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Wayne National Forest - Marietta District | |
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The Wayne is Ohio's only national forest. It is located exclusively within the area of the unglaciated Allegheny Plateau, in southeastern Ohio. It is organized into three purchase units. The Marietta District is located mostly in Washington and Monroe Counties, with a very small area in Noble County. With 18,000 acres, it is the most fragmented of the three districts of the Wayne. The Wayne was established, as were many of the eastern US national forests, to buy up marginal, worn out farmland and other "worthless" lands to restore them to forest and thus productive use. Most maps show only the purchase units designated by Congress, but these, in the case of eastern states, generally include large amounts of private land. These mapped areas only show the area in which the National Forest Service is allowed to purchase land. This page shows both the purchase areas in lilac and the actual land ownership in red. Other public lands in shades of green and blue area also shown.
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