Cutting down the trees to save the forest
By Olivia Miller A project proposed by the United States Forest Service to clear cut 3,458 acres of older-growth forest stands in sections of the Monongahela National Forest in Tucker [...]
October, just like every other month was once again very busy at the Conservancy as it was for all of the organizations within the environmental community. For the Conservancy, among [...]
November 2020 represents another milestone: Bob Marshall has served as the West Virginia Highlands Conservancy Treasurer for 20 years. Congratulations and a big thank you! The November 2002 issue of The Highlands Voice reported [...]
Goodbye from John As many of you already know, this will be my last issue as editor of The Highlands Voice. This month our new editor, Olivia Miller, and I are doing [...]
The Conservancy’s 2023 Legislative Priorities
The WVHC Legislative Committee will closely follow all bills as they are introduced in the January 2023 regular legislative session to understand their impact on West Virginia public lands. The [...]
Corridor H: What the Engineers Don’t See
By Hugh Rogers When our reports on the Corridor H highway project began appearing as a bimonthly feature, perhaps inevitably they became more technical, more insider baseball. So for the [...]
By Sarah Hinnant This October, the West Virginia Highlands Conservancy welcomed Friends of the Cheat (FOC) board member Sarah Hinnant as a delegate to the WVHC board. Hinnant has served [...]
2022 Fall Review Recap: Empowering West Virginia
Jay Williams gives a tour of the solar panels at his home in Cairo, WV. (Olivia Miller) By Olivia Miller and John McFerrin Members of the West Virginia Highlands Conservancy gathered [...]
Dolly Sods Wilderness Stewards Update
Traffic jam at Dolly Sods. (Dave Johnston) By Dave Johnston The month of October sees the greatest concentrated influx of visitors to the Dolly Sods area, and the Wilderness Stewards were [...]
A White Bergamot in Leadmine, WV. (Paula Stahl) By Paula Stahl Deep in the hills of northern West Virginia is a small community called Leadmine. They changed the signs a few [...]
The Cost of Clear-Cutting our National Forests
(John Coleman) By Steve Coleman and John Coleman You would think the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) would be at the forefront of combating climate change. It’s mission statement is to “sustain the [...]
By John McFerrin For the first time in a long time we crawled out of our little Zoom boxes and had a meeting in person. The meeting featured some new [...]
