Mountain Valley Pipeline Poses Threats to Trout Streams

By Randy Kesling A saying among anglers is that trout don’t live in ugly places – a nice reminder of what we love about…

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Conservation Hub Takes Flight

By Dan Shaffer  In August of last year, shortly after the cancellation of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline, the Allegheny-Blue Ridge Alliance (ABRA) announced the…

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Wheeling University Remembers Ben Stout

By Cindy Rank For those who knew Ben Stout, or worked with him, or heard about him, or read some of his research or…

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Walking-Wisdoms

By Hugh Rogers             Less heart for long walks, more thoughts of walks taken. Some short quotes at the end of Duncan Minshull’s anthology, Beneath My…

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Always

                                                I can easily have a big whirl of being                                                      with the                                                         surge of crossed                                                             lanes of the stucky 

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Commenting on the Mountain Valley Pipeline

Before the Mountain Valley Pipeline would be allowed to cross streams or wetlands in West Virginia, it would need a permit from the United States Corps of…

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Maury Johnson, Hero from the Holler

By Cynthia D. Ellis There are many different ways of taking action to protect the West Virginia mountains.  We may know of the quiet work…

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The Second Atlas of Breeding Birds in West Virginia, Edited by Richard S. Bailey and Casey B. Rucker

Reviewed by Cynthia D. Ellis It’s here!  The long awaited second edition of the West Virginia Breeding Bird Atlas has arrived!   Since…

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Overseeing the Overseers

By Cindy Rank In 2011 the WV Highlands Conservancy and WV Rivers Coalition successfully sued the state regulatory agency, WV Department of Environmental Protection…

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What’s afoot with Turkeyfoot

By Cindy Rank As noted in the April issue of the Voice, West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection (WVDEP) approved a surface mine permit for…

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