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  West Virginia - Wild and Wonderful - West Virginia Travel, Recreation, Whitewater, Real Estate, Lodging, State Parks
Hugging the Ohio River, the slender Northern Panhandle whispers with history: of the ancient Adena people; of the pioneers who traveled west along the National Road; of the debates that gave birth to West Virginia during the Civil War; of the turn-of-the-century boom that spawned extravagant homes in Wheeling and Sistersville.
The 1783 mansion of Alexander Campbell - statesman, businessman, editor, preacher and philosopher - is a historic jewel in the town of Bethany.
The Northern Panhandle remains a lively crossroads - of highways and rivers, of fanciful Victorian architecture and down-home jamboree, of city treasures and country pleasures...
www.westvirginia.com /northern   (501 words)

  
  Idaho Panhandle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Idaho Panhandle is the northern region of the U.S. State of Idaho that encompasses the ten northernmost counties of Benewah, Bonner, Boundary, Clearwater, Idaho, Kootenai, Latah, Lewis, Nez Perce, Shoshone.
The panhandle is bordered by Washington state to the west, Montana to the east and British Columbia, Canada to the north.
The Idaho Panhandle became infamous in 1992 with the siege at Ruby Ridge between Randy Weaver and federal authorities.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Idaho_Panhandle   (299 words)

  
 Northern Panhandle of West Virginia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Northern Panhandle is a region in the U.S. state of West Virginia.
Most West Virginians also include Wetzel County, directly to the south of Marshall County, as a part of the Northern Panhandle, although it does not lie strictly within the northern extension.
In the late 19th century, the Northern Panhandle developed as a mostly industrial area.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Northern_Panhandle_of_West_Virginia   (228 words)

  
 Panhandle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A panhandle is geometrically similar to a peninsula, but where a peninsula is surrounded by water, a panhandle is usually surrounded by other states or political entities.
The "panhandle" shape is usually the result of politically-established boundaries, though it may partly be influenced by geographic features such as mountain ranges.
The Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railway was often called the Panhandle, as it crossed the Northern Panhandle of West Virginia.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Panhandle   (163 words)

  
 Bobwhite Quail Management
Northern Bobwhite (Colinus virginianus) are found throughout the Central and eastern United States from Minnesota and Massachusetts south to Florida and the Gulf Coast; and from Wyoming and southern Ontario, Mexico, parts of Central America, and Cuba.
In the eastern Panhandle, Northern Bobwhite typically occur in scrub oak woodland, riparian woodland, and in juniper-oak woodland.
Northern Bobwhite also are dependent upon "edges" where they can move quickly between nesting, watering, and feeding habitats, and escape cover, such that changing from one activity to another constitutes a quick walk or flight of a few seconds duration.
www.tpwd.state.tx.us /landwater/land/habitats/high_plains/upland_game/bobwhite.phtml?print=false   (2733 words)

  
 NORTHERN PANHANDLE
In the Northern Panhandle, the larger communities are in the Benwood/Wheeling area, home to approximately 175 Croatian families, and in Weirton which is home to approximately 150 families.
The Northern Panhandle is home to a large and active Serbian community in the vicinity of Weirton and neighboring Steubenville, Ohio.
Nearly 55% of West Virginia's Ukrainian community resides in the Northern Panhandle, with approximately 30% in Ohio County, 11% in Hancock, and 8% in Marshall County.
www.wvculture.org /arts/ethnic/northpan.html   (4109 words)

  
 Northern Panhandle   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Most West Virginians also include Wetzel County directly to the south of Marshall as a part of the Northern Panhandle it does not lie strictly within the extension.
In the late 19th century the Northern Panhandle developed as a industrial area.
Northern Light is another example of how bands are pushed out of the limelight when they stop producing "sounds good on the first listen hits": the average listener with a 30 second attention span stops listening.
www.freeglossary.com /Northern_Panhandle   (500 words)

