Bark Hike Leader: Amy Harwood
www.bark-out.org
In the coming months, the Forest Service will be revising their Travel Plan. This document guides the agency in their decision-making when it comes to building, maintaining and obliterating roads in Mt. Hood. Many of these roads have been unmaintained and abused by all-terrain vehicles. With each storm a road becomes more and more likely to fall into a crossing stream. After decades of logging and mismanagement, there are over 4,000 miles of roads in Mt. Hood National Forest alone!
Bark has a long history of defending the national forest with site-specific, scientifically backed monitoring data from Forest Service projects. We intend to treat our response to their Travel Plan revisions with the same rigor and passion. Join our team of groundtruthers come out of the forest and onto the road in an effort to complete the first citizen-led inventory of this crumbling road system."
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