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Crackers and Missing Mountains. Tales within tales.
By Marion Harless, West Virginian More taxpayer dollars are going to subsidize construction of huge air-polluting gas cracker plants. Gas and oil are cracked…
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A Little Legislative News
As The Highlands Voice goes to press the West Virginia Legislature is going into its final week. Committees are committeeing, deals are being cut, politics is being played, etc. etc. Nobody…
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Thoughts from our president
By John McFerrin On February 24, 2020, the United States Supreme Court heard arguments on a case concerning the Atlantic Coast Pipeline. Now we are…
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United States Supreme Court Hears Atlantic Coast Pipeline Case
By John McFerrin On February 24, 2020, the United States Supreme Court heard arguments on a case concerning the Atlantic Coast Pipeline. Now we are…
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All Hail the Real Prognosticators
In most Februaries, The Highlands Voice takes note of Groundhog Day, honoring the putative prognosticator of spring. According to an article in Scientific American, however, the cute little rodent is lousy at…
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Critical Habitat Established for Endangered Crayfish
The United States Fish and Wildlife Service has published a proposed rule to designate critical habitat for the Big Sandy crayfish (Cambarus callainus) and the Guyandotte River…
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The Forgotten Natural Resource
By Beth Little The Monongahela National Forest has a natural resource that is ignored. It is darkness – an absence of artificial light at night. Around…
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The Atlantic Coast Pipeline: an update and what we are doing
The West Virginia Highlands Conservancy (WVHC) provided a grant in the summer of 2018 to support the work of the Allegheny-Blue Ridge Alliance (ABRA) and West Virginia…
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Canaan Fir, 50 years later
By Dave Saville In 1970 a young Forestry Professor, Dr. Jim Brown, left WVU to take a job at Ohio State University. He was…
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Board Highlights
The West Virginia Highlands Conservancy met in Charleston, with some of the members from more mountainous parts of the state snowed in and unable to attend. The Board…
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