Student Tries to Save Family's Land,: ; Mountaintop a Refuge for Rare Plants, Wildlife Near Greenbrier State Forest
Sunday Gazette-Mail › September 23, 2007
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WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS - Five square miles of land atop Kates Mountain next to Greenbrier State Forest - land that has been open to public use for decades - is the subject of an inheritance dispute that could end in the land being logged and subdivided.
The 3,445-acre parcel includes the summit of Kates Mountain, several small creeks, and a large shale barren - an expanse of ground covered with fractured shale that creates a desert-like microclimate supporting a variety of rare plant species.See the full content of this document
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Student Tries to Save Family's Land,: ; Mountaintop a Refuge for Rare Plants, Wildlife Near Greenbrier State Forest
The land was bought in a 1928 tax auction by the grandparents of David Brooks Holland, a West Virginia native who grew up in Logan and moved to California in the 1950s to attend Stanford University.
Holland, who became a stockbroker in Palo Alto, Calif., died in 1999, leaving his...See the full content of this document
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