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Federal Plan Would Open Ohio’s Only National Forest to Fracking
ATHENS, Ohio— A new Bureau of Land Management plan to open 40,000 acres of the Wayne National Forest to fracking for oil and gas looks almost identical to one a federal judge rejected in 2020. The ...
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From coal to community forest: how one Ohio organization is reclaiming former mine land
A team of locals in Athens County is trying to make former mine land economically productive again. Instead of harvesting ...
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Ex-Ohio 911 dispatcher who admitted to starting forest fires gets 18 months in prison
In Ohio's Wayne National Forest, court records said more than 40 suspected arson fires were lit in 2022, and Bartels admitted to causing 26 of them. While working for the Greenfield Fire ...
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An Ohio conservation program makes protecting the state’s forests more profitable
The vast majority of Ohio forestland is privately-owned. While many owners may be tempted to cut and sell trees in the ...
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Court Blocks Oil, Gas Extraction on Ohio’s Only National Forest
COLUMBUS, Ohio― A federal judge blocked new oil and gas leasing and fracking in Ohio’s Wayne National Forest late Monday, following a ruling last year rebuking the Bureau of Land Management and U.S.