A Texas-based company was chosen as the “highest and best” to lease land in Leesville Wildlife Area in Carroll County for fracking at Friday’s Ohio Oil and Gas Land Management meeting.

At least one interested driller asked the state to open an additional 4,360 acres of Egypt Valley Wildlife Area and 383 acres of Jockey Hollow Wildlife Area, both in Belmont County, to oil and gas ...

The well was planned to sit northwest of Valley Run, just under 2 miles ... 6,584 acres of land at Salt Fork State Park, plus smaller tracts at Keen Wildlife Area, Zepernick Wildlife Area ...