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Board Highlights
By John McFerrin For the latest of what seemed like too many times in a row we gathered in our little Zoom boxes to take care of the West Virginia […]
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West Virginia Highlands Conservancy Seeks Program Director
WVHC, now in its 54th year, currently serves approximately 1,500 members and supporters with a strong history of promoting, encouraging, and working for the conservation and an appreciation of the natural resources […]
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Overappreciated Prognosticators; Underappreciated Interior Designers
By John McFerrin Now we have a few more data points in the ongoing effort to determine if groundhogs really can predict the weather. Punxsutawney Phil—the national groundhog by virtue of his […]
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National Academy of Sciences Makes Recommendations for Addressing Climate Change
By Perry Bryant In a recently released report the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (Academy) recommends that the United States adopt a modest carbon tax, use clean energy […]
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Dark Sky Week Coming Up
By John McFerrin International Dark Sky Week is coming up April 5-12. West Virginia has several reasons, and places, to celebrate. Dark Sky Week is a project of the International Dark […]
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Forest Service Gauley Project Scrutinized
By Kent Karriker The Monongahela National Forest has proposed to conduct over 2,600 acres of timber harvest and several hundred acres of prescribed fire on the Gauley District near the […]
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Thoughts from our president
February continued the onslaught of freezing temperatures and strong winds (causing wind chills to drop below zero), along with snowstorm after snowstorm blanketing most of the highlands in a wintry […]
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Corridor H’s Construction Company Facing Fines
By John McFerrin From the project’s beginning the West Virginia Highlands Conservancy has opposed Corridor H. Even when it was only an idea–with nothing on the ground—we thought it was a […]
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Untapped Resource – a Hiker/Outdoor User Voluntary Fee
By Linda Cooper Hikers, skiers, campers, RVers, photographers, bird watchers, canoeist and kayakers, plant collectors/ florists, rock climbers, horseback riders, cavers, festival goers, they are all here en masse and […]
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Law School (in a nutshell)
Law schools routinely enthrall (or bore) students with a course called Administrative Law. In the part where they talk about how regulations get made, the lesson is that nothing happens quickly. Agencies […]
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