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Roadsides in Bloom 2012 Calendar Photo Contest

Please Note: West Virginia Mountain Dreams does not have any connection to the following announcement. I have yet to be able to acquire a calendar myself. *The supply of 2011 wildflower calendars has been exhausted. We apologize for any inconvenience. WV Operation Wildflower Roadsides in Bloom 2012 Calendar Photo Contest Entry Deadline October 1, 2011 The Departments of Environmental Protection and Transportation invite the

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Roan Mountain In Winter

The first time I drove up to Carver’s Gap in the winter in search of skiable snow, I should’ve known that “Nordic Nirvana,” as I later called it, was hidden just behind the two feet of spring snow being chewed up by rowdy four-wheelers on the road up Roan Mountain. A crowd of crazies from back in the hollers seemed

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Great Smoky Mountains National Park hikers rescued from snowy backcountry | citizen-times.com | Asheville Citizen-Times

GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS NATIONAL PARK — Two hikers from Louisiana spent a scary night in waist-deep snow in the national park before making it to safety, a rescue official said Thursday. Emergency dispatchers took a 911 call from the hikers at 10:30 a.m. Monday, said Greg Shuping, emergency operations chief in Haywood County. The backpackers were at the Laurel Gap

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Mountain Maryland Holiday photo contest

On the Mountain Maryland Facebook page they are running a Holiday Photo Contest until December 19. Here are the entries in the Mountain Maryland Holiday Photo Contest. The image that gets the most thumbs-up ‘likes’ between December 10th and December 19th will receive a family weekend get-away to Rivers Edge Farm and Alpaca Farm in Oldtown, Maryland (http://barbsalpacas.com/stay.html) The stay

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Houston driller agrees to pay Pennsylvania residents $4.1 million | Business | Chron.com – Houston Chronicle

From my local paper tonight… HARRISBURG, Pa. — The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection has dropped its plan to force a Houston-based drilling company to pay nearly $12 million to extend a public water line to residents whose wells have been contaminated with methane gas.Environmental regulators say Cabot Oil & Gas Corp. instead will pay residents a total of $4.1

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