WASHINGTON, D. C. - Wayne National Forest received just over 1,200 public comments after it proposed renaming the 244,000-acre forest in the Appalachian foothills at the behest of Native American ...

NELSONVILLE (AP) — Some 40 Native American tribes have ancestral ties to Wayne National Forest, a quarter-million acres spread across portions of Appalachian southeastern Ohio.

Ohio’s only national forest might soon have a new name. Wayne National Forest is named for Anthony Wayne, a decorated Revolutionary War general with a complicated history that includes the removal of ...

The Wayne National Forest is actually three large sections of forest in the Appalachian foothills of southern and southeastern Ohio. The sections are near Athens, Ironton and Marietta.

NELSONVILLE — The USDA Forest Service is proposing to change the name of the Wayne National Forest to the Buckeye National Forest. The effort comes in response to requests from American Indian ...

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 ...

The department is seeking to rename Wayne National Forest to Buckeye National Forest. It’s a moniker that pleases members of indigenous communities, whose tribes were forced from their homelands ...

Following deforestation trends in Southeast Ohio, multiple groups of people are working on projects to stimulate tree growth.

Name change opponents decried 'wokeness' and erasing history. Those who opposed renaming the Wayne National Forest saw it as erasing history. "Could we all just chill out, admit everyone's history ...

NELSONVILLE — The Wayne National Forest planted a Moon Tree sapling at its Forest Headquarters building May 23 as part of an initiative between NASA and the U.S. Forest Service. The sweetgum ...

Founding father Gen. Anthony Wayne’s legacy is getting a second look at Ohio’s Wayne National Forest A vigorous debate is under way over a U.S. Forest Service proposal to rename the 390 square ...

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 ...