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	West Virginia DNR - West Virginia Wildlife Management Areas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Tug Fork River is the northern border of the area and supports a warmwater fishery.
		Beech Fork Lake WMA (7,531 acres) Cabell and Wayne counties.
		Hughes River WMA (10,000 acres) Ritchie and Wirt counties.
	www.wvdnr.gov /Hunting/WMAAreas.shtm (10528 words)

	Untitled Document
		The Tug Fork of the Big Sandy River traces portions of three states in its 130 mile journey through the region's deep valleys.
		The Tug Valley not only played an important role in the development of the region and the nation by contributing rich resources of coal and timber to the country's industrial growth over the last century, but also left an indelible perception of Appalachia on the nation's people.
		He was tall, stooped shouldered, with a fl beard and a prominent hook nose, and had the reputation in the community as being a formidable figure.
	www.tugvalleychamberofcommerce.com /tour.html (1442 words)

	"Hoh River, Washington - Great Rivers - Angler's OnLine"
		The Hoh River is born on the flanks of Mr.
		The North Fork, which is fed by Mt. Tom Glacier, Tom and Clacier creeks, (Tom Creek is often called the "Middle Fork" of the Hoh) and the South fork, fed by Humes Glacier.
		Rivers drain all sides of the Olympics, but it is the western flowing rivers that host the largest anadromous fish returns.
	www.flyanglersonline.com /features/greatrivers/hoh (2953 words)

	Search Results for "Tug"
		Tug Fork, river, 154 mi/248 km long, S W.Va., E Ky., and SW Va.; rises in E McDowell co., S W.Va.; flows generally NW, past Welch; forms Va.-W.Va. state line for...
		Games A contest of strength in which two teams tug on opposite ends of a rope, each trying to pull the other across a dividing...
		In allusion to the tug or boat so called, or to tugging at the oars.
	www.bartleby.com /cgi-bin/texis/webinator/sitesearch?FILTER=&query=Tug (316 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Headwaters downstream to confluence of Douglas Fork - tributary of Elk River
		downstream of Sugargrove Creek at the confluence of an unnamed trib - tributary of Meadow River of Gauley River
		Tributary of Muddlety Creek of Gauley River - from headwaters downstream to Rt 119.
	www.dep.state.wv.us /dwwm/antideg/new4web.htm (1652 words)

	Tug Fork River
		The Tug Fork River (also called simply the Tug Fork or the Tug Fork of the Big Sandy River) is a tributary of the Big Sandy River, 154 mi (248 km) long, in southwestern West Virginia, southwestern Virginia, and in eastern Kentucky in the United States.
		The river flows through an especially remote mountainous region in its upper course.
		The river valley between Pike County, Kentucky and Mingo County, West Virginia was the scene of the famous Hatfield-McCoy feud in the late 19th century.
	publicliterature.org /en/wikipedia/t/tu/tug_fork_river.html (243 words)

	Big Sandy River - West Virginia (WV) Cyclopedia
		The Big Sandy is formed by the union of the Tug and Levisa Forks at Lousia, Kentucky, from which point it flows in a northerly direction to the Ohio River at Catlettsburg, Kentucky.
		Both the Tug and Levisa Forks have their sources on the western slopes of the Appalachian Mountains in the extreme western end of Virginia.
		Tug Fork, from its sources flows in a northwesterly direction to its mount at Louisa.
	www.wvexp.com /index.php/Big_Sandy_River (351 words)

	Tug Fork - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Tug Fork at Williamson, West Virginia in 1996.
		The Tug Fork is a tributary of the Big Sandy River, 154 mi (248 km) long, in southwestern West Virginia, southwestern Virginia, and eastern Kentucky in the United States.
		The Tug Fork rises in the Appalachian Mountains of extreme southwestern West Virginia, in southern McDowell County, near the Virginia state line.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tug_Fork_River (376 words)

