• Banding Birds for Over Six Decades

    By LeJay Graffious Each year, in late summer through early fall, volunteers gather near Red Creek campground on the Dolly Sods Wilderness Area, to help with banding efforts of migrating […]

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  • Wanted: Membership and Fulfillment Secretary

    After eleven+ years in the position, Beth Little is retiring and resigning her position at the West Virginia Highlands Conservancy. Because of that THE WEST VIRGINIA HIGHLANDS CONSERVANCY, the state’s […]

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  • Remembering Ben Stout

    By Cindy Rank Ben Stout, father, teacher, friend, scientist, ecologist, activist and lover of life, died August 3, 2018.  Since then there has been an outpouring of fond remembrances from […]

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  • Annual Meeting

      West Virginia Highlands Conservancy Fall Review 2018 And Annual Meeting Experience Learning Inc. Spruce Knob Mountain Center 18 Woodlands Way Circleville, WV 26804 USA https://experience-learning.org/ Friday October 5 through […]

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  • Thoughts from our president

    The West Virginia Highlands Conservancy (WVHC) has received a contribution from the Explorers Club of Pittsburgh (ECP) in the memory of former ECP club members George Bogel and Robert Broughton. […]

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  • Pipelines Keep Getting Stopped (at least temporarily)

    Atlantic Coast Pipeline        The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has ordered the Atlantic Coast Pipeline to stop construction because it does not have the proper permits and approvals. In […]

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  • Groups Say Rover Pipeline Fine Is Too Small

    By John McFerrin The West Virginia Highlands Conservancy has joined with the West Virginia Rivers Coalition (which led the effort) and seventeen other organizations in criticizing the actions taken by […]

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  • Groups Ask That Atlantic Coast Pipeline be Halted

    Several citizen and environmental groups, including the West Virginia Highlands Conservancy, have asked that construction of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline be halted because it does not have the proper permit […]

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  • INDUSTRY STANDARD NONCOMPLIANCE

    By Rick Webb, Highlands Conservancy Board Member and Chair of the Allegheny-Blue Ridge Alliance CSI Program The Pipeline Air Force, a component of the Pipeline Compliance Surveillance Initiative (CSI), has […]

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  • Court Vacates Federal Decisions on MVP Construction

    By Kate Mishkin The 4th Circuit Court of Appeals vacated the Bureau of Land Management’s decision to grant a right of way, and the U.S. Forest Service’s decision to allow […]

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