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Game Commission approves multiple land acquisitions, exchanges and a non-surface oil-and-gas agreement
Summary
The commission approved several land purchases and exchanges to improve state game lands connectivity and management, and negotiated a non‑surface oil and gas agreement covering about 646 net oil-and-gas acres with Laurel Mountain Energy LLC under State Game Land 95.
The Pennsylvania Game Commission on April 12 approved a string of land transactions intended to improve the manageability and ecological value of state game lands and accepted a non-surface oil-and-gas agreement covering subsurface rights beneath portions of State Game Land (SGL) 95.
Land acquisitions and exchanges approved included a Pheasants Forever donation/purchase of roughly 71 acres adjoining SGL 44 (option price $142,600; the Game Fund obligation $10,718.32 with conservation fund covering remaining cost), a 79.3-acre wetland parcel near SGL 313 in Tioga County for $375,000 to be paid from a restricted environmental-settlement account, a 427-acre parcel adjacent to SGL 132 in Schuylkill County for $1,750,000 from the Game Fund, and a 7.2-acre addition to SGL 217 from Natural Lands Trust…
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