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Trees planted along recreational trail near W.Va. 9 MARTINSBURG, W.Va. — More than 50 trees have been planted along the Eastern Panhandle Recreational Trail along W.Va. 9 in the last 12 months thanks to a collaborative effort of volunteers and...Tags: Forestry and Timber, Franklin County (Pennsylvania), Science and Technology, West Nile Virus, Natural Resource Industry
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Arbor Day Foundation offering free trees
Add color to your landscape year-round by joining the Arbor Day Foundation in August. Everyone who joins the nonprofit Arbor Day Foundation with a $10 donation will receive 10 free white, flowering dogwood trees through the Foundation’s Trees for...Tags: Forestry and Timber
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3,335 without power in Washington County, more in surrounding areas
Following a day of record-setting heat, a tornado warning and a thunderstorm watch were in effect Friday night for different parts of Washington County, the National Weather Service said. The National Weather Service issued the tornado warning for the...
Tags: Natural Resources, Franklin (Franklin, Virginia), Weather Warnings, Environmental Issues
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Eastern Panhandle residents continue to endure storm's wrath
davem@herald-mail.comThousands of Eastern Panhandle, W.Va., residents still reeling from violent storms Friday night struggled through another day without electricity Sunday as temperatures soared into the 90s and the humidity reached as high as 96 percent in parts of the...Tags: Career and Workplace, Weather Reports, Natural Resources, Weather, Employees
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Death toll from summer storms reaches 22; about 2 million still without power
Associated PressMillions of people in a swath of states along the East Coast and farther west went into a third sweltering day without power Monday after a round of summer storms that killed more than a dozen people. The outages left many to contend with stifling...Tags: Commuting, Ronald Reagan, Government, Vehicles, Falls Church (Falls Church, Virginia)
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Letter to the Editor - June 12
The planet we’re (not) leaving to our children To the editor: I read Richard Giovanoni’s letter (May 24) with puzzlement. I was unsure of his point, which seemed to favor uncontrolled population growth. What caught my eye, however, were his...Tags: Natural Resources, Science and Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Conservation, Natural Resource Industry
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Hagerstown scoffs at price tag for reducing pollution to bay
cj.lovelace@herald-mail.comWith Washington County municipalities facing $1.1 billion in suggested upgrades for wastewater, stormwater and septic systems by 2025, Hagerstown Mayor Robert E. Bruchey had a incredulous reaction Tuesday to the city’s projected $210 million share...Tags: Environmental Politics, Natural Resources, Hagerstown (Washington, Maryland), Forestry and Timber, Environmental Pollution
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Hagerstown Lions Club, forestry service help E. Russell Hicks students plant 78 trees
On April 17 and 18, a group of Hagerstown Lions Club members met at E. Russell Hicks Middle School and with the help of the Maryland Forest Service, staff at E. Russell Hicks and more than 230 students, planted 78 trees on the school grounds. The project...
Tags: Education, Teaching and Learning, Natural Resources, Hagerstown (Washington, Maryland), Forestry and Timber
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Penn State nursing and forestry students practice trauma scenario
roxann.miller@herald-mail.com“Help, I’m hurt,” screamed Jason Owings, who laid in the woods reeling in pain from a wound to his left arm. The scene looked and sounded real, but it wasn’t. It was part of trauma-scenario training on Friday at Penn State Mont...Tags: Advanced Life Support, First Aid, The Pennsylvania State University, Forestry and Timber, Nursing
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Hagerstown awarded $87,000 in grants for bike lanes, trees
cj.lovelace@herald-mail.comHagerstown has won a pair of grants worth nearly $90,000 that will be used to add bicycle lanes and trees to help meet the city’s Community Greening Grant Program goal. The city was selected as one of the winners of Maryland’s first...Tags: Natural Resources, Forestry and Timber, Cycling, Sports, Environmental Issues
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Letters to the Editor - March 31
This spring, let’s make Maryland greener To the editor: As citizens of an Appalachian state, we are lucky to be home to one of the largest varieties of tree species in the world. From New York to Alabama, there are more than 140 species of...Tags: Natural Resources, Forestry and Timber, Genesis (music group), Environmental Issues
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