NELSONVILLE, Ohio - Two weeks out of the year, Shane Allen from Floyd County, Ky., can be found in southern Ohio hunting on the Wayne National Forest in Lawrence County.

Photo courtesy of the Wayne National Forest Shane Allen from Floyd County, Kentucky, bagged this 16-point buck on Wayne National Forest land in Lawrence County, Ohio, last month, on opening day of ...

Feds Auction Fracking Leases That Threaten Ohio's Only National Forest . COLUMBUS, Ohio— The U.S. Bureau of Land Management today will auction 345 acres of Ohio’s only national forest, the Wayne ...

Protest Challenges New Fracking Leases Threatening Ohio's Only National Forest . COLUMBUS, Ohio— Seven conservation groups have filed an administrative protest challenging a Bureau of Land Management ...

Leases to as many as 40,000 acres of the Wayne National Forest could be auctioned to oil and gas companies for exploration and possible fracking operations before the U.S. Bureau of Land ...

Oil and gas companies bid about $5.2 million Thursday for the rights to explore and potentially drill in 1,180 acres of land in the Wayne National Forest.

Among Washington, Morgan, Monroe and Noble counties, 64,667 acres of land are federally owned as part of the Wayne National Forest, but those lands are exempt from property taxes which can create ...

MARIETTA — Two extraction leases for parcels in the Wayne National Forest in Monroe County and in Noble County, both near the boundary of Washington County, are being auctioned with proposals to ...

Conservation groups sued the federal government Tuesday, challenging its plan to allow hydraulic fracturing, better known as fracking, in the Wayne National Forest. The U.S. Department of Interior ...

Wayne National Forest is a mix of public and privately owned land. Environmentalists say they'll continue their fight to stop drilling in the forest. The leases don't automatically allow companies ...