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Protest Challenges New Fracking Leases Threatening Ohio’s Only National Forest
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 plan to auction off 345 acres of Ohio’s Wayne National Forest for oil and gas fracking leases in March. The protest, filed late Tuesday, notes that the leases would lock in dangerous fracking in the Wayne. Despite known threats from hydraulic fracturing, the... -
WAYNE NATIONAL FOREST MANAGEMENT PLAN REVISION ESCALATED
On February 13, 2018, the USFS announced that it would be revising the Wayne National Forest Land and Resource Management Plan (“Plan”). Heartwood and other groups sued the U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management in 2017 over the auctioning of mineral rights under the forest and tiering that leasing decision-making to the outdated Plan. Pointing to the fact that the outdated Plan does not contemplate the impacts...