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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 for […]
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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 been […]
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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, that […]
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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 the […]
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The 2018 West Virginia Legislature: What Happened?
The Big Kahuna of the 2018 Legislative Session was, of course, the teachers’ strike. Teachers stuffed the Capitol, chanted, sang, waved signs, etc. until they finally got the pay raise […]
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One Hundred Years of Bird Protection Now Threatened
By Jackie Burns Imagine you are a duck on migration. Flying high overhead, the view is great. But it is getting to be time to rest and feed, so you […]
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The Lure of Flat Land
By John McFerrin Even if West Virginians are called Mountaineers, have we been lured by the idea of flat land? Were we so charmed by the promise of flat land […]
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