  
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Approximately 900 individuals in the Northern Panhandle claim Greek as their sole ancestry, and 1400 individuals of multiple ancestry claim Greek as their primary heritage.
Except for residents of the northern Panhandle, Floridians are often transplanted Northerners and historically Democrat.
The Coeur d'Alene Mountains in the northern Panhandle lie to the west of the Bitterroot Mountain Range.
www.lycos.com /info/northern-panhandle.html   (341 words)

  
 Idaho Panhandle
The Panhandle is a land of spectacular lakes, rivers, hills, mountains, verdant valleys, family farms, forests and small towns.
The northern most area of the Panhandle, Boundary and Bonner Counties, is perhaps the most distinctive and scenic in the state of Idaho.
With their respective towns of Bonners Ferry and Sandpoint, the counties offer a broad and varied spectrum of sites to choose from whether it is for a period piece, a contemporary drama with a rural flavor, or recreational sports shoots.
www.idaholocations.net /panhandle.htm   (762 words)

  
 State Statistical Report A21   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Northern growers started working land for spring planting of field crops and potato digging increased in southern Peninsula areas during late January.
Sugarcane harvesting in the Everglades and tobacco transplanting in the Panhandle and northern Peninsula region were virtually finished by mid-April.
Abundant rainfall during November over the Panhandle and northern Peninsula boosted the growth of small grains but continued to reduce the quality and yield of cotton and peanuts with harvesting in some counties severely delayed.
www.nass.usda.gov /fl/facts/faf03/a21.htm   (1906 words)

  
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Northern Rocky Mountain Wolf Recovery Plan: A document prepared by a team of individuals with expertise regarding the biological and habitat requirements of the gray wolf, outlining the tasks/actions recommended to recover the species within parts of its former range in the Rocky Mountain region.
It is the Service's intention to manage wolves in northwestern Montana and the northern panhandle of Idaho in a way that allows nondepredating wolves to be the "building blocks" of the population.
Therefore, this policy will be implemented in NW Montana and the northern panhandle of Idaho for the next 3 years or until reclassification of the wolf under the Act occurs.
www.r6.fws.gov /wolf/interim_plan999/wolfcnt.htm   (7383 words)

  
 Alaska Panhandle   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Ketchikan is located in the 500-mile long Alaska Panhandle with no railroad or road access except at the extreme north end.
The Alaska panhandle is the coast of the American state of Alaska, just west of the British Columbia province of Canada.
The Panhandle includes the Tongass National Forest, Glacier Bay National Park, Alaska's Inside Passage, and a myriad of islands.
www.wikiverse.org /alaska-panhandle   (251 words)

  
 Handbook of Texas Online:
Cattlemen whose pastures were endangered resolved to end future incursions by building fences across the northern limit of their ranges.
The enclosure of pastures may have led to the discovery that a fence across the northern line of a range would protect it from drift cattle and that local cattle could be kept on the home range by a fence across the southern line.
All cattlemen in the northern Panhandle strung drift fences.
www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/PP/aoput.html   (619 words)

  
 Panhandle Florida   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
This is about the topographical term; when used as a verb, panhandle means to approach strangers and beg for money.
A panhandle is a geographic term for a long and usually thin projectionof a U.S. state.
The Panhandoe shape is usually the result of politically-established boundaries, though it may partly be influenced bygeographic features such as mountain ranges.
www.musicians-resource.com /site/27109-panhandle-florida.html   (215 words)

  
 Northern Panhandle Green Party - County Fair Opinion Poll Media Release   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The Northern Panhandle Green Party tallied the results of the opinion poll it conducted during the Bonner County Fair and came up with some surprising results.
On economic issues, 53% stated their wages were not high enough to cover their family's needs, and 56% felt that housing is not affordable in the northern panhandle.
The Northern Panhandle Green Party is a chapter of the Idaho Green Party, which is fielding three candidates for the Idaho Legislature this November.
www.ivy7.com /bonner/fairpoll.htm   (450 words)

  
 Weirton Trades Steel for Slots
But the Northern Panhandle has seen an explosion of the electronic games, and in at least one community people are hurting.
The Northern Panhandle's two racetrack casinos have made billions for the state, and made the region famous for legal gambling.
One Northern Panhandle resident said he didn't know that his wife had developed a gambling habit until he discovered he owed credit card companies almost $10,000.
www.wboy.com /story.cfm?func=viewstory&storyid=1890   (617 words)

