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Texas Panhandle
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Hunt the Texas Panhandle where whitetail deer hunting is legendary. Youth deer hunting is an important part of the Texas deer season. YOUTH hunts are a specialty! Hunting whitetail deer and mule deer in the Texas Panhandle is very exciting. Big game is abundant and deer habitat is excellent. AAO means hunting with experienced guides and seasoned dogs for bobwhite quail.
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"The acquisition of the Texas Panhandle assets establishes a new core area for the Company and significantly adds to our development inventory," said Michael C. Linn, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Linn Energy. "The acquisitions in the Appalachian Basin are consistent with our strategy of acquiring bolt-on assets in our core areas of operation."
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Floyd V. Studer was an explorer, promoter, civic leader, watchdog, and kingpin, a determined man whose impact on the study of Plains Village sites in the Texas Panhandle is hard to exaggerate. This publicity photo was probably taken around 1940. Panhandle-Plains Historical Society (PPHS) archives.
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Francisco Coronado was the first European to see the vast open spaces of what would one day be the Texas Panhandle – nearly 80 years before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock. The roving tribes of
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(Ground water Inventory Data) The Ogallala Aquifer, which stretches from the Texas Panhandle to South Dakota, is believed to have contained 4 trillion tons of pristine water. It is now mined by over 200,000 wells that pull out 6838 billion gallons/ year, 14 times faster than the recharge rate. Since 1991 the Ogallala Aquifer's water table has dropped three feet/ year. By some estimates, more than 50% of the Ogallala Aquifer's water is gone (02U3).
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In June 2007, Pickens announced that he intends to build the world's largest wind farm by installing large wind turbines in parts of four Panhandle counties. The project would produce up to four thousand megawatts of electricity. Pickens' Mesa Power LP will undertake the construction. If completed, the farm would generate more than five times the 735 megawatts produced at the present largest such farm near Abilene, according to Susan Williams Sloan, spokesman for the American Wind Energy Association.[16]
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