Seeing the Sinks of Gandy

One of the field trips offered at the Fall Review was to the Sinks of Gandy.  It was way fun. Before it gets to the Sinks of Gandy, Gandy Creek…

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Board Highlights

By John McFerrin The October, 2018, gathering of the West Virginia Highlands Conservancy featured two meetings.  The first was the Annual Meeting, held once a year to elect officers and…

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Highlands Conservancy Finds Flaws in Proposed Spruce Mountain Grouse Management Area Project

By John McFerrin The United States Forest Service wants to create and maintain habitat for Ruffed Grouse.  In order to do this, it has proposed its Spruce Mountain Grouse Management…

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A few additional notes on that first run of the Gauley River

By Jean Rodman: The trip was run over the long Memorial Day weekend of 1961. It was cold. At one point it snowed on us. There were no easy roads…

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Pioneers down the Gauley

The Charleston Gazetterecently had a story about a reunion of the group that first took kayaks and canoes down the Gauley River in 1968, including the part that is…

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Mountain Valley Pipeline No Longer Approved for Stream Crossings

The Pittsburgh office of the United States Army Corps of Engineers has now suspended the Mountain Valley Pipeline’s authority to cross streams and wetlands. In Previous Episodes (if you have…

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Still No Pipeline Crossing the Greenbrier River

The Circuit Court of Summers County, Judge Robert Irons, has now heard evidence and arguments concerning the Mountain Valley Pipelines and its Natural Stream Preservation Act Permit to cross…

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20 Years of Red Spruce Ecosystem Restoration

By Dave Saville Twenty years ago, Highlands Conservancy members were concerned about the Balsam Woolly Adelgid and the exotic insect pest’s decimation of the balsam fir stands in West Virginia. …

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The con at the heart of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline

By Robert Zullo It can’t be said enough, and it’s something that’s easy to lose sight of amid the labyrinthine legal and permitting debates around the Atlantic Coast Pipeline,…

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