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Celebrating Old Growth Forests
The Old Growth Forest Network has identified two sites in West Virginia and added them to its list of old growth forests. The first is Giant Tree Trail/Hollow at North…
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United States Department of the Interior No Longer Wants to Know the Connection between Surface Mining and Public Health
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine has ended its study of the effects of mountaintop removal mining on public health. The committee working on the project has…
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Environmental Analysis as the Budget Burns
By Hugh Rogers Last month, representatives from the Highlands Conservancy, Sierra Club, Trout Unlimited, Friends of Blackwater, and Rivers Coalition met with Clyde Thompson, Monongahela National Forest Supervisor, and some…
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A Straw in the Wind? Or a Big Nothingburger?
During the most recent session of the West Virginia Legislature, one of the major issues was whether there would be logging in State Parks. Thanks to substantial public outcry,…
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Thoughts from our president
March proved to be another month a lot of activity. Mother Nature provided the greatest amount of snow of the winter for much of the highlands and has ended…
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The 2018 West Virginia Legislature: What Happened?
The Big Kahuna of the 2018 Legislative Session was, of course, the teachers’ strike. Teachers stuffed the Capitol, chanted, sang, waved signs, etc. until they finally got the pay…
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One Hundred Years of Bird Protection Now Threatened
By Jackie Burns Imagine you are a duck on migration. Flying high overhead, the view is great. But it is getting to be time to rest and feed, so you…
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The Lure of Flat Land
By John McFerrin Even if West Virginians are called Mountaineers, have we been lured by the idea of flat land? Were we so charmed by the promise of flat land…
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EPA Still “Listening” on the Clean Power Plan
On November 28 and 29, 2017, the United States Environmental Protection Agency held a public hearing in Charleston on the repeal of the Clean Power Plan. To read all…
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Compliance Surveillance Initiative: THE SEVEN STEPS OF INCIDENT INVESTIGATION
By Rick Webb, Chair, Pipeline CSI, Allegheny-Blue Ridge Alliance Construction of the proposed Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP) presents an extreme risk to water and other environmental resources. We cannot solely…
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