Join the Count: Good For You, Good For Birds

New York, NY, Ithaca, NY, and Port Rowan, ON—The 26th annual Great Backyard Bird Count (GBBC) takes place Friday, February 17, through Monday, February 20. Bird and nature lovers everywhere…

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Marion Harless’s Earth Days

by Hugh Rogers Marion Harless, an herbarist, teacher, weaver, West Virginia Folklife Master and outspoken environmentalist, who inspired countless people to learn and practice…

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Spring Native Tree Planting Opportunity to Landowners in the Cheat Watershed

2023 marks the third year of Friends of the Cheat’s (FOC) Riparian Reforestation project in Tucker and Preston Counties, through which free native tree plantings are provided…

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Board Highlights

By John McFerrin The dicey weather in January and the appeal of meeting without having to leave our houses drew us to a Zoom…

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 2023 West Virginia Legislature Update 
By Luanne McGovern

The 2023 West Virginia legislative session kicked off in Charleston on Jan. 11. So far over 1,500 bills have been introduced. The WV Highlands Conservancy, in conjunction…

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EPA Wants to Plug the Leaks at Gas Wells

By John McFerrin My mother hated waste. In a household headed by Depression era babies, we did it all: reusing wrapping paper, turning off…

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Thoughts from our President

By Larry Thomas Winter certainly has arrived in the highlands with freezing temperatures, strong winds (causing wind chills to drop below zero) and several…

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Making Permit Reviews More Efficient?

By John McFerrin For at least the second time, Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV)’s dream that we should fast track proposed infrastructure projects has been…

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