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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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Comfort
By Jack Slocomb Must be that turn of year, days more dimly drawn, nib of freeze in the tighter twines of air, for those fat black polished crickets to be […]
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New West Virginia Land Trust preserve a Mammoth undertaking
By Rick Steelhammer A 5,000-acre expanse of woodland and former surface mines along the Kanawha-Fayette County line east of Mammoth is being repurposed as a public recreation area and a […]
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Book News: Death in Mud Lick by Eric Eyre
Reviewed by Cindy Ellis A book on the opioid crisis might seem a stretch for readers interested in issues of the West Virginia Highlands Conservancy. In the book no mountains […]
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