• ClimateWise

    Posted on March 4, 2020

    Sequestering carbon dioxide is essential if the world is going to avoid the worst impacts of climate change. Many scientists estimate that in order to stay at a “safe” level […]

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  • Weeks Act Helped Create Monongahela National Forest

    Posted on March 4, 2020

    By Robert Beanblossom  One of the most important pieces of environmental legislation ever enacted by Congress was the passage of the Weeks Act on March 1, 1911. Named for its […]

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  • Crackers and Missing Mountains. Tales within tales.

    Posted on March 4, 2020

    By Marion Harless, West Virginian More taxpayer dollars are going to subsidize construction of huge air-polluting gas cracker plants. Gas and oil are cracked to make stock for plastic. Plastics […]

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  • A Little Legislative News

    Posted on March 4, 2020

    As The Highlands Voice goes to press the West Virginia Legislature is going into its final week.  Committees are committeeing, deals are being cut, politics is being played, etc. etc.  Nobody knows how things […]

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  • Thoughts from our president

    Posted on March 4, 2020

    By John McFerrin             On February 24, 2020, the United States Supreme Court heard arguments on a case concerning the Atlantic Coast Pipeline.  Now we are left to wait, with nothing to […]

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  • United States Supreme Court Hears Atlantic Coast Pipeline Case

    Posted on March 4, 2020

    By John McFerrin             On February 24, 2020, the United States Supreme Court heard arguments on a case concerning the Atlantic Coast Pipeline.  Now we are left to wait, with nothing to […]

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  • All Hail the Real Prognosticators

    Posted on February 3, 2020

    In most Februaries, The Highlands Voice takes note of Groundhog Day, honoring the putative prognosticator of spring.  According to an article in Scientific American, however, the cute little rodent is lousy at it.  It can predict […]

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  • Critical Habitat Established for Endangered Crayfish

    Posted on February 3, 2020

    The United States Fish and Wildlife Service has published a proposed rule to designate critical habitat for the Big Sandy crayfish (Cambarus callainus) and the Guyandotte River crayfish (Cambarus veteranus).   […]

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  • The Forgotten Natural Resource

    Posted on February 3, 2020

    By Beth Little             The Monongahela National Forest has a natural resource that is ignored.  It is darkness – an absence of artificial light at night.  Around the planet there are fewer and […]

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  • The Atlantic Coast Pipeline: an update and what we are doing

    Posted on February 3, 2020

    The West Virginia Highlands Conservancy (WVHC) provided a grant in the summer of 2018 to support the work of the Allegheny-Blue Ridge Alliance (ABRA) and West Virginia Rivers Coalition (WVRC) […]

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