Map of the Berea and Murrysville sands of northeastern Ohio, western Pennsylvania, and northern-most West Virginia

10.3133/om49 ◽  
1946 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
West Virginia ◽  
Western Pennsylvania

Anne Newport Royall

2020 ◽  
pp. 36-42
Keyword(s):  
West Virginia ◽  
Revolutionary War ◽  
Her Family ◽  
Domestic Servants ◽  
Female Journalists ◽  
Western Pennsylvania

One of the most prominent and feared female journalists of her time, Anne Newport Royall was born near Baltimore, Maryland. She moved with her family to a log cabin on the western Pennsylvania frontier and then, with her widowed mother, settled in (West) Virginia. There she met and married William Royall, in whose household she and her mother worked as domestic servants. William Royall, a Revolutionary War veteran and a wealthy, well-educated gentleman farmer, had amassed one of the largest libraries in Virginia. Anne educated herself from this collection....

scholarly journals First Record of the Blue Crawfish, Cambarus monongalensis Ortmann, 1905 (Decapoda: Cambaridae), from Ohio, USA

2020 ◽  
Vol 120 (2) ◽  
pp. 57
Author(s):  
Mael G. Glon ◽  
Laura S. Hughes ◽  
Heather E. Glon ◽  
Kelly M. Capuzzi ◽  
Zachary J. Loughman ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
West Virginia ◽  
First Record ◽  
The State ◽  
Ohio River ◽  
East Side ◽  
Monroe County ◽  
Western Pennsylvania

This paper documents the first record of the blue crawfish, Cambarus monongalensis Ortmann, 1905, in the state of Ohio, United States. The blue crawfish is a small- to medium-sized primary burrowing crayfish common in western Pennsylvania and West Virginia. Because of the prevalence of this species on the east side of the Ohio River, numerous researchers have sought the blue crawfish in Ohio—to no avail. On 16 May 2020, turkey hunters in Monroe County, Ohio, located a blue-colored crayfish and sent photos to one of the authors of this study. On 19 May 2020, the authors sampled in the vicinity of where the photo was taken and located 4 sites that yielded a total of 5 blue crawfish specimens, confirming the existence of this species in Ohio. Further research is needed on the blue crawfish to determine its range and abundance in Ohio, and to explore factors relating to its biogeography.

scholarly journals Western Pennsylvania-West Virginia Chapter of ACRL Commemorates Its History

2013 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 187-188
Author(s):  
Hilary Fredette ◽  
John Barnett ◽  
Linda Blake
Keyword(s):  
West Virginia ◽  
60Th Anniversary ◽  
25Th Anniversary ◽  
Research Libraries ◽  
Western Pennsylvania

At its spring 2013 conference, the Western Pennsylvania-West Virginia Chapter of the Association of College and Research Libraries (WPWVC ACRL) celebrated its 60th anniversary. The organization will also commemorate its 25th anniversary this year.

scholarly journals The First Report of Beech Bark Disease in Ohio Comes Nineteen Years After the First Report of the Initiating Scale

Plant Disease ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 89 (2) ◽  
pp. 203-203 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. MacKenzie ◽  
A. J. Iskra
Keyword(s):  
North Carolina ◽  
North America ◽  
West Virginia ◽  
Scale Insect ◽  
Fagus Grandifolia ◽  
Beech Bark Disease ◽  
American Beech ◽  
First Report ◽  
Disease Complex ◽  
Western Pennsylvania

Beech bark disease (BBD) is a two-part disease complex. It first requires the feeding of an initiating insect scale and is only fully developed when scale-altered bark becomes infected by one of two Neonectria species. In Ohio, there was a 19-year lag between discovery of the initiating scale insect and the development of BBD. In September 1984, the BBD-initiating scale (Cryptococcus fagisuga Lind) was discovered in the Holden Arboretum, Geauga County, OH (2). Nineteen years later (December 2003), A. Iskra discovered the exotic BBD-causing fungus, Neonectria coccinea (Pers.:Fr.) Rossman & Samuels var faginata Lohman, Watson & Ayers, on American beech (Fagus grandifolia Ehrh.) in the Holden Arboretum. In 1934, Erlich (1) reported that there was normally a delay of at least 1 year between the appearance of the scale and the first appearance of the Neonectria spp. fungus. In the years immediately after the first report of the scale in Ohio (2), pathologists and arboretum staff made frequent visits to the site in an attempt to find Neonectria spp. fruiting. After a decade of searching, these visits became more infrequent. However, it was on one of these visits that A. Iskra found the fungus. He found it on only four trees, none of which had the extensive bark cankering common in chronic Neonectria spp. infections. In North America, the two species of Neonectria that have been involved in BBD mortality are the native N. galligena (Bres.) Rossman & Samuels, or the exotic N. coccinea var faginata. In the absence of beech scale infestations, reports of the native N. galligena infecting American beech are few. Yet, in West Virginia, western Pennsylvania, Michigan, and possibly North Carolina, the fungus first associated with the killing front has been the native N. galligena and not the exotic variety, N. coccinea var faginata. To our knowledge, this is the first report of BBD in Ohio and it is unique because the associated fungus is the exotic variety. References: (1) J. Erlich. Can. J. Res. 10:593, 1934. (2) M. E. Mielke et al. Plant Dis. 69:905, 1985.

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