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  • A toxin called rotenone would first exterminate non-native fish from the nine-mile creek section—an idea that rankles some local anglers—under a proposal by state and federal biologists.

    Flies, and Their Lawyers, Keep Rare Trout From Going Home Justin Scheck 2011

  • Federal and state game officials want to restore the Paiute cutthroat trout to the range scientists believe it occupied for many millennia—a nine-mile stretch of the Silver King Creek in the Sierra Nevada wilderness.

    Flies, and Their Lawyers, Keep Rare Trout From Going Home Justin Scheck 2011

  • When the first section of the Great Allegheny Passage – a nine-mile stretch at Ohiopyle, Pa. – opened 20 years ago, “it showed that if you build these trails, they will be used by locals but also attract tourists,” says Linda McKenna Boxx, president of the Allegheny Trail Alliance, an umbrella for seven trail groups.

    2009 April « Beachwood Historical Alliance 2009

  • Work at Presque Isle was far enough along that gangs could be shifted southward down the new nine-mile portage road to what became Fort Le Boeuf present-day Waterford, Pennsylvania.

    George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011

  • When the first section of the Great Allegheny Passage – a nine-mile stretch at Ohiopyle, Pa. – opened 20 years ago, “it showed that if you build these trails, they will be used by locals but also attract tourists,” says Linda McKenna Boxx, president of the Allegheny Trail Alliance, an umbrella for seven trail groups.

    Rail Trails Provide Local Economic Engine « Beachwood Historical Alliance 2009

  • Work at Presque Isle was far enough along that gangs could be shifted southward down the new nine-mile portage road to what became Fort Le Boeuf present-day Waterford, Pennsylvania.

    George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011

  • Does their father take them boating on a nine-mile lake?

    Some Pig, Some Book Anthony Esolen 2011

  • Work at Presque Isle was far enough along that gangs could be shifted southward down the new nine-mile portage road to what became Fort Le Boeuf present-day Waterford, Pennsylvania.

    George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011

  • My journal reflects that I found the day's nine-mile hike to be "terrific."

    The Starvation Vacation Christina Binkley 2011

  • When the first section of the Great Allegheny Passage – a nine-mile stretch at Ohiopyle, Pa. – opened 20 years ago, “it showed that if you build these trails, they will be used by locals but also attract tourists,” says Linda McKenna Boxx, president of the Allegheny Trail Alliance, an umbrella for seven trail groups.

    2009 April 22 « Beachwood Historical Alliance 2009

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