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Water Over the Dams These Last 50 Years
By Cindy Rank Just as bumper stickers claiming ‘Water is Life’ can be seen everywhere, one might say water has pretty much been the lifeblood of the West Virginia Highlands […]
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Trail Truthing, Part 5: Your Turn
By Hugh Rogers Ever-resourceful Editor John has proposed a contest for hikers who will help us bring our Monongahela National Forest Hiking Guide up to date. Here’s some background. More […]
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1965 Fall Review
From Fighting to Protect the Highlands, The First Forty Years of the West Virginia Highlands Conservancy by Dave Elkinton As recalled by Maxwell Smith “It was a cold, wet, miserable […]
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From the Archives
Most issues of our monthly newsletter, The Highlands Voice, beginning with Volume 1, in 1969, are archived on our website at www.wvhighlands.org. Enjoy the following highlights taken from; […]
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~FINAL EXAM~
Open Book test. The text: “Fighting to Protect the Highlands: The First Forty Years of the West Virginia Highlands Conservancy” by David P. Elkinton. [texts available in each WV public […]
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Issues
Issues The West Virginia Highlands Conservancy is working in vigorous opposition to coal mining by mountaintop removal. This destructive form of strip mining has gotten out of control. Lawsuits brought […]
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Crosscut saws in the wilderness with the Dolly Sods Wilderness Stewards
By Dave Johnston, Dolly Sods Wilderness Stewards The most fundamental principle of designated wilderness in the United States is that there should be as little human intervention in the natural […]
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West Virginians asked to foot the bill for Virginia’s data center boom
By Olivia Miller, Program Director, West Virginia Highlands Conservancy West Virginians are being asked once again to sacrifice their farmland, their mountains, and their pocketbooks—all to keep the lights on […]
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Advocates alarmed over Army Corps blanket ‘permission to pollute’ proposal in West Virginia
Huntington, W.Va. – Yesterday, Appalachian Mountain Advocates submitted comments on behalf of Appalachian Voices, Coal River Mountain Watch, West Virginia Highlands Conservancy, West Virginia Rivers Coalition, Center for Biological Diversity, […]
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Coal hauling through the Monongahela National Forest has ceased… for now
By Willie Dodson, Appalachian Voices Our collective efforts to defend the Monongahela National Forest and the Cherry River from the abuses of South Fork Coal Company are having an impact. […]
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