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Stephen McDaniel St Augustine | The $17 Million Question Nobody Wanted to Ask
West Virginia ran a 45-park system for years without charging a soul to drive in. Only nine states in the country operated that way. The bill came due anyway, in the form of lodges pushing 50 years old and a maintenance list nobody had budgeted for. Stephen McDaniel of St. Augustine, Florida inherited that list…
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Stephen McDaniel St Augustine | What One Day of the Week Was Worth to West Virginia
For most of its history West Virginia told hunters they could not hunt on Sunday. Then it told them they could, but only on private land, and only in counties that voted for it. The patchwork made a certain kind of sense to nobody. Stephen McDaniel of St. Augustine, Florida spent his first year as…
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Stephen McDaniel St Augustine | The Hunting Land You Cannot Actually Reach
There is a ridge in Logan County, West Virginia, about 11 miles into the Tomblin Wildlife Management Area. The hunting up there is good. Getting up there is the problem. Stephen McDaniel of St. Augustine, Florida raised that problem publicly in August 2018, while serving as Director of the West Virginia Division of Natural Resources.…
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Stephen McDaniel St Augustine | Fifty Elk in a Quarantine Pen in Logan County
In March 2018, fifty elk from Arizona went into a five-acre pen in southern West Virginia and waited. Federal disease testing takes time. The animals stayed put until May. Stephen McDaniel of St. Augustine, Florida was Director of the West Virginia Division of Natural Resources for that delivery, and for the 35 elk that had…