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On January 26, 2015 the Mt. Hood National Forest released a draft Environmental Assessment (EA) for the Polallie Cooper II Timber Sale . This required government document outlines the potential impacts from commercial logging on over 3,000 acres of public land on the north slope of Mt. Hood, including approximately 1,900 large areas of mature and old growth forests. The Forest Service is required under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) to 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 to anticipate impacts on how the forest will look after logging.

Th e artist collective Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) has invited artists from all disciplines and locations to submit proposals for work that cannot happen if this area is logged thus illustrating the vast potential for creativity, visually and otherwise expressed, that would be lost if logging proceeds. All artist proposals will be submitted as part of the public record in the form of comments in response to the Forest Service’s draft EA for the Polallie Cooper Timber Sale. These creative projects will be included alongside many other environmental concerns submitted during the public comment period. Visual Quality Objectives is encouraging artists to insert their artistic practice in this political process to help protect a very important place. * The original VQO projects were shortened for the EIS+VRH exhibition where they were printed and hung on the wall.