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  Miami Travel Guide - Miami Travel
Miami Travel Guide - Miami is located in Southeast Florida, on the Miami River, between the Florida Everglades and the Atlantic Ocean.
Miami's flavour is heavily influenced by the confluence of cultures that meet in this diverse urban area.
In addition to the relaxation retreat offered by the area’s beaches, Miami also has a happening nightlife that is second to none.
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  Little Miami River - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Little Miami River (also called the Little Miami Scenic River) is a tributary of the Ohio River, approximately 160 mi (257 km) long, in southwestern Ohio in the United States.
It joins the Ohio River east of Cincinnati, and is named for the Miami, an Algonquin-speaking Native American people who lived in the region during the early days of white settlement.
A series of state and local parks and bike trails have been built along the river, including the Little Miami Bike Trail (of which the Loveland Bike Trail is a subsection), the Buckeye Trail, and Little Miami Scenic State Park.
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 Encyclopedia: Miami, Florida
Miami and the surrounding metropolitan area sits between the Miami River, Biscayne Bay, the Everglades and the Atlantic Ocean.
Miami was officially incorporated as a city on July 28, 1896 with a population of just over 300.
The area was a concentration of water because the Miami River is essentially a funnel for water from the Everglades to the Atlantic Ocean.
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 Little Miami State and National Scenic River   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The Little Miami River was the first Ohio stream to also be designated as a National Scenic River.
The Little Miami Scenic River Valley is rich with relics of Ohio's past.
The Little Miami watershed is home to a wide variety of flora and fauna.
www.dnr.state.oh.us /dnap/sr/lmiami.htm   (463 words)

  
 Miami River - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Great Miami River in Southwestern Ohio: Named after the Native American Miami tribe.
Little Miami River in Southwestern Ohio: Named after the Native American Miami tribe.
Miami River in South Florida: Its name is most likely derivied from a Native American word that means "sweet water" (See Miami, Florida : Early History).
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 Little Miami   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The Little Miami River Valley is historically significant to the state of Ohio.
Little Miami Scenic Park introduces a new concept to the state park system--a trail corridor.
The Little Miami Scenic Trail is approximately 50 miles in length.
www.placesohio.com /ohio-state-parks/littlemiami   (1078 words)

  
 USGS NAWQA, White River - Great and Little Miami River Basin Study Unit, Indiana and Ohio
Both the White River and the East Fork White River originate in the upper reaches of the Basin in agricultural areas consisting of flat to rolling glacial till plain that covers the northern part of the basin.
Although rivers in the Great and Little Miami River Basins greatly influenced the early development of the region's economy, it has been the availability of abundant ground-water supplies that has spurred rapid growth and development in the region since the beginning of this century.
The Little Miami River (a State and National Scenic River), the upper Great Miami River and its tributaries, and the Whitewater River in Indiana largely contain high-quality warmwater habitats with biologically diverse fish and wildlife populations.
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 Features - Vol 43 No 3_2- Little Miami   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
In Hamilton County, the river flows past adjacent Lake Isabella, where an abandoned railroad spur acts as a dike between the lake and the river.
The Little Miami River qualified as a Scenic River as a result of its free-flowing condition, its mostly undeveloped shoreline, and its many biological and historical attributes.
Various river bank stabilization options were presented, however, the river's Scenic designation and management guidelines of the Hamilton County Parks demanded that any solution have a minimal environmental impact.
www.landandwater.com /features/vol43no3/vol43no3_2.html   (1351 words)

  
 guest111298
The river is one of only three National Scenic Rivers in Ohio and is ranked in the top 10 percent of Ohio's stream ecosystem.
Little Miami, Inc. encourages your support of the transit-oriented proposals which are part of the OKI Eastern Corridor Recommended Plan, and your opposition to the proposed Red Bank Road Connector bridge crossing of the Little Miami near Mariemont, a fatal flaw proposed by the Hamilton County Engineer.
Little Miami Inc. has worked suc cessfully with many developers over the last 30 years to find an appropriate bal ance between river conservation and economic development.
www.cincypost.com /opinion/1998/guest111298.html   (833 words)

  
 Little Miami   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The Little Miami Scenic Park became a state park in 1979.
If you plan to canoe or boat the Little Miami Scenic River, you must exercise caution because the river's immense power is often hidden.
Streams such as the Little Miami are always dangerous at lowhead dams and where log jams or submerged trees create powerful forces in the current.
www.ohioparks.net /littlemiami   (1182 words)

