Federal officials auctioned more than 700 acres of the Wayne National Forest on Tuesday for eventual fracking, over the protests of environmental groups. My daughter Erica brought this to my attention and we believe that the fracking at  Wayne National Forest should not be allowed, The Wayne National Forest is the only National Forest in the state of Ohio and should be preserved for all future generation's.

Roosevelt had a lifelong interest in the environment and conservation starting with his youthful interest in forestry on his family estate. As governor and president, he launched numerous projects for conservation, in the name of protecting the environment, and providing beauty and jobs for the people. He was strengthened in his resolve by the model of his cousin Theodore Roosevelt. Although FDR was never an outdoorsman or sportsman on TR's scale, his growth of the national systems were comparable. FDR created 140 national wildlife refuges (especially for birds) and established 29 national forests and 29 national parks and monuments. He thereby achieved the vision he had set out in 1931:

Our conservation policy has been merely to preserve as much as possible of the existing forests. Our new policy goes a step further. It will not only preserve the existing forests, but create new ones.

As president, he was active in expanding, funding, and promoting the National Park and National Forest systems. He used relief agencies to upgrade the facilities. Their popularity soared, from three million visitors a year at the start of the decade, to 15.5 million in 1939. His favorite agency was the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), which expended most of its effort on environmental projects. The CCC in a dozen years enrolled 3.4 million young men; they built 13,000 miles of trails, planted two billion trees and upgraded 125,000 miles of dirt roads. Every state had its own state parks, and Roosevelt made sure that WPA and CCC projects were set up to upgrade them as well as the national systems.

We Do not think fracking is what F.D.R. wanted to preserve our forest for.

The destruction and polluting of our Forest has got to stop. The forest give off oxygen and we all need Oxygen! There are far too many ways through modern technology to produce all the energy we need. Fracking involves blasting huge amounts of water, sand and chemicals deep into underground rock formations to access oil and natural gas. While this is a form of alternative energy, it also has harmful environmental implications, influencing local air pollution, earthquakes and, especially, clean water supply.

My daughter Erica brought this to my attention and we believe that the fracking at  Wayne National Forest should not be allowed, The Wayne National Forest is the only National Forest in the state of Ohio and should be preserved for all future generation's.

Stop the Fracking in Wayne National Forest