Portland, OR

RSVP here: https://bark-out.org/event/anvil-project-comment-writing-workshop/