  
 Little Miami at DennyGibson.com
The restaurant is accessible to both the river and the bike trail that passes behind it.
Little Miami Trail and many still think of it as the Loveland Bike Trail.
The orange brick building is perched on a rather pretty Little Miami overlook and was once the home of the electronics division of the Cincinnati Milling Machine Company and the tallest point in the county.
www.dennygibson.com /DayTrips/Trip2   (1161 words)

  
 University of Cincinnati Research News Release   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Cincinnati -- The Little Miami River is a national scenic river and one of Ohio's most important rivers, both ecologically and economically.
And although there is a rich diversity of life in the river, including 83 species of fish, there are also three endangered fish species and two endangered species of mussels in the Little Miami.
Or, those nutrients might be fertilizing the algae in the river, leading to blooms which severely limit the amount of oxygen available to the fish.
www.uc.edu /info-services/river.htm   (608 words)

  
 Trailing Along the Little Miami
Southwestern Ohio is blessed with a Little Miami River.
This beautiful peaceful river has long been a canoeist's delight, and it has been designated a national scenic river as well as an Ohio state park.
The Little Miami Scenic Trail also has been developing along the bed of the former Little Miami Railroad from Terrace Park, east of Cincinnati, northward, paralleling the river.
www.trails.com /explore/tcatalog_trail.asp?AffID=mz01&TrailID=BGM034-033   (165 words)

  
 Little Miami River Catering Co. Brings "Smokin" New Lunch Spot Downtown
Dayton, Ohio, February 9, 2004---The celebrated south suburb caterer and full service event planner "Little Miami River Catering Co." is pleased to announce a new culinary experience for weekday lunch dining downtown.
Long time supporters of community efforts in the Miami Valley, owners Glen Penquite and daughter Molly McConnell most recently provided their culinary skills for the VIP dining preview ceremonies for Inventing Flight and Greene County's Bicentennial celebrations.
Little Miami River Catering Co.'s presence in downtown Dayton will also bring additional meeting and event capabilities with dining room space for 160 to 180 people and ballroom space for 320 people in the Shrine Temple.
www.downtown-dayton.com /news/releases/littlemiami.html   (288 words)

  
 Saturday's a special day for the Little Miami River
The river was promptly rejected from the federal program, created to protect streams from development that would pollute them.
Little Miami Inc. worked with politicians to have the shacks removed, and two years later the lower part of the river was accepted into the federal program.
The national environmental group American Rivers listed the Little Miami as one of 10 "endangered" rivers in the country because of ongoing pressures from sewage plants and the planned construction of a highway and new bridge crossing as part of the $1.4 billion transportation plan called the Eastern Corridor Project.
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 Phosphate Little Miami River   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
As indicated in the web page of Little Miami, Inc., the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency has implicated phosphate as contributing to excessive algae growth in the Little Miami River, thus depriving fish of sufficient oxygen.
More information on the Little Miami River can be found at the sites of the US Geological Survey and the Ohio Division of Natural Areas and Preserves.
An extensive study of the Little Miami River was performed by the Ohio EPA in 1993.
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 Wildernet - Little Miami State Park
Description - The Little Miami Scenic Park is located within the beautiful and historic Little Miami River Valley.
Little Miami State Park is approximately 50 miles in length.
Location - Little Miami State Park is a linear tract located in southwest Ohio immediately east of Cincinnati off State Route 48.
www.wildernet.com /pages/area.cfm?areaid=OHSPLI   (1052 words)

  
 Jean Schmidt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Schmidt, born in Cincinnati, Ohio, is a lifelong resident of northwestern Clermont County's Miami Township [1]—the area along the eastern shore of Little Miami River near Milford and Loveland.
Schmidt was elected as a Miami Township trustee in 1989, coming in first of three candidates for two seats and winning 4,362 votes.
In 1993, a panel of Miami Township residents recommended the township incorporate to protect itself from annexations, to have greater control over its territory, and to obtain more money from the state.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jean_Schmidt   (5515 words)

  
 Little Miami River
The river miles placed on topographic maps begin in the middle of the Ohio River (0.0), which is the Kentucky-Ohio border, and proceed upstream.
The OEPA river miles were used for this report because they are the ones used by the Division of Natural Areas and Preserves of the Ohio Department of Natural Resources.
The river mile discrepancies may be attributed to measurement error, changes in the path of the river, as well as the use of different (e.g.
www4.wittenberg.edu /academics/hfs/tmartin/LittleMiami/LittleMiamiRiver.htm   (2571 words)

