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Ohio BHA Wins Big With State Land Purchase

Left to right: Tony Ruffing, Ohio BHA chair; Mike DeWine, governor of Ohio; Benton Collins, Ohio BHA wildlife and habitat restoration committee chair; Tim Rogers, Ohio BHA communications co-chair   By Jonathan Ingram The story of Ohio’s American Electric Power ReCreation Lands is a common one east of the Mississippi. It is a story of resource extraction followed by reclamation and resurgence. In the 1960s, AEP concluded a decades long process of strip mining the rich coal deposits that ...

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