Wylye
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Wylye Wilts.
Wilig 901,
Wili 1086 (
DB). Named from the River Wylye, a pre-English river-name possibly meaning ‘tricky stream’, i.e. one liable to flood.
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Wilderness protection campaign begins in West Virginia.
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News; 9/3/2004; 700+ words
; ...part of the national wilderness system. Under a wilderness designation, hunting...allowed, but logging, road building, campground...half mile of improved road for each 1,000 acres...Monongahela National Forest wilderness areas -- Cranberry...
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WILDERNESS STUDIES TIMETABLE FREE ROAMING HORSES AND BURROS:WILLIAM H. MEADOWS
Transcript from: Congressional Testimony; 10/28/1999; 700+ words
; ...importance and values of wilderness, it is crucial that...America's remaining wilderness- quality lands be protected...use, construction, road building, mining, logging...past several years, The Wilderness Society has annually...
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Wilderness protection campaign begins
Newspaper article from: Charleston Gazette; 9/3/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...part of the national wilderness system. Under a wilderness designation, hunting...allowed, but logging, road building, campground...half mile of improved road for each 1,000 acres...Monongahela National Forest wilderness areas - Cranberry...
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WILDERNESS LEGISLATION:JOEL HOLTROP
Transcript from: Congressional Testimony; 11/13/2007; 700+ words
; ...Mountain National Park Wilderness and Indian Peaks Wilderness...opportunities. There are few roads, and the Forest Service...the current Pajarita Wilderness, and some 5 miles of...Tumacacori Highlands Wilderness. This area is currently...
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Wilderness tomorrow. (managing wilderness areas)
Magazine article from: American Forests; 7/1/1989; ; 700+ words
; ...agriculture and buildings and roads. The Great Gulf Wilderness will stand out in New...as an area without roads, houses, and other...8 million acres of Wilderness in the U.S. stand...and 24 National Park Wilderness Areas that were established...related values in Wildernesses. In
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WILDERNESS LEGISLATION:WAYNE ALLARD
Transcript from: Congressional Testimony; 11/13/2007; 700+ words
; ...to designate the Spanish Peaks Wilderness we had to cherry stem the Bulls Eye Mine Road. A cherry stemmed road in a wilderness area is not typical but in this...its creation. In regard to a Wilderness designation for Rock Mountain...
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Wilderness Act Holds Up After 40 Years
News Wire article from: AP Online; 9/2/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...biking, commercial logging, road-building, oil and gas...pass two proposals for new wilderness, Radanovich said. Those...000 acres dubbed the Ojito wilderness near Albuquerque, N.M...the nation is protected as wilderness, in what author Wallace...the geography of hope." Wildernesses range ...
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Wilderness is a gift to all of us, and our responsibility
Newspaper article from: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; 9/12/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...fundamental premise of the Wilderness Act is that the process of building roads is a death sentence...vehicles are allowed in wilderness areas. That means no off-road vehicles, no snowmobiles...hunting is prohibited in wilderness areas managed by the...
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Wilderness Areas: Studies in Solitude; 4 Tracts Added to National Forests in Va.
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 7/28/1988; ; 700+ words
; ...the Barbours Creek wilderness. Knee-high sassafras...hatchery-bred trout. Roads and motor vehicles are banned from wilderness areas, and the...ve got too many roads, too much access...We figured {the wilderness status} would save...
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Wilderness Society: Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee Sends Damaging San Rafael Swell Bill to the Floor
Newspaper article from: U.S. Newswire; 7/13/2000; 700+ words
; ...area from off-road vehicle damage...director, The Wilderness Society. "What...destruction by off-road vehicles; -- Designates no wilderness at all...weaken off-road vehicle protection...truly protect the wilderness quality lands...
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Wilderness, battles of the
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
WILDERNESS, BATTLES OF THE WILDERNESS...however, countered rapidly. Road divergence separated his two...movement, and the narrow roads were little more than paths...Gallagher, Gary W., ed. The Wilderness Campaign. Chapel Hill: University...Victory Without Triumph: The Wilderness, May ...
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Wilderness to Petersburg Campaign
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Military History
...Confederates out of the Wilderness. While J. E. B. Stuart...Bibliography Edward Steeve , The Wilderness Campaign , 1960. Gordon...Rhea , The Battle of the Wilderness: May 5–6...Spotsylvania Courthouse and the Road to Yellow Tavern, May...
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Wilderness Road
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
WILDERNESS ROAD WILDERNESS ROAD ran from eastern Virginia through the mountain pass known...of settlers moved west through these converging highways. The Wilderness Road is still an important interstate roadway and constitutes a part...
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Wilderness, Battle of the
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Military History
...1864).The Battle of the Wilderness, fought on 5 and 6 May 1864...and camping in the forested Wilderness of Spotsylvania. Lee reacted...Corps east along Orange Plank Road. Lee's purpose was to pin...risk, but Lee counted on the Wilderness's dense underbrush to offset...
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Nongovernmental Organizations (NGOs)
Book article from: Pollution A to Z
...million acres of land in the united states. wilderness society 1935 $14,700,000 protect the remaining wilderness in the united states by keeping roads, loggers, and oil drilling efforts out of wilderness areas. helped block oil exploration near...
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