Form 990 for tax year 2022

What the amendment changed

Compared with the return it replaced , filed 8 May 2023. matched by us Only the return's totals, a 990-PF's accounting method and the names listed in Part VII (Part VIII on a 990-PF) are compared. We relate returns by organization, tax year and form, and order them by each return's own timestamp; the filer's own "amended return" checkbox is a separate fact.

Total revenue

$367,252 →changed to $775,644

Total expenses

$387,444 →changed to $811,093

Contributions and grants received

$367,005 →changed to $775,175

Investment income

$208 →changed to $526

Other revenue

$39 →changed to -$57

Total assets, end of year

$664,346 →changed to $644,029

Total liabilities, end of year

$55,819 →changed to $71,191

Net assets or fund balances, end of year

$608,527 →changed to $572,838

Program services expenses

$294,133 →changed to $462,435

Management and general expenses

$46,221 →changed to $250,536

Fundraising expenses

$47,090 →changed to $98,122

Program service expenses (Part III)

$294,133 →changed to $462,435

Totals

Total revenue

$775,644

Total expenses

$811,093

Contributions and grants received

$775,175

Grants paid

$0

Program service revenue

$0

Investment income

$526

Other revenue

-$57

Total assets, end of year

$644,029

Total liabilities, end of year

$71,191

Net assets or fund balances, end of year

$572,838

Program services expenses (Part IX)

$462,435

Management and general expenses

$250,536

Fundraising expenses

$98,122

Program service expenses (Part III)

$462,435

Program services were 57.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

Line items

Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.

Mission and programs · 2022

• PUBLIC EDUCATION AND ADVOCACY - PROVIDING FREE, EDUCATIONAL RESOURCE MATERIALS, GUIDED LEARNING EXPERIENCES, AND FACILITATED CIVIC ENGAGEMENT ACTIVITIES TO INFORM AND SUPPORT PUBLIC PARTICIPATION IN PUBLIC LANDS LAW AND POLICY BY INCREASING PUBLIC UNDERSTANDING OF FOREST ECOLOGY, RESTORATION SCIENCE, AND ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE THROUGH IN-PERSON AND VIRTUAL SPACES (GUIDED HIKES, WETLAND RESTORATION, AND ECOLOGICAL SURVEY ACTIVITIES, VIRTUAL AND IN-PERSON GATHERINGS, WEB-BASED LEARNING MATERIALS AND RECORDED AND IN-PERSON TRAINING AND WORKSHOPS) TRAINING AND WORKSHOPS HELD THIS PAST YEAR INCLUDED: BEAVER HABITAT SURVEY TRAINING, GROUNDTRUTHING 101 & 102, WETLAND MAPPING 101 & 102, INTRO TO COMMENT WRITING, INTRO TO FOREST POLICY, GRASSHOPPER PUBLIC COMMENT WRITING WORKSHOP, GATE CREEK INSECT AND DISEASE CE PUBLIC COMMENT WRITING WORKSHOP, FOREST FIRST AID, USING COLONIZER SPECIES: DANDELIONS, AND NATURE POETRY. STAFF LED THREE ECOLOGICAL FIELD SURVEY TRAINING COURSES FOR STUDENTS AT PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY AND THE PORTLAND STATE ASSOCIATION OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE STUDENTS. IN TOTAL THIS PROGRAM TRAINED AND EDUCATED 121 VOLUNTEERS AND PARTICIPANTS.

