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Native Candy Darter Added to federal Endangered Species List
By Rick Steelhammer The candy darter, a colorful 3-inch fish known to exist in only five relatively healthy populations scattered through West Virginia’s Gauley, Greenbrier and lower New rivers, has…
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Pump Storage Project Proposed on Backbone Mountain
By Kent Karriker Recently a company called FreedomWorks, LLC applied to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) for a preliminary permit to study the feasibility of constructing a pump storage…
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Forest Service Projects We Are Watching
November proved to be another month of increased of activity. Mother Nature also provided the first snow of the winter for much of the highlands. There was also a…
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Corps of Engineers Suspends Permit for Atlantic Coast Pipeline
The United States Army has suspended the permit which the Atlantic Coast Pipeline needs to cross any of the 1556 streams and wetlands in West Virginia, Virginia, and North…
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Seeing the Sinks of Gandy
One of the field trips offered at the Fall Review was to the Sinks of Gandy. It was way fun. Before it gets to the Sinks of Gandy, Gandy Creek…
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Board Highlights
By John McFerrin The October, 2018, gathering of the West Virginia Highlands Conservancy featured two meetings. The first was the Annual Meeting, held once a year to elect officers and…
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Highlands Conservancy Finds Flaws in Proposed Spruce Mountain Grouse Management Area Project
By John McFerrin The United States Forest Service wants to create and maintain habitat for Ruffed Grouse. In order to do this, it has proposed its Spruce Mountain Grouse Management…
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A few additional notes on that first run of the Gauley River
By Jean Rodman: The trip was run over the long Memorial Day weekend of 1961. It was cold. At one point it snowed on us. There were no easy roads…
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Pioneers down the Gauley
The Charleston Gazetterecently had a story about a reunion of the group that first took kayaks and canoes down the Gauley River in 1968, including the part that is…
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Mountain Valley Pipeline No Longer Approved for Stream Crossings
The Pittsburgh office of the United States Army Corps of Engineers has now suspended the Mountain Valley Pipeline’s authority to cross streams and wetlands. In Previous Episodes (if you have…
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