  
 Nygaard Promotions - Northern Panhandle, ID   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The Northern Panhandle of Idaho - a land that has it all: lush, dense forests, fertile valleys, lakes and rivers, recreation, quiet communities, temperate climate.
Uncrowded and uncomplicated, the Northern Panhandle offers a quality of life that suits varied lifestyles and businesses.
Located on the northern shore of Lake Pend Oreille, with the dramatic backdrop of the Selkirk Mountains, Sandpoint is ideally situated making it a fantastic four-season paradise.
www.alldirectionsreloguide.com /panhandle.html   (306 words)

  
 Chapter 1   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The Eastern Panhandle's valleys are devoted primarily to orchards and, further to the west, to chicken and cattle raising.
Like most other counties the Eastern Panhandle counties are concerned about attracting high-paying jobs, but their rapid growth has also forced them to deal with problems that accompany rapid growth, such as overextended water and sewer systems, that threaten their quality of life and their rural heritage.
The Northern Panhandle, Monongahela Basin (except Barbour, Randolph, and Tucker Counties), West Central Counties (except Calhoun, Gilmer, and Roane Counties), and Charleston-Huntington area voted for allegiance to the Union.
www.polsci.wvu.edu /ipa/PS321/CHAP-1.htm   (7582 words)

  
 Villagers > Research History > Panhandle Pueblo Culture
This hand-drawn map of the northern Texas Panhandle was made by Floyd Studer and published by Warren King Moorehead in 1931.
Detail of Hutchinson County area of Studer’s 1931 map of the northern Panhandle that was published by Moorehead.
The Texas Panhandle Pueblo Culture apparently originated from the pottery-making people who appeared on the Central Plains after 900 A.D., reaching the valley of the Canadian some two or three centuries later.
www.texasbeyondhistory.net /villagers/research/culture.html   (4275 words)

  
 Water Vote Bucks Conservation - Science - RedOrbit   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Mar. 14--Water users in the northern Panhandle will be able to pump more water than others in the region.
The Panhandle Water Planning Group wants to deplete no more than 50 percent of the water in the aquifer in 50 years instead.
Williams is also manager of the Panhandle Groundwater Conservation District, which covers much of the Panhandle southeast of the NPGCD.
www.redorbit.com /news/science/870416/water_vote_bucks_conservation/index.html?source=r_science   (586 words)

  
 Northern Panhandle Has Projects Other Than Cabela's
Posted 9/15/2005 06:00 AM Between 1999 and 2004, the four counties in the Northern Panhandle received and spent about $54 million from the West Virginia Development Office.
But it certainly is not the only thing economic developers have been working on to increase the number of jobs and improve the quality of life in the Northern Panhandle.
Between 1999 and 2004, the four counties in the Northern Panhandle received and spent about $54 million from the West Virginia Development Office.
www.statejournal.com /story.cfm?func=viewstory&storyid=5190   (608 words)

  
 Northern Panhandle Field - West Virginia (WV) Cyclopedia
The Northern Panhandle Field is the name used to describe a coal producing section of West Virginia that includes the following counties, in whole or it part: Ohio, Brooke, Hancock, and Marshall counties.
The mining of coal began in about 1800 in the Northern Panhandle field to supply the needs of the early iron and pottery operations established along the Ohio River near Wheeling, WV during that period.
Early records of shipment of coal outside these local markets are virtually nonexistant, apparently not beginning on any scale until after the arrival of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (http://www.wvrailroads.net/index.php/Baltimore_%26_Ohio_Railroad) (BandO) to Wheeling in 1853.
www.wvexp.com /index.php/Northern_Panhandle_Field   (120 words)

