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April 1, 2026
One year ago
One year ago, crews stood beside a forgotten oil well drilled more than a century earlier in what is now the Deep Fork National Wildlife Refuge. The well, known as Cover #5, had been drilled around 1918 during Oklahoma’s early oil boom. For decades it sat quietly, one of more than one hundred legacy wells scattered across the refuge landscape, from wetlands to in the Deep Fork River itself.