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Board Highlights
By John McFerrin Once again the Board members (and a couple of their cats) climbed into their little Zoom boxes for the quarterly Board meeting. We are thinking that this may […]
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They’re back!
By John McFerrin Brood X of the seventeen year cicadas will be emerging in the eastern panhandle of West Virginia in late May. This is happening only in the eastern […]
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New Climate Goal for the US, Will Others Follow?
On Earth Day, President Biden announced a new United States goal for meeting our obligations under the Paris Climate Agreement. The United States will reduce its carbon dioxide emissions by […]
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Methane
Methane is a powerful greenhouse gas, trapping heat in the atmosphere 30 times greater than carbon dioxide over a 100-year time frame. But unlike carbon dioxide that can impact the […]
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Conservancy Votes to Support Climate Change Legislation
By Perry Bryant In late March, President Biden proposed an infrastructure initiative that included major provisions addressing the climate crisis. Central to the President’s proposal on climate reform is a […]
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Spring
Tree buds a bloomin Spring is a zoomin To turn the world green The leaves will be poppin There just ain’t no stoppin That photosynthetic scene Tree roots are a […]
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An Initial Examination of National Forest Management Response to Endangered Species Listing of the Candy Darter
By Rick Webb The candy darter is a brightly colored 2 to 3-inch fish of mountain streams in the Gauley and New River watersheds of Virginia and West Virginia. Streams […]
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Another sign of spring
It must be spring; the woodpeckers are drumming. Woodpeckers make two distinct types of sounds. One is the irregular pecking, with a couple of thumps, a moment of silence, and then […]
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New Reporting on Fracking and Public Health
By John McFerrin The Environmental Health News has announced the results of the effects of hydraulic fracturing (aka fracking) on public health. The results were dramatic. The goal of the reporting […]
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Dolly Sods Project Moves Closer to Action
The West Virginia Highlands Conservancy Dolly Sods project is getting close to the point where we can begin calling for volunteers for the first phase of activity, which will be […]
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