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The 3,250 acre Vinton Furnace Experimental Forest, shown here, 
and a 12,599 acre forest called the Raccoon Ecological Management Area will forever be preserved as a state forest.
Ohio Department of Natural Resources officials announced plans to spend more than $15 million to buy the land, 70 percent of which will come from federal funds. The privately owned experimental forest has been used by state foresters and forestry researchers for years to examine the effects of logging and woodland management techniques.
Much of the forest in the management area was owned by paper companies that grew and logged trees there for paper mills. The Ohio Nature Conservancy helped in the purchase.
anyone ever been here? thoughts on using federal dollars for this instead of "up and coming" neighborhoods? :)
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