TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — A Traverse City company is abandoning a nearly decade-long effort to extract natural gas in an environmentally sensitive area of Michigan’s northern Lower Peninsula, federal officials say.

The U.S. Forest Service reported this week that Savoy Energy LP recently submitted a letter withdrawing an application to drill below a site called the Mason Tract in Crawford County. The Mason Tract is a 4,700-acre wilderness area near the south branch of the Au Sable River.