1. Clean Water, Public Lands, and
Gas and Oil Fracking
James D. Nations
Fifth Annual
Choose Clean Water Conference
June 4, 2014

3. Fracking for natural gas and oil

4. Fracking on Federal Lands

5. Gas & Oil Fracking and National Parks

6. Marcellus Shale Formation

7. River Kayaking, Delaware Water Gap (PA-NJ) photo: Christian Heeb

8. Fracking and Water

9. Delaware River Basin

10. Grand Teton National Park (WY) photo: J. Nations

11. Big South Fork NRA (TN-KY) photo: Willard Clay

12. Wild Goose Island, Glacier National Park (MT) photo: Val Bakhtin

13. “We prefer the myth
when it conflicts with the facts,
mostly because there’s more
money in it.”
Richard Manning
Rewilding the West
(2009: 59)

14. National Parks
and Hydraulic Fracturing:
Balancing Energy Needs, Nature, and
America’s National Heritage
National Parks Conservation Association
2013
npca.org/about-us/center-for-park-
research/fracking/fracking-report