  
 Little Miami Scenic Trail - Springfield to Milford, Ohio   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Little Miami Scenic Trail - Springfield to Milford, Ohio
Route North (From Xenia Station) - The Little Miami Scenic Trail starts at the Xenia Station and proceeds 9.7 miles North to Yellow Springs Ohio.From there the trail is 7 miles from Yellow Springs to Springfield (I-70).
Miami County Trails Trails in Miami County
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 Sierra Club - Cincinnati Challenge to Sprawl: Little Miami Scenic River
Cincinnati's Little Miami River became Ohio's first State Scenic River in 1969 and a National Wild and Scenic River in 1980 because of its "outstandingly remarkable scenic, recreational, geologic, fish and wildlife, historic, cultural and other values".
The river, the region's only National Wild and Scenic River and only one of three such special rivers in Ohio, is an extraordinary natural treasure in the midst of a major metropolitan area, and decades of citizen efforts have gone into protecting it.
"The river is a real treasure for Ohio and the nation, and is too valuable an asset to compromise for sprawl-inducing freeway expansion." "The effects of construction, operation and development associated with the highway will degrade the water quality and wildlife habitat of the Little Miami," added U.C. Professor Michael Miller.
www.sierraclub.org /epec/cincy/miamiriver   (1018 words)

  
 Little Miami River Partnership
The Little Miami River Partnership is a service-oriented, non-profit, 501 (c) (3), organization
Over the past 22 years he has been actively promoting the restoration and protection of the river ecosystem of the Little Miami National and State Scenic River, a 105 mile long river in Southwest Ohio.
Roy Joe Stuckey, Little Miami River Partnership, Director for Todd Fork and its tributaries, grew up on a dairy farm crossed by Lytle Creek, at the western city limits of Wilmington Ohio.
www.littlemiamiriver.org /about-us.htm   (814 words)

  
 Little Miami River Catering Company
With over 20 years of catering experience and a professional, highly trained staff, Little Miami River Catering Company can provide you with an exceptional event to remember.
With the capabilities to do anything from very elegant, formal dining to fun and crazy backyard barbecues, we will specilaize your event to make it unique to your style.
So for your next event, be it a wedding, company or family function—or just for the fun of it—give us a call, fax, e-mail, or send smoke signals.
www.lmrcatering.com   (197 words)

  
 Little Miami River
Inter-Fluve undertook a feasibility evaluation and prepared a conceptual plan for bioengineered bank stabilization along the Little Miami River; a National and State Wild and Scenic River at Lake Isabella Park near Cincinnati, Ohio.
The site involved a 1,200 foot long reach of eroding bank and levee, in some places 30 feet in height, which separated the river from a man-made lake and marina facilities.
During construction, Inter-Fluve provided periodic oversight during the installation of a bioengineered slope utilizing a stone foundation, internal geogrids, geocell layers, fabric-encapsulated soil lifts, and vegetation.
www.interfluve.com /projects/Bioenginered/LittleMiami.html   (489 words)

  
 EFLM Scenarios   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The drainage area, stream network, and monitored stream segments for the East Fork Little Miami River Watershed have been detailed by the Ohio EPA Division of Surface Water.
According to the Ohio EPA, the East Fork Little Miami River Watershed is impaired by nutrient enrichment, sedimentation, and other habitat and flow alterations.
Such severe river and stream impairments commonly result from human development, inadequate agricultural practices and land use changes in the surrounding area.
tycho.knowlton.ohio-state.edu /efdes.html   (118 words)

  
 Little Miami River clean-up needs volunteers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Volunteers are needed for the 15th Annual Little Miami Scenic River Challenge, the yearly clean-up of litter and debris.
People seem to be getting better about not tossing litter into the river and along its shores, said Don Harmon, an event organizer with the Izaak Walton League, a national organization dedicated to defending and protecting woods, water, wildlife, soil and air.
The river clean-up will cover about 57 miles of the Little Miami, stretching from Greene County through Hamilton County and stopping near Milford in Clermont County, Mr.
www.enquirer.com /editions/1998/06/07/loc_cleanup07.html   (347 words)

  
 Little River Studios - A daylight rental photography studio in Miami, Florida
Little River Studios - A daylight rental photography studio in Miami, Florida
Our unique daylight photography studio complex near downtown Miami, is situated on 71th Street, three blocks west of Biscayne Boulevard.
There are no surrounding buildings higher than one story, so you have sunlight from dawn till dusk.
www.littleriverstudios.com   (75 words)

  
 Little Miami Scenic Trail
With the opening of the trail in October 1991, the spirit of the Little Miami Railroad is resurrected.
The Little Miami Scenic Trail is part of an 80-mile trail network that extends from eastern Cincinnati to Buck Creek State Park near Springfield.
The Little Miami Railroad Company, connecting Cincinnati with Sandusky, was completed in stages, starting in 1837.
www.yellowsprings.com /bikepath.html   (593 words)

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