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President Donald Trump wants to expand American timber production in the nation’s national forests by 25%. A March executive ...
The Bureau of Land Management announced on April 18 that it would accept applications for fracking in a section of Wayne National Forest in Monroe, Noble, and Washington counties. The move ...
MARIETTA, Ohio (WTAP) - The Bureau of Land Management is opening up leasing and applications for oil and gas development on 40,000 acres of Wayne National Forest’s Marietta Unit in Washington ...
A former Gallia County, Ohio, fire department worker and police officer was sentenced to prison Monday for starting dozens of fires in Wayne National Forest, prosecutors said. James A. Bartels ...
The team's current focus is collaboration around oak ecosystem restoration within the 17-county oak management priority area in unglaciated southeast Ohio. Wayne National Forest Supervisor Lee ...
According to federal court records, Bartels admitted to using a lighter to start 26 fires in Wayne National ... forest in that area. Bartels resigned as a 911 dispatcher for Gallia County ...