November 14 (Sunday) -- public hearing before Judiciary Subcommittee A on quarries at 2:00 PM at the US Fish and Wildlife Conservation Training Center in Shepherdstown.

November 15 -- Quarry tour from 1:00 to 5:00 PM. Open to the public. If the tour bus is filled up, then cars can follow it.

November 18 -- EPA meeting on the technical projects being done in association with the Mountain Top Mining EIS from 8:30 to 5 at the WV Department of Environmental Protection office in Nitro. Since seating will be limited, if you or someone you know would like to attend please contact Dave Vande Linde at (304) 759-0510 or fax (304) 759-05278. The intent of the meeting is a technical review of the projects associated with the EIS on Mountain Top Mining and Fills.

Experts from the industry and environmental communities are being invited to participate in the all-day meeting to review progress on the studies. A summary of the results will be provided in EIS Bulletin 4.

November 19 thru 21 - the Religious Campaign for Forest Conservation’s national meeting will be held at Blackwater Falls State Park. There will be featured speakers, plus sessions around planning actions for the year 2000 campaign to get logging banned on public lands in all 50 states. Contact Bob Marshall for more info at (304) 372-7501.

November 29 -- public hearing 7 PM at the Environmental Quality Board office, 1615 Washington Street East, Charleston regarding the alternatives for Category/Public A (that's your drinking water!). Plan come and give a short statement to the EQB on this!! Call Pam Moe-Merritt 637-7201 or Cindy Rank 924-5802 for more info.)

January 8, 2000 (Saturday) -- Winter board meeting of the West Virginia Highlands Conservancy at 10:00 AM. Location not yet certain, probably either Burnsville or Flatwoods.