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Off Road Vehicles in State Parks? No Way!
By Luanne McGovern Interim sessions of the West Virginia Legislature are usually pretty humdrum affairs, but this was not the case with the September…
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And So I Weed
By Jackie Burns It’s August. In Canaan Valley that means it is time for pulling out Japanese stiltgrass (Microstegium vimineum) so that it doesn’t become…
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Watoga Old-Growth Forest Exploration Outing
By Larry Thomas As Cory and I mentioned in the August Highlands Voice, the Conservancy has revived the outings, with three of the four…
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Mushroom Meander: Another Successful Outing
By Cory Chase The Highlands of West Virginia hold many treasures. One the most diverse–and least understood–is the world of fungi. Modern research is…
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Dolly Sods Wilderness Stewards Update
By Dave Johnston During August the Dolly Sods Wilderness Stewards were all about seeking solitude (or lack thereof) and finding campsites, without staying in…
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The cut
Whether the waters of prosperity have actually flowed down the rivers of concrete of the Appalachian Regional Highway System, as Senator Byrd predicted, is a complicated issue. There…
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The Real Northern Route for Corridor H
By Hugh Rogers In Tucker County, advance men for the Division of Highways (DOH) have been saying that a Northern Route for the Davis-Thomas…
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Corridor H for Dummies
By John McFerrin Corridor H has been around as a proposal since the Johnson (Lyndon, not Andrew) administration and as a controversy for almost…
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Coal Fields to Solar Fields: The Nature Conservancy to Present at Fall Review
By Susan Rosenblum Eriks Brolis, Director of Nature & Economy Programs for The Nature Conservancy (“TNC”), will present on TNC’s Solar on Mine Lands…
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Conserving Wildlife on Pipeline Infrastructure
By Jocelyn J. Phares, Environmental Resources Analyst West Virginia Division of Natural Resources The West Virginia Division of Natural Resources (WVDNR) actively works to…
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