Trainings

Bark's successes in protecting Mt. Hood forests and rivers are only possible because of our volunteer organizers, educators, and activists.

Who makes land management decisions and what are their goals?How can we influence the management if we, the public, don’t like it? This training will answer all these questions, and more!

Join Bark's groundtruthing and training camp-out along the Clackamas River, near Bagby Hot Springs. Learn how to field check a timber sale, and many other skills as we camp, work, and explore together in the forest.

Prepare to delve into the proposed timber sale’s geography and ecology. We need good photos, good maps, and good people that know that area of forest well enough to show it to others. This training is intended for people interested in becoming actively engaged in this type of in-the-forest work with Bark, and requires no previous experience.

Groundtruthing involves documenting threats to public forests and finding inconsistencies between what the Forest Service says and what is actually

Join us for a workshop on social media strategies for campaign outreach.

This will be the second part of our Groundtruthing Training. We will learn to safely navigate our way through the forest, and discuss how to document what we see to create a compelling case to advocate for the area.