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SHOOTING STRAIGHT: Natural resources, youth our state's greatest resources
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Sunday Gazette-Mail
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July 13, 2003
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West Virginia has always relied on its people, the land and our
natural resources to survive.
In the early days, we used timber, coal, oil, natural gas, our
streams and even our soil to create industries. Recently some of
these have changed and many people have lost jobs or careers as
innovation, better equipment and computers make these industries
easier to do with less manpower.
With droves of people coming to West Virginia to ride our
whitewater, fish our streams and lakes, hunt our fields and forests,
ski our mountains, mountain bike our trails, camp and hike in our
mountains, and photograph our fall colors, we are now the nation's
playground.
Our natural resources and state's beauty ...