Read this one. (It's free.)
Possibly the craziest investigation I've published. It's got mystery, fraud, false leads, a road trip & plenty of characters as I dig into what could be going on with 320K acres of public lands up for oil drilling in a place without oil.
www.azcentral.com/story/news/l...
After 320,000 acres in northern Arizona were nominated for oil and gas leasing, where experts say no oil or gas exists, a public lands mystery began.