COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Officials in Ohio have struck a deal with American Electric Power that could lead to the state’s most significant public recreation expansion in recent memory. Natural Resources ...

Photo by Janell Hunter Hook Lake at ReCreation Campground A is located in the heart of 60,000 acres of reclaimed strip-mined land that the Ohio Department of Natural Resources is in negotiations to ...

ATHENS - American Electric Power (AEP) Ohio continues to add to their conservation legacy with the opening of an additional 26,000 acres in the ReCreation Land agreement area located in Morgan, ...

COLUMBUS - Ohio Senator Tim Schaffer (R-Lancaster) introduced Senate Bill 333 this week, which will require the Ohio Department of Natural Resources to make payments in lieu of taxes (PILT) to local ...

The Muskingum Watershed Conservancy District is expanding its recreation land in the Wills Creek area by adding 298 acres called Aster Ridge in Linton Township, former AEP recreation land. MWCD owns ...

The state's planned $47 million purchase of more than 31,000 acres of land in eastern Ohio for recreation and conservation does not include the subsurface rights, and some of it likely will be the ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - Officials in Ohio have struck a deal with American Electric Power that could lead to the state’s most significant public recreation expansion in recent memory. Natural Resources ...