Save Ohio Parks is a group of volunteer grassroots citizens in Ohio concerned about fracking in our state parks, forests, wildlife areas, and other public lands.  This year Gov. DeWine signed a law kickstarting fracking in our public lands. So far oil and gas companies have applied to frack two of our state parks (Salt Fork and Wolf Run), and two of our wildlife areas (Valley Run and Zepernick). Additional applications are submitted every week.  Save Ohio Parks has formed to push back on this. Our public lands are supposed to be protected spaces for people and wildlife. They are not meant to be exploited by extractive industries.  The Oil and Gas Land Management Commission is now taking public comments on these fracking applications:

Salt Fork State Park: bit.ly/nofracksaltfork

Valley Run and Zepernick Wildlife Areas: bit.ly/valleyzep

Wolf Run State Park: bit.ly/nofrackwolfrun

The deadline to comment on Salt Fork and the two wildlife areas is July 20. The deadline to comment on Wolf Run is July 28.  Save Ohio Parks will send out additional action alerts regarding the other parks and wildlife areas targeted for fracking. To get those, join our mailing list at bit.ly/SOPjoin.