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The lands include an area surrounding the Big Sandy River and an area adjoining the Fish and Wildlife Service’s Seedskadee National Wildlife Refuge. The lands were originally withdrawn for ...
BUTLER, W.Va. — A sunken towboat on the Big Sandy River near Huntington is leaking oil into the river, the Coast Guard said. The Gate City towboat began sinking at its mooring near Butler ...
WAYNE COUNTY, W.Va. — A Kentucky Man and two businesses plead guilty to discharge of refuse into the West Virginia shore of the Big Sandy River. David K. Smith, 55, of Paducah, Kentucky ...
The Big Sandy crayfish is known only from the Big Sandy ... Pike and Martin counties. The Guyandotte River crayfish was known from Logan, Mingo and Wyoming counties in West Virginia, but survives only ...
The Fish and Wildlife Service said Monday that the Big Sandy crayfish ... proposing to list the Guyandotte River crayfish, found at a single site in Wyoming County, W.Va. The proposed endangered ...
KENOVA, W.V. - The West Virginia National Guard's 35th Civil Support Team is providing support to local responding agencies working an oil spill from a sunken towboat along the Big Sandy River.
The endangered Guyandotte River crayfish has lost more than 90% of its range and is now found in only two streams in Wyoming County, West Virginia. The threatened Big Sandy crayfish’s range has been ...
Formed by the junction of its Tug and Levisa Forks at Louisa, Ky., the Big Sandy flows northward and empties into the Ohio River at Catlettsburg, Kentucky. Native Americans called it by several ...
BRIGHTWOOD – When the water rises and the sand gives way, residents along the upper Sandy River feel the vibrations of big boulders bouncing downstream. "You don't have to be a geologist," says ...
Vehicles and equipment fell into the Levisa Fork of the Big Sandy River after a massive embankment failure in Johnson County early Thursday. The slide at the Paintsville City Garage is estimated ...