The BLM just put Ohio's only national forest back on the auction block for fracking, a forest that grew back from a century of clear-cuts and furnace fires. The public comment period closes Wednesday, June 17.

A federal judge already threw this exact plan out once. In 2021 the court ruled the agencies showed a disregard for the damage fracking does to the Wayne, blocked new leasing, and ordered them back to the drawing board. For four years the forest was safe. Then Washington flipped a switch and Doug Burgum's Interior Department dug the dead sale back up.

Here's the figure buried in the BLM's own analysis. By the agency's own math, the project could wipe out the entire carbon sequestration capacity of the Wayne for the next 30 years. A forest that spent a century pulling carbon out of the air, zeroed out for three decades, so a handful of operators can frack 2,795 acres. They ran those numbers and moved forward anyway.

The same corner of Ohio watched a 2014 well pad fire dump wastewater into Opossum Creek and kill an estimated 70,000 fish across five miles of stream. That's the industry's track record here.

The Wayne came back once against worse odds than these. The agency is counting on a small comment count.

File your comment with the BLM before Wednesday, the instructions are in the post, and share this with one person who loves the Wayne or has never heard of it. Let's be louder than the auction.