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The United States Department of Agriculture Forest Service announced over the summer that it was considering renaming the park at the behest of local tribal leaders who say that Revolutionary War General Anthony Wayne led efforts to remove Native Americans from the area in 1794.

By JULIE CARR SMYTH

Some 40 Native American tribes have ancestral ties to Wayne National Forest, a quarter-million acres spread across portions of Appalachian southeastern Ohio.

A vigorous debate is under way over a U.S. Forest Service proposal to rename the 390 square-mile Wayne National Forest after Ohios state tree, the buckeye. The public comment period

NELSONVILLE, Ohio — Some 40 Native American tribes have ancestral ties to Wayne National Forest, a quarter-million acres spread across portions of Appalachian southeastern Ohio. Their citizens have never stopped

Some 40 Native American tribes have ancestral ties to Wayne National Forest, a quarter-million acres spread across portions of Appalachian southeastern Ohio.

A vigorous debate is under way over a U.S. Forest Service proposal to rename the 390 square-mile Wayne National Forest after Ohios state tree, the buckeye. The public comment period

Gen. Anthony Wayne was celebrated in an earlier era as an “Indian fighter.”

NELSONVILLE, Ohio (AP) — Some 40 Native American tribes have ancestral ties to Wayne National Forest, a quarter-million acres spread across portions of Appalachian southeastern Ohio. Their citizens have never stopped helping the U.S. Forest Service manage this expanse of forested hills, hollows, streams and lakes — even as the name recalls a violent past. […]