	YELLOW POPLAR LUMBER COMPANY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The 126-mile Tug Fork River of the Big Sandy River has its source in Tazewell County, Virginia and flows in a northwestern direction through McDowell and Mingo Counties, West Virginia and forms the boundary between West Virginia and Kentucky above Fort Gay.
		The Little River of Virginia is a tributary of the New River which empties into nearby Clayton Lake.
		Preston did a great deal of surveying on the Tug Fork River and the Big Sandy River and he may have told Moses and Obedience Parsley about the area which was abundant with game, particularly bear.
	webpages.marshall.edu /~rfry/yellow.html (2573 words)

	McDowell County Land Grants
		Dry Fork Sandy 1862 Brittain, Rufus Horse Pen 1861 Cline, Michael Horse Creek 1860 Collins, Edward Slate Creek 1860 Cox, Montgomery Tug River 1860 Cox, Montgomery Horse Creek 1860 Cox, Montgomery George Camp Br.
		Tug River 1861 Charles, John Slate Creek 1861 Collins, Jacob Sandy 1861 Cartwright, Moses A. Little Cub 1861 Cartwright, Moses A. Sugar Camp Br.
		Fork of Trap Fork 1868 Bailey, Zachariah East Fork of Tug 1868 Bailey, Cloyd Jonacoke Branch 1868 Bentley, James B. Little War Creek 1868 Bentley, James B. Head Club Fork 1868 Cline, Michael Wts.
	www.mcdowellwv.com /landnames.html (474 words)

	history (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The Tug Fork Valley was occupied by Native Americans more than 200 years before Europiens arrived.
		The Tug River was given it's name when the ill-fated Sandy Creek (Big Sandy) Expedition of 1756 attempted to use the Big Sandy corridor as a means of carrying welfare into the heart of the Indian country, with disastrous results.
		In the 1790's Americans began to settle permanently along the Tug Fork river.Supplementing their agriculture by hunting game in the hills.
	www.historicmatewanhouse.com /history.html (585 words)

	[No title]
		One of Martin County Water District’s intake structure is on Tug Fork of the Big Sandy River.
		The Tug Fork of the Big Sandy River forms a geographical boundary that separates Kentucky and West Virginia.
		Two major roadways are located parallel to the Tug Fork River, KY 292 which runs from the intersection of KY 3 near Lawrence County south through Martin County and US 52 located in West Virginia.
	www.water.ky.gov /NR/rdonlyres/24C5F8B8-4154-4CBF-9F0B-3B2E8D9D9428/0/PWS0800273ccr1_2.doc (776 words)

	My Hometown
		Located in the Tug Fork of the Big Sandy River, Matewan was founded in 1897 when Norfolk and Western Railroad entered the valley to open the Williamson Coalfield.
		Ellison was carried across the Tug Fork River, and died at the Anderson Ferrell House.
		I have a vivid memory of living on the Kentucky side - on the banks of Tug River, directly across from the City of Matewan.
	members.tripod.com /~thehattie1/index-7.html (1112 words)

	Flood tests spirit of survival in Appalachia \| csmonitor.com
		NORTHFORK, W. - For the second time in 10 months, residents of the Appalachian coal towns along the Tug Fork river were digging out from a devastating flood over the weekend and talking about rebuilding their lives and homes and businesses.
		Tug Fork, which separates West Virginia and Kentucky, crested Friday at nearly 20 feet above flood stage after a night of heavy rain.
		The overflow rushed through the little towns stretched out along Route 52 – just as had happened in July – and left a sense of weariness among people who for generations have entrusted their fate to God, nature, and coal.
	www.csmonitor.com /2002/0506/p04s01-ussc.htm (562 words)

	Time Trail, West Virginia, January 1998 Programs
		The conflict between the Hatfields of West Virginia and the McCoys of Kentucky is the most famous of a series of feuds in Appalachia in the late nineteenth century.
		Rivers and canals were among the few available means of transportation in the early 1800s.
		In 1852, the Baltimore and Ohio reached the Ohio River at Wheeling, sparking an economic boom in northern West Virginia.
	www.wvculture.org /history/timetrl/ttjan.html (6764 words)

