The U.S. Forest Service (USFS) has withdrawn more than 3,300 acres of public land in southeast Ohio from a federal oil and natural gas lease sale scheduled for Dec. 7, pending a study on the possible effects hydraulic fracturing (fracking) could have on the state’s only national forest.
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BLM Eastern Lease Sale Auctions 56,417 acres in 3 States
The Bureau of Land Management — Eastern States leased 155 parcels of land in the Ouachita and Ozark National Forests in Arkansas, the Kisatchie National Forest in Louisiana, and the Bienville and DeSoto National Forests in Mississippi, bringing in $6.4 million in the latest competitive auction on March 24 in Springfield, VA.
April 4, 2005