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West Virginia DNR - Plants
Incooperation with herbaria throughout the state and the region, and the FloraWest Virginia Committee, the West Virginia Natural Heritage Program (WVHP) hascompiled a checklist and atlas of the vascular flora of the state. WVHP has also worked with Dr. Sue Studlar atWest Virginia University to capture voucher data for bryophytes, and to createan annotated checklist of the hornworts, liverworts, and mosses of thestate. With the West Virginia NativePlant Society, we’ve created a checklist of the invasive vascular plants of ourstate, determining which aggressive plant species pose threats to natural areasof our state.. With all this specimenlabel data, data gathered by Heritage and academic botanists, and data gatheredfrom the scientific literature, WVHP has determined that 438 vascular andnon-vascular plants are rare enough in our state to warrant trackingthem. That is, we have mapped ontopographic maps where these rare plant species occur in our state, takingnotes about the ecology, ... [Read More]
Funding and Infrastructure Issues at Small and Medium Sized Airports; Wichita, KS and Huntington, WV
Congressman Rahall, I know we are focusing on southern West Virginia today, but an example from northern West Virginia airports is typical of the lack of service in rural America even in what is a good rural market. One of West Virginia's fastest growing airports is Benedum Airport near Clarksburg, the home of the FBI identification facility. ... The subcommittee met, pursuant to call, at 1 p.m., in the Council Chamber, Huntington City Hall, 800 5th Avenue, Huntington, West Virginia, Hon. John J. Duncan, Jr. [chairman of the subcommittee] presiding. ... [Read More]
2002 NEWS CLIPS ARCHIVE
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Marshall University, West Virginia
On May 11th, I spoke with health care professionals and citizens from all over West Virginia at a forum, organized by Senator Rockefeller, about what West Virginia wanted to see happen with health care reform. ... HUNTINGTON, WEST VIRGINIA ... Marshall University, West Virginia ... [Read More]
NARA | Prologue | Prologue: Selected Articles
While in Key West the battalion sent small detachments to participate in several funeral services held for navy personnel. Colonel Huntington also detailed men to patrol the streets of Key West to guard against men causing trouble while on liberty. The unit received a number of Colt machine guns, and navy Assistant Surgeon John Blair Gibbs also joined the battalion. 19 On June 7 the naval base at Key West received a telegram from the acting secretary of the navy stressing, "Send the Marine Battalion at once to Sampson without waiting for the Army send Yosemite as convoy." 20 The long wait was over, and that day the battalion finally sailed for Cuba, leaving behind Major Pope sick in the hospital. ... [Read More]
1998 CLIPS ARCHIVE
This news article archive contains the publication dates, newspapers or publishing organizations, and the headlines of 1998 articles collected by the Office of Surface Mining. Recent articles and links to the publication source can be found on the ... [Read More]
ARC | Geotourism MapGuide to Appalachia Featured Sites
New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, West Virginia, Virginia, Tennessee, North Carolina, Georgia, (Alabama-spur) ... [Read More]
1999 CLIPS ARCHIVE
This news article archive contains the publication dates, newspapers or publishing organizations, and the headlines of 1999 articles collected by the Office of Surface Mining. Recent articles and links to the publication source can be found on the ... [Read More]
"The Earth Shook, The Sky Burned": The Newspaper in American Life
“There were very politically charged newspapers, and they channeled the political passions of the people of the time in a way that they don’t now,” says Errol Somay, director of the Virginia Newspaper Project. He recounts that when the editor of the State challenged the editor of the Whig to a duel in 1883, the two took elaborate measures to evade the law, traveling two hundred miles to meet in West Virginia. Although dueling was illegal, the incident was covered on the front page of the victorious editor’s paper. “The final duel is described in great detail, like a sporting event.” ... [Read More]
Division of Preservation and Access
Newspapers chronicle the daily life of America's citizens across the country. They document the civic, legal, historical, and cultural events that have occurred in every region of the nation during the past three hundred years. All fifty states, two U.S. territories, and the District of Columbia are now involved in the Endowment's United States Newspaper Program, a national initiative to catalog and preserve on microfilm the country's newspapers on a state-by-state basis. At the conclusion of currently funded NEH newspaper projects, more than 146,800 newspaper titles will be available in a national database and approximately 60.5 million deteriorating newspaper pages will have been transferred onto microfilm. ... [Read More]
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