	List of West Virginia rivers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This is a list of rivers in the U.S. state of West Virginia.
		Though relatively few in number, rivers have traditionally provided easy avenues of transportation through the rough terrain of the Mountain State, first by Native Americans and later by European settlers.
		Even today, the larger rivers transport large volumes of commercial goods, while the smaller ones provide recreational opportunities such as canoeing, fishing, swimming, and white-water rafting.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_West_Virginia_rivers (232 words)

	Blue Ridge Country
		Men bred from the rugged individuals who scorned the courtesies and restrictions of their native, stifling Virginia society and chose to strike out for open spaces to the west, a wilderness where they could be free.
		Here in the mountain terrain among the wildest in eastern America, the twisting Tug Fork River sliced West Virginia's Logan (now Mingo) County with its Hatfields and Kentucky's Pike County with its McCoys into separate and independent-minded states.
		On either side of the river, men stepped forward to assume the mantle of leadership for their kin.
	www.blueridgecountry.com /hatmac/hatmac.html (2701 words)

	News releases for July 2002
		The Cumberland River from Fourmile Bridge (Highway 2014) to Pineville at the Highway 66 Bridge and from Wallins Creek Bridge (Highway 219) to Harlan.
		The swimming advisory continues for the North Fork of the Kentucky River upstream of Chavies.
		The Licking River from Banklick Creek to the confluence with the Ohio River remains under a swimming advisory.
	www.water.ky.gov /homepage_repository/july02.htm (1233 words)

	ATSDR - Health Consultation - Williamson, WV Sites (a/k/a Williamson Area), Williamson, Mingo County, West Virginia
		The Williamson water intake is located on the Tug Fork River approximately 3 miles downstream from the mouth of Lick Creek.
		This landfill is on the north bank of Lick Creek near its mouth at the Tug Fork River.
		The natural movement of the groundwater, however, is thought to be toward the Tug Fork River and away from all the residences in the area (Figure 3).
	www.atsdr.cdc.gov /HAC/pha/williamson/wil_p1.html (7562 words)

	KY: Kentucky Dept Fish and Wildlife - Kentucky's Smallmouth Streams
		Forks of Elkhorn to KY 1962 Lemons Mill Road bridge crossing
		Forks of the Elkhorn to KY 341 bridge crossing
		Backwaters of the Ohio River to KY 338 Idle Road bridge crossing
	fw.ky.gov /smallmouthstreams.asp?lid=1140&NavPath=C101 (334 words)

	Allegheny Plateau: Building Regional Partnerships
		The Tug Valley Riverway, an RTCA-assisted project connecting a system of trails, recreation areas, historic sites, and natural areas along the Tug Fork River, was the result of one of the strategies.
		RTCA assisted with the organization of the Mon Valley Green Space Coalition that is building bike/pedestrian access trails to the 51-mile rail-trail that is a major spine through the Morgantown region.
		RTCA helped with development of a strategic plan and public involvement on the "River of Promise," a dedication to action for restoration of the Cheat River shared by 24 state and federal agencies, local officials, non-profits, and industries that committed over $2 million for acid mine drainage remediation, environmental education, interpretation, and public outreach.
	www.nps.gov /phso/rtca/alleghen.htm (499 words)

	SparkNotes: The Bean Trees: Chapter Four: Tug Fork Water
		It is water from the Tug Fork River, where Lou Ann was baptized, and Granny instructs Lou Ann to baptize Dwayne Ray with it.
		When he sees the bottle of Tug Fork water in the bathroom, Angel asks Lou Ann what it is and then pours it down the drain after hearing that it is Kentucky water for Dwayne Ray’s baptism.
		The Tug Fork water becomes associated with Lou Ann, symbolizing her connection to her family.
	www.sparknotes.com /lit/beantrees/section3.rhtml (795 words)

