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West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection Gives Away ANOTHER Chance to Protect State’s Waters
West Virginia has waived its opportunity to review the Atlantic Coast Pipeline to determine whether it will cause a violation of West Virginia’s water quality standards. Under Section 401 of…
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While We Sleep
By Edwina Pendarvis Salamanders, startled into being, flicker far away. Through the banked fires of autumn moss and leaf-litter, they arc across the synapses of yellow birch and red spruce on mountain peaks lifted from…
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Antero Clearwater
By Cindy Rank Salt, salt, salt ??? Radioactivity??? While the debate rages in trade magazines as to just what might be the accurate long-term predictions for gas prices, availability of shale…
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Many Christmas Eves
By Lenora Coberly After school on December afternoons the children walked up Baptist Church Hill to practice for the Christmas Eve Program. Mrs. Booth played the piano as we marched and sang of the long ago…
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The “Shoenfeld Estimator”: Where It Came From and How It Grew
By Frank Young Back when the first wind farm was proposed for West Virginia ridges (year 2000), I was WVHC president. After about a year of recognizing myself as wind…
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Remembering Peter
By Hugh Rogers At the celebration of Peter’s life, a full house, very few of whom would have been Jewish, learned multiple meanings of the Hebrew word “shalom.” It is…
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Missing a Mentor
By George E. Beetham Jr. Peter Schoenfeld was my first contact with the West Virginia Highlands Conservancy. It began with plans for a string of wind turbines stretching along the…
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A Loss of a Friend
Peter S. Shoenfeld, devoted husband and father, mathematician, and lover of the outdoors, and West Virginia Highlands Conservancy member and Board member, died on Monday, November 13, 2017. Peter was…
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The People Speak about the Clean Power Plan
By John McFerrin From all over West Virginia, they came. From around the country, they came. With a stubborn determination to say something, even when you know nobody is listening,…
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National Forest Service Approves Mountain Valley Pipeline Across Jefferson National Forest
The National Forest Service has decided to amend its Forest Management Plan for the Jefferson National Forest. This would make it possible for the Mountain Valley Pipeline to cross…
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