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Visual Quality Objectives

Call to Artists  accepting proposals through february 25, 2016

The collective Environmental Impact Statement invites artists of all disciplines to submit project ideas for a show that will not happen if logging commences on the north slope of Mt. Hood. All proposals will be submitted as part of the public record for the Polallie Cooper Timber Sale. They will be submitted in response to the Forest Service’s analysis of the potential impacts from commercial logging on public land. 

All disciplines are encouraged to apply. Installations and performative works may reference the dimensions pictured below. Project proposals need not be limited by funding or even possibility. Proposals will be collected in a forthcoming publication.

The nearly 3,000 acres of forests in the Polallie Cooper Timber Sale that would be lost contain unlogged forest, and the many miles of new logging roads will cause untold impacts for decades to come. More information about the proposed logging project is provided online by the watchdogs for Mt. Hood National Forest, Bark.

PLEASE SUBMIT PROPOSALS THROUGH THIS SIMPLE WEBFORM.

The Forest Service is required under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) to undergo a thorough evaluation of the environmental impacts from a logging project such as Polallie Cooper, inform the public of these potential impacts, and collect comments on whether the public agrees that the harm is worth the benefit. In their assessment, the Forest Service uses a metric called Visual Quality Objectives set out in their management plan to anticipate impacts on the way the forest looks after the logging. We are submitting these projects as standing ideas that would not be possible should the logging take place in this forest. These creative projects will be included with the many other environmental concerns that the people will submit during the public comment period.

Ideas cannot be destroyed, but forests can be.

Thank you for participating, EIS Amy Harwood, Leif J Lee & Lisa Schonberg

EIS is supported by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Calligram Foundation, and the Precipice Fund. 

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A small Bee tends to the Phlox along the trail to Cooper Spur.