BUCKEYE ENVIRONMENTAL NETWORK

Buckeye Environmental Network (BEN) is a 501(c)(3) organization serving community and grassroots environmental groups across the State of Ohio. BEN has distinguished itself in providing community organizations with technical assistance and advice on how to conduct effective grassroots campaigns. BEN has fought for almost twenty-five years against exploitation of our native public forests by corporate interests, including stopping logging on Wayne National Forest for ten years, helping achieve an end to commercial logging on Mohican State Forest, and preventing longwall mining under Dysart Woods, one of Ohio's few old-growth remnants. BEN led publicity efforts upon release of the Heartwood-commissioned An Economic Analysis of the 2006 Wayne National Forest Plan," by GreenFire Consulting Group, LLC, and, after the 3000-acre wildfire in the Shawnee State Forest in April 2009 that followed escape of a DOF prescribed burn on a day of extreme fire danger. Our grassroots collaborative efforts..