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MORGAN COUNTY, OH (WCMH) – A man hunting turkeys in the Wayne National Forest was injured in an accidental shooting Friday morning. According to the Morgan County Sheriff’s Office, the victim ...
NELSONVILLE — The Wayne National Forest is looking for a volunteer campground host for its Leith Run Campground on the Ohio River north of Newport. Potential candidates will need to commit from ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Gary Chancey, a spokesman for the Wayne National Forest, said the new $20 permit should create a better system to track the amount of ginseng harvested out of the forest in Athens County every year.
The eyes of the seismological and environmental worlds have focused on Wayne National Forest this week, the sight of a 3.0-magnitude earthquake on Sunday. For now, fracking operations in the ...
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 ...
A sign at Wayne National Forest's Athens Ranger Station on U.S. Route 33 in Nelsonville is among many that would have to be replaced if Ohio's only national forest undergoes a proposed name change ...
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.
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 ...