West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection Gives Away Chance to Protect State’s Waters
West Virginia has waived its opportunity to review the Mountain Valley Pipeline to determine whether it will cause a violation of West Virginia’s water quality standards. Under Section 401 of [...]
Should old acquaintance be forgot, and never brought to mind? Should old acquaintance be forgot, and old lang syne? Our 50th year is ending. Our old times and old [...]
In an effort to find out about activities and initiataives in the Monongahela National Forest, West Virginia Highlands Conservancy Board member Adam Casseday interviewed District Ranger Jack Tribble of the [...]
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Forest Service Approves Right of Way for Atlantic Coast Pipeline
The United States Forest Service has approved the crossing of the George Washington and Monongahela National Forests by the Atlantic Coast Pipeline. This is no surprise. In July, 2017, the [...]
National Forest Service Approves Mountain Valley Pipeline Across Jefferson National Forest
The National Forest Service has decided to amend its Forest Management Plan for the Jefferson National Forest. This would make it possible for the Mountain Valley Pipeline to cross the [...]
The People Speak about the Clean Power Plan
By John McFerrin From all over West Virginia, they came. From around the country, they came. With a stubborn determination to say something, even when you know nobody is listening, [...]
Peter S. Shoenfeld, devoted husband and father, mathematician, and lover of the outdoors, and West Virginia Highlands Conservancy member and Board member, died on Monday, November 13, 2017. Peter was [...]
By George E. Beetham Jr. Peter Schoenfeld was my first contact with the West Virginia Highlands Conservancy. It began with plans for a string of wind turbines stretching along the [...]
By Hugh Rogers At the celebration of Peter’s life, a full house, very few of whom would have been Jewish, learned multiple meanings of the Hebrew word “shalom.” It is [...]
The “Shoenfeld Estimator”: Where It Came From and How It Grew
By Frank Young Back when the first wind farm was proposed for West Virginia ridges (year 2000), I was WVHC president. After about a year of recognizing myself as wind [...]
By Lenora Coberly After school on December afternoons the children walked up Baptist Church Hill to practice for the Christmas Eve Program. Mrs. Booth played the piano as [...]
By Cindy Rank Salt, salt, salt ??? Radioactivity??? While the debate rages in trade magazines as to just what might be the accurate long-term predictions for gas prices, availability of [...]
By Edwina Pendarvis Salamanders, startled into being, flicker far away. Through the banked fires of autumn moss and leaf-litter, they arc across the synapses of yellow birch and red [...]
