This character is described as one of the Leshy.

Mr. Leshy said the legislation "doesn't have much to do with mining at all."

Leshy, polevik, and other nature spirits continued to haunt the wilds of the world.

Leshy protects the animals and birds in the forest and tells them when to migrate.

John Leshy for Solicitor at the Interior Department.

There's an illustrated book of the poem 'The Leshy' by John Soltys.

James Branch Cabell makes references to the Leshy.

In an ever-more urban West, the day of reckoning is fast approaching, people like Mr. Leshy say.

The Leshy or Lesovik is a male woodland spirit in Slavic mythology who protects wild animals and forests.

Other creatures in the books derived from Slavic folklore include Bannik, Leshy and a Vodyanoy.

"Yes, it is perturbing to be assured I am only a garment which is sometimes worn by that Horvendile who is of the Leshy."

The Leshy is known by a variety of names and spellings including Lesiy, Leshii, Leszi, Lesovik, etc.

The department's rejection came in a letter from John D. Leshy, the Solicitor of the Interior Department, to Gov. Fife Symington.

John Leshy Professor UC-Hastings College of the Law San Francisco, California (Truth in Testimony Form)

The player is given the option of customizing a character from one of seven races: Human, Elf, Gnome, Dwarf, Orc, Ogre, and Leshy.

"They are called mining claims, but you can locate them where there are no minerals," said John D. Leshy, who was the Interior Department's senior lawyer during the Clinton administration.

The Ents in The Lord of the Rings by J.J.R. Tolkien bear a strong resemblance to some conceptualizations of Leshy.

John Leshy, the department's solicitor general under Mr. Clinton, disputed that, saying the Clinton administration had tried harder to balance water deliveries between environmental needs and agriculture, as required by the 1992 law.

Mr. Leshy, the former Interior Department lawyer, and other experts say that perhaps 300 million acres of public land - almost all of it in the West - remains open to the filing of mining claims.

Think of Leshy, domovoi, poleviki, such-like harmless sprites-well, sometimes a touch mischievous, but sometimes good friends to poor hu- mans-" "On the other hand," Petar said, "think of viljai."

E took the Brigade to the time of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, when Pyotr's past self and Elliana of the Leshy, whose people had been destroyed by mankind, would bring M'nagalah to Earth.

In the MMORPG Ragnarok Online Leshy, transliterated as Leshij or Les are wandering creatures of similar form and function and are found in the Moskovia forest area of Dremuci.

The videogame Quest For Glory IV: Shadows of Darkness, set in the Slavic countryside of a fictional east-European valley, features several Slavic fairies including the Rusalka, Domovoi and Leshy.

"If you look at the gold industry today, most of it is Nevada, and Nevada is mostly not prized by environmentalists," said John D. Leshy, who was the top lawyer for the Department of the Interior in the Clinton administration.

Mr. Leshy said in his letter to Mr. Symington that the department could not accept the Governor's plan to split the entrance fees evenly with the state, because the Government was barred from transferring money to the state to operate the park.