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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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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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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.
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Wayne National Forest announces spring prescribed burns
NELSONVILLE, Ohio — The Wayne National Forest will conduct spring prescribed fires in five areas totaling up to 4,555 acres between approximately March 1 to May 30.
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U.S. Forest Service to conduct prescribed burn in Wayne County Friday
(WDAM) - Wayne County residents may notice smokey ... The Chickasawhay Ranger District will conduct an 802-acre burn in the De Soto National Forest. The burn will occur approximately four miles ...