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Closing Dates Announced for Monongahela National Forest Recreation Sites
While most of Monongahela National Forest is open year-round, closing only when access roads are snow-covered, some developed campgrounds, picnic areas and both visitor centers are routinely closed from late […]
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West Virginia Highlands Conservancy Position on Climate Change
Naturally occurring greenhouse gases have been warming the Earth for millions of years. Without these naturally occurring greenhouse gases, such as water vapor and carbon dioxide (CO2), the Earth’s climate, […]
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West Virginia Highlands Conservancy Adopts Single Use Plastics Policy
The single-use plastics policy is an attempt to move upstream in the effort that the Conservancy has mounted in recent years to “monitor pipeline construction, well drilling and fracking to […]
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West Virginia Highlands Conservancy Adopts Climate Change Policy
During its October meeting the West Virginia Highlands Conservancy Board adopted a policy on climate change. The genesis for the climate change policy came from a poll of Conservancy members […]
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Thoughts from our president
WOW, October was certainly the time for visiting the highlands that we all love. Traveling through the mountains, as many others that I passed along the way were doing, one […]
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Objections Continue to the Mountain Valley Pipeline
By Cindy Rank Last month’s Highlands Voice (October 2020) explained the legal challenge by WV Highlands Conservancy and seven co-plaintiffs to the recently reissued Army Corps of Engineers (ACOE) stream crossing permit […]
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Strange Doings by Department of Environmental Protection in Eastern Panhandle
By Christine Wimer, President Jefferson County Foundation It is time for the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) to stop catering to corporations and start protecting the environment. Jefferson County Foundation, based […]
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Hearing on Water Quality Rules Turns into Nothing
A September 23 hearing of the Legislative Rulemaking Review Committee on proposed water quality standards proved anticlimactic as the rules were taken off the agenda. The rule at issue has […]
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Learn the Straight Scoop on Climate Change
Late last month, the West Virginia Climate Alliance, an emerging coalition of environmental, civil rights, faith-based and civic organizations, released A Citizen’s Guide to Climate Change. The Guide outlines the science […]
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Headwater
By Jack Slocomb Seneca Creek rises up out of ancient, wrinkled folds of earth, out of timelessness, an immense continuity. When I breathe in the space and the sweep from […]
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