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Great Smoky Mountains National Park – Re-construction to Begin March 1 on Newfound Gap Road (U.S. 441) (U.S. National Park Service)

Tennessee

Date: February 18, 2011 Contact: Bob Miller, (865) 436-1207 Motorists traveling across Great Smoky Mountains National Park on Newfound Gap Road (U.S. 441) can expect to experience delays beginning March 1, 2011 when work begins to rehabilitate 2.4 miles of the road from the North Carolina state line at Newfound Gap northward into Tennessee. The work will be performed by

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17500 Kentucky Acres for Sale!!

Kentucky

This is 17500 Acres for sale in the Beautiful Mountains of Kentucky! The infrastructure of Electric and 40 Ft. wide gravel roads are already on the property and in great condition! The property currently has over 60 million board feet of marketable timber ready for harvest and produces approx. 0000 per year from coal easement rights payable to the owner.

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Reclaiming Futures Kentucky Part 1

Kentucky

This is the local video describing Reclaiming Futures in the Mountains of Kentucky, one of 10 grantee sites of Reclaiming Futures, a national initiative of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Reclaiming Futures in the Mountains of Kentucky is affiliated with Kentucky River Community Care and is a new approach to helping teenagers caught in the cycle of drugs, alcohol and

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News from Vermont

Vermont

News from Vermont # 230 — Up Clay Hill Burr Morse Morse Farm Maple Sugarworks Montpelier, VT www.morsefarm.com February 11, 2011 Hello again Maple People, There’s something about our Vermont winter that brings total awe from traveling folks; “How do you survive in the winter? Can you get out at all? Do they even try to plow the snow or

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New River Gorge National River – National Park Service Releases Hiking-Biking Plan for Public Review (U.S. National Park Service)

West Virginia

NPS Releases Hiking/Bicycling Trail Plan/EA for Public Review and Schedules an Open House at Canyon Rim Visitor Center “We are pleased to announce that the Hiking and Bicycling Trail Plan/Environmental Assessment (plan/EA) is now available for public review and comment,” explained National Park Service Superintendent Don Striker. “The public has expressed a great deal of interest in developing additional trail

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