While We Sleep

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 spruce on mountain peaks lifted from…

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Antero Clearwater

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 shale…

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Many Christmas Eves

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 we marched and sang of the long ago…

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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…

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Remembering Peter

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…

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Missing a Mentor

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…

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A Loss of a Friend

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…

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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,…

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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…

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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…

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