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...goal of this youth program and 48 others is for kids to come away with a solid understanding of the activities, an appreciation for what they've done for themselves, and a respect for the environment with which they've interacted," says Greg Auch, education field coordinator for the Appalachian Mountain Club, one of the nation's oldest nonprofit conservation and recreation organizations...
While one such skirmish can sink a campaign, both supporters and rivals will find much more to debate in the character and record of Lamar Alexander, from his idyllic Appalachian boyhood through a public career driven by a steel-willed, bland-faced ambition...
Blackberry Farm, a romantic $200-a-night inn and restaurant in the Appalachian foothills, was one-third owned by Alexander when he became president of the university. Having informed school officials that he had disposed of his interest in the inn, he began recommending it for university functions--14 of them that eventually cost $64,626. What he didn't disclose was that he had transferred his interest in the inn to his wife. Had they known of Honey Alexander's interest in the inn, university officials "would have continued their objections," according to a 1992 state report...
...squabble began in late February, when the Pentagon told the independent base-closing commission it wants to shutter Fort McClellan's 46,000 acres, nestled in the Appalachian foothills just outside the city of Anniston. Most of its operations, including the military's police and chemical schools, would be sent 350 miles north to Fort Leonard Wood, 63,000 acres of Ozarks wrapped by a national forest and near a few tiny towns...
...disease, which has migrated northward from the Appalachian Mountains, has been confirmed in raccoon populations in nearly 90 percent on Massachusetts towns in the past year, according to state disease control records...