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Drilling has occurred on state forest lands for more than sixty years. Since 1947 and the first lease sale, the department has held 74 lease sales, the last of which was in 2010. Currently, about 660,000 acres of the 2.2-million-acre state forest are under lease for gas production, with about 700 wells in production.
