Compliance Surveillance Finds Pipeline Problems

The March, 2018, issue of The Highlands Voice described the Pipeline Compliance Surveillance Initiative (CSI), developed by the Allegheny-Blue Ridge Alliance and member organizations.  The idea is to monitor…

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Federal Budget Favorable to Public Lands

By Matt Kearns, West Virginians for Public Lands The 2018 federal budget was more than a “day late,” but it was not a “dollar short” when it came to public…

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Study Documents Consequences for Babies Born to Mothers Living Close to Fracking

The United States is in the midst of a fracking boom. Short for “hydraulic fracturing,” the technique for exploiting deep deposits of natural gas and oil was virtually unknown…

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Don Garvin, A Friend of Rivers, A Friend of Mine

By Angie Rosser, West Virginia Rivers Executive Director West Virginia Rivers Coalition lost a leader March 29; and I lost a mentor and special friend. I met Don Garvin when…

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Loss of a Friend and a Champion

The West Virginia Highlands Conservancy is grieved to note the death of our friend and board member, Don Garvin. He represented WV Trout Unlimited within our group and worked…

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Celebrating Old Growth Forests

The Old Growth Forest Network has identified two sites in West Virginia and added them to its list of old growth forests. The first is Giant Tree Trail/Hollow at North…

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United States Department of the Interior No Longer Wants to Know the Connection between Surface Mining and Public Health

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine has ended its study of the effects of mountaintop removal mining on public health.  The committee working on the project has…

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Environmental Analysis as the Budget Burns

By Hugh Rogers Last month, representatives from the Highlands Conservancy, Sierra Club, Trout Unlimited, Friends of Blackwater, and Rivers Coalition met with Clyde Thompson, Monongahela National Forest Supervisor, and some…

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A Straw in the Wind? Or a Big Nothingburger?

During the most recent session of the West Virginia Legislature, one of the major issues was whether there would be logging in State Parks.  Thanks to substantial public outcry,…

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Thoughts from our president

March proved to be another month a lot of activity. Mother Nature provided the greatest amount of snow of the winter for much of the highlands and has ended…

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