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Land and Water Conservation Fund in Peril
The Land and Water Conservation Fund is scheduled to expire on September 30, 2018. There are efforts afoot to keep that from happening and to keep it authorized permanently. The Land…
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New Hiking Guide Brings Color Photos, Maps, and 200 Trails
By Hugh Rogers It’s been a long hike to a new edition of the Monongahela National Forest Hiking Guide. Some of our companions didn’t make it all the way. We…
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Thoughts from our President
By Larry Thomas Old-Growth Forest in West Virginia To the untrained eye it is a group of really big trees, but to Doug Wood, a retired Department of Environmental Protection water-quality…
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We Have Wilderness; Now We Need to Work to Keep It Wilderness
By George E. Beetham Jr. On October 13, 1746, Thomas Lewis, a surveyor from the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia was a member of a survey team headed by Peter Jefferson,…
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Board Meeting Coming Up
The summer board meeting of the West Virginia Highlands Conservancy will held on Saturday, July 21 at a location near Elkins. While only Board members are allowed to vote and…
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Through Our Native State
By Lenore Coberly We drive down the Little Kanawha late in life, enfolded by green hills in spring leaf, at speed limits forty on curves, a constant in these parts. At Dolly Sods…
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Mountain Valley Pipeline Hits Another Snag
By John McFerrin The United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit has temporarily suspended all stream and wetland crossings in West Virginia by the proposed Mountain Valley Pipeline. …
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Fishing Joy
By Cindy Ellis We know about the joys of mountain streams. We know icy, rushing waters and rocky waterfalls and verdant banks with spruce or hemlock. In our recent history,…
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New Visitor Center for Canaan Valley National Wildlife Refuge
The United States Department of the Interior has announced $7 million in construction funding for a new Administrative/Visitor Center for Canaan Valley National Wildlife Refuge. The current facility was…
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How Do Tiny Air Particles from Fracking Affect Public Health?
Building and operating a hydraulic fracturing well site can emit airborne particles in multiple ways. But scientists still don’t fully understand how these particles impact human health. Travis Knuckles,…
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