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WV E-Council Determining Legislative Priorities for 2020
By Frank Young The WV Environmental Council (E-Council) is the lobbying group for the greater community of both large and small West Virginia environmental organizations. Most of WV E-Council’s budget comes […]
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Thoughts from our president
West Virginia Highlands Conservancy Support for the Allegheny-Blue Ridge Alliance – August 2018 to July 2019 In the Summer of 2018, the West Virginia Highlands Conservancy (WVHC) awarded a substantial grant […]
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A Better Direction for Corridor H
By Hugh Rogers Word came in early August that the West Virginia Division of Highways (DOH) was “re-starting” the disputed Parsons-to-Davis section of Corridor H. Questions would be answered at […]
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Federal Court Says Atlantic Coast Pipeline Not Protecting Endangered Species
By John McFerrin The United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit has once again stopped the Atlantic Coast Pipeline because of the failure to comply with the […]
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Board Highlights
By John McFerrin The Board was hampered by the absence of some of our leaders. In spite of this, we managed to address some ways we could make the organization […]
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Abandoned Gas Wells: Are They a Problem?
By John McFerrin The June, 2019, issue of The Highlands Voicecontained a very useful article on efforts to plug old gas wells. The crux of the story was that we […]
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Restoring Trout, Protecting the Future
By Chris Wood “What is the name of that tree?” Brandon Keplinger, the district fisheries biologist for West Virginia Division of Natural Resources, asked the 20 or so fifth graders […]
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Inflamed
Summer’s already hatched the scourges we scratch — p.i., mosquitoes, ticks — but on this hotter planet we can’t take for granite it won’t bring a brand new itch […]
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Forest Service Proposes Less Environmental Review
The UnitedStates Forest Service has proposed a change to the regulations on howit administers the National Environmental Policy Act(NEPA). It proposes changing the regulations in such a way that it […]
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Tracking “Timberdoodles”
By Casey Rucker and Cindy Ellis Our vote was For the Birds! On Saturday, July 20, the WVHC Board of Directors voted to sponsor several tracking transmitters for migration research […]
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