  Expenses $222,440

• FOREST WATCH - TRAINED AND GUIDED 54 VOLUNTEERS IN CONDUCTING ON-SITE ECOLOGICAL SURVEYS AND MONITORING PROPOSED TIMBER LOGGING AND ROAD-BUILDING PROJECTS ON THE PUBLIC LANDS OF MT. HOOD NATIONAL FOREST, INCORPORATES COMMUNITY-DRIVEN SCIENCE DATA INTO PUBLIC COMMENTS SUBMITTED ORGANIZATIONALLY AND BY THOUSANDS OF MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC, THROUGH THE NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY ACT AND NATIONAL FOREST MANAGEMENT ACT, ON 3 MAJOR PROPOSED LAND MANAGEMENT ACTIONS INCLUDING COMMERCIAL TIMBER HARVEST, POST-FIRE ROADSIDE TREE REMOVAL POST-FIRE SALVAGE LOGGING, INSECT AND DISEASE TREATMENTS, AND FUELS REDUCTION AND THINNING. BARK STAFF AND VOLUNTEERS GROUNDTRUTHED THE PROPOSED GATE CREEK CE PROJECT AREA IN THE SUMMER OF 2022, PROVIDING SITE-SPECIFIC DATA AND ANALYSIS TO GUIDE THE RECOMMENDATIONS FORMED IN THE COLLABORATIVE PROCESS TO EDUCATE AND INFORM THE PUBLIC DESPITE THE INTENTIONALLY EXCLUSIVE PROJECT DEVELOPMENT PROCESS. THE GATE CREEK CE PROPOSED LOGGING IN 490 ACRES WITHIN DESIGNATED RIPARIAN RESERVES, 162 IN DESIGNATED PINE MARTEN/PILEATED WOODPECKER HABITAT, 893 ACRES WITHIN FIRE-ADAPTED PINE-OAK HABITAT, AND 501 ACRES DESIGNATED AS SCENIC VIEWSHED, IN ADDITION TO 1,419 ACRES DESIGNATED AS TIMBER EMPHASIS BY THE CRITICALLY OUTDATED, 1990 MT. HOOD FOREST MANAGEMENT PLAN. IN THE FALL OF 2022, BARK FILED A FORMAL OBJECTION TO THE 5,000-ACRE GRASSHOPPER TIMBER PROJECT ON MT. HOOD'S BARLOW RANGER DISTRICT, IS THE CULMINATION OF THREE YEARS OF ENGAGEMENT WITH PROJECT PLANNING UNDER THE NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY ACT. IN THE SUMMER OF 2023 BARK VOLUNTEERS GROUNDTRUTHED THE AREAS PROPOSED FOR LOGGING IN THE 27 ROAD FUEL BREAK CE PROJECT THROUGHOUT 6-DAY TRIPS AND VOLUNTEER CAMPOUTS. THIS PROJECT WOULD CREATE A 1,000' FUEL BREAK ALONG AREAS OF THE 27-ROAD SYSTEM (APPROXIMATELY 2,900 ACRES TOTAL).

  Expenses $117,063

• RESTORATION - TRAINED AND GUIDED 115 VOLUNTEERS IN SEASONAL BEAVER HABITAT SURVEYS RESTORATION PLANTINGS, AND WETLAND HYDROLOGICAL CAPACITY MONITORING IN MT. HOOD NATIONAL FOREST ROUGHLY 60 MILES FROM PORTLAND, OR. CONDUCTED SURVEYS OF CLACKAMAS LAKE, LITTLE CRATER LAKE, BLACK WOLF MEADOW, TIMOTHY LAKE, ANVIL CREEK/LAKE, SHELL ROCK LAKE, BUCK LAKE, STONE CREEK, AND OTHER SITES ACROSS THE OAK GROVE FORK SUB WATERSHED OF THE CLACKAMAS RIVER BASIN-PRIORITIZING FORESTED SITES THAT ARE DIFFICULT TO MAP VIA AERIAL MAPPING TO CONDUCT FIELD VERIFICATION OF HABITAT TYPES. ONCE SUBMITTED AND APPROVED, THE AREAS MAPPED WILL BE AVAILABLE FOR THE USE OF THE PUBLIC AND FEDERAL AGENCIES THROUGH THE NATIONAL WETLAND INVENTORY. THE UPDATED BOUNDARIES AND CLASSIFICATIONS OF WETLANDS PRODUCED THROUGH OUR IMAGE INTERPRETATION AND FIELD-BASED VERIFICATION WILL PROVIDE A CURRENT INVENTORY OF THE LOCATIONS AND TYPES OF WETLANDS IN OUR PROJECT AREA ON MT. HOOD.

  Expenses $113,556

• OTHER PROGRAMS INCLUDE LOBBYING AND EDI.

  Expenses $9,376

As filed on the 2022 return.

Listed in Part VII

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those.

Grants on this return

No itemized grants to organizations on this return.

Provenance

Return type

form_990

Tax year

2022

Filed

20 March 2024

IRS schema version

2022v5.0

Source object

202441069349300504

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