  
 Northern Panhandle Home Consortium - Providing Solutions For Affordable Housing For First-Time Home Buyers
The Northern Panhandle HOME Consortium was established to create affordable housing opportunities in the Northern Panhandle of West Virginia.
The Northern Panhandle HOME Consortium is an agency set up to help the first-time home buyer with financial assistance in buying a house.
The Northern Panhandle HOME Consortium has developed a "First-time Homebuyer Program", in compliance with Federal guidelines, to provide up to $10,000 of down payment and closing cost assistance to income-qualified first-time homebuyers who purchase a home in Hancock, Brooke, Ohio and Marshall counties, and the cities of Wheeling and Weirton, West Virginia.
www.nphomeassist.org   (213 words)

  
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Topsoil and subsoil moisture supplies are short to adequate in the Panhandle, very short to short in the northern Peninsula and short to mostly adequate in the central and southern Peninsula.
Most surface ponds in the Panhandle and northern Peninsula are low.
Most pasture in the Panhandle and in the central and southern Peninsula is rated fair to good.
www.nass.usda.gov /fl/wc/2004/wc041204.txt   (613 words)

  
 Idaho Panhandle Properties - Real Estate for Hunting and Fishing
A refuge for the skier, hunter, backpacker and trout fisherman.
The Panhandle of North Idaho offers campers and adventurers a full spectrum of outdoor destinations, whether your favorite locale be inspiring mountain ranges or crystaline clear lakes, rivers and waterfalls.
The "green gold" of the panhandle is white pine, western red cedar, Douglas fir, and ponderosa pine.
www.idahopanhandle.com   (524 words)

  
 Travel West Virginia - Wild and Wonderful - Guide to West Virginia Travel, Recreation, White water, Real Estate, ...
A pre-Revolutionary outpost and stop along the National Road's path to the western frontier, the town was a port of entry during the 18th and 19th centuries and later a Victorian center of glass, steel and textiles.
From the tip of the Panhandle to its base and continuing into the Mid-Ohio Valley river region, a series of islands dot the Ohio River, forming the Ohio River Islands National Wildlife Refuge.
Throughout the Northern Panhandle, wildlife for hunters and anglers is also abundant in easily accessible public hunting and fishing areas.
www.westvirginia.com /northern/articles.htm   (1874 words)

  
 Northern Panhandle Bed and Breakfasts - West Virginia Bed and Breakfast Inns from Pamela Lanier
Northern Panhandle Bed and Breakfasts - West Virginia Bed and Breakfast Inns from Pamela Lanier
For over 20 years, Pamela Lanier's Travel Guides have been the savvy travelers' key to great deals on quality, romantic Northern Panhandle bed and breakfast lodging and country inns.
Search our database of Northern Panhandle B&B's and you'll find detailed listings, current rates, and special deals for bed and breakfasts in Northern Panhandle, West Virginia.
www.lanierbb.com /West_Virginia/_Northern_Panhandle/index.html   (95 words)

  
 EPA Brownfields Grants, Brooke-Hancock-Jefferson Metropolitan Planning Commission, Northern Panhandle, WV
Brooke-Hancock-Jefferson Metropolitan Planning Commission, Northern Panhandle, WV EPA's Brownfields Program empowers states, communities, and other stakeholders in economic development to work together to prevent, assess, safely clean up, and sustainably reuse brownfields.
A brownfield site is real property, the expansion, redevelopment, or reuse of which may be complicated by the presence or potential presence of a hazardous substance, pollutant, or contaminant.
The commission has targeted about 30 potential brownfields in two rural counties in the northern panhandle of West Virginia, which is part of Appalachia.
www.epa.gov /swerosps/bf/03grants/northpan_wv.htm   (431 words)

  
 birding facts Birding Resources by the Fat Birder
At some juncture before the United States reached it`s current geo-political size, it was said of West Virginia, Its the most northern of the southern states, the most southern of the northern states, the most eastern of the western states and the most western of the eastern states.
Principal rivers in the Allegheny region are the Ohio along the western border and northern panhandle, the New, Kanawha, and Gauley in the south and the Monongahela, Cheat and Tygart in the north-central region.
The eastern panhandle and southwestern area of the state contain extensive enough tracts of pine that Pine Warblers nest regularly.
www.fatbirder.com /links_geo/america_united_states/west_virginia.html   (1901 words)

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