Trail work shapes a stable tourism plan at New River Gorge
Gene Kistler of Blue Ridge Outdoors and Jim Angell of Bend coordinate Access Fund trail sessions in the New River Gorge to expand outdoor recreation access. The effort, funded by Access Fund grants, aims to keep public lands open for hikers bikers climbers and riders while improving land management relations.
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Gene Kistler
Access Fund
New River Gorge
Blue Ridge Outdoors
Fayetteville
Kistler
Plateau Action Network
Jim Angell
Bend
Ore
Angell
American Alpine Club
U.S. Forest Service
National Park Service
Bureau of Land Management
Forest Service
Oklahoma City bombing anniversary marks healing progress
At the third anniversary of the Murrah Federal Building bombing 168 seconds of silence honored each victim as survivors and relatives gathered. Siblings Rebecca and Brandon Denny, once in the daycare, recall the blast while their father Jim Denny speaks of lasting scars and resilience. President Clinton noted the attack as an assault on a city and nation.
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Oklahoma City
Michael Hinton
Federal Building
Secret Service
Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building
Siaieda
Treney
Rebecca
Brandon Denny
Jim Denny
Brandon
Denny
Paul Heath
Veterans Administration
Clinton
Coal Miners Suffer Black Lung Amid Dust Testing Cheats
The Courier-Journal reports a long running program of deceit in coal dust testing. Despite 1969 limits and federal oversight, miners face deadly black lung as operators falsify air samples. Government officials acknowledge ongoing cheating, though the law reduced cases by about two thirds.
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Courier-Journal of Louisville
J. Davitt McAteer
Congress
Environmentalists plan suit over mountaintop removal mining
West Virginia Highlands Conservancy and 10 residents filed for a federal lawsuit against the state Division of Environmental Protection in U.S. District Court. They seek to stop permits for mountaintop removal and allege DEP director John Caffrey violated the law by issuing permits. The suit cites blasting, dust, noise, and stream degradation in Boone, Logan, and Mingo counties as harms from the practice, which has grown since a legislative rule expansion.
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Charleston
West Virginia Highlands Conservancy
State Division of Environmental Protection
U.S. District Court
West Virginia
Boone
Logan
Mingo
Cecil Underwood
DEP
John Caffrey
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Chris Hancock
the Register-Herald
By Roche
Hines Associated Press
Raleigh Adams
Assy
LOTTO
Des Moines
BUICK
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