	11/11/99
		Acid Mine Drainage (AMD) problem is one such environmental damages associated with active as well as abandoned coal mines and is attributed to be one of the major point and non-point sources of pollution for West Virginia watersheds, streams and tributaries.
		Watersheds are defined as the naturally occurring water catchment area or zones of a river, lake, estuary, wetland or stream.
		The landscape of West Virginia is divided into 342 such watersheds of varying size, topography, climate conditions, and AMD potential (Figure 1).
	www.nrac.wvu.edu /RESM493/fall1999/students/ali/Index.html (3262 words)

	Advanced Hydrologic Prediction Service: Charleston: Tug Fork River at Litwar
		This probabilistic forecast is issued by the Ohio River Forecast Center.
		Forecasts for the Tug Fork River at Litwar are issued routinely year-round.
		County route 1 is flooded in low areas along the river from the Litwar bridge down to Panther.
	newweb.erh.noaa.gov /ahps2/weekly.php?wfo=rlx&gage=litw2&view=1,1,1,1,1,1 (126 words)

	Fueds & Range Wars - Mountain Feuds (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Men learn to quarrel with one another in the same way they learn to sit a horse or talk to a woman; that is, from their dads.
		The Hatfields lived on the West Virginia side of Tug Fork, and the McCoys lived on the Kentucky side.
		Both families were part of the first wave of pioneers to settle the Tug Valley.
	www.jcs-group.com /oldwest/outside/mountain.html (2230 words)

	Bitts & Bytes - Little River Books Newsletter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		According to Dan Owen's "Inland River Record," the LIL CHARLEY was built in Greenville, Miss., in 1970, and is 65 feet long by 24 feet wide, with 1,000 horsepower from two GM 12V-71 diesels.
		The flood gates at Williamson, W.Va., along the banks of the Tug Fork River, were closed for the first time since they were put in 18 years ago, but not before parts of the community of 3,400 were already swamped.
		The JAG (#40-11) was taken at Spottsville, Ky., on April 17, 1975, at around Mile 9 on the Green River, as she was heading out on her first and, I think, only trip to the Green River.
	www.littleriverbooks.com /bb051002.htm (5825 words)

	Williamson, West Virginia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Williamson is a city in Mingo County, West Virginia, USA, along the Tug Fork River.
		The city is protected by a floodwall, completed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in 1984 in response to a devastating flood along the Tug Fork River in 1977.
		Floodgates were also built on the river's main entrance to Williamson, to completely close the city from floodwaters.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Williamson,_West_Virginia (500 words)

	Martin, Kentucky Redevelopment Plan
		Flood proofing is an important flood plain management measure that can be used to reduce flood damages to buildings and their contents.
		The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has several, documented successes of flood proofing in the Tug Fork River Basin, which are summarized below and described in the 1994 document, Flood Proofing Technology in the Tug Fork Valley.
		The town of Grundy, Virginia is currently in the implementation phase of flood control measures and is the only approved nonstructural project in the Levisa Fork basin.
	www.martinredevelopment.com /voluntary_fpp/other_communities.aspx (419 words)

	Russell v. Bush & Burchett, Inc., et al., Nos. 28398 & 28720
		Russell was working for BandB on the DOH's Tug Fork bridge project, the cable of a crane released, causing an 800-pound “headache ball” to fall and strike Mr.
		Russell was struck by the headache ball was on the Kentucky end” of the Tug Fork bridge, and that Mr.
		This requirement by the DOH strongly evidences an affirmative public policy of this State, clearly communicated to BandB, that all persons working on the Tug Fork bridge project would have all of the benefits of West Virginia workers' compensation law, including its “deliberate intention” provisions.
	www.state.wv.us /wvsca/docs/fall01/28398.htm (4008 words)

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