• Details on the Electric Vehicles Tax Credits

    Currently, the tax credit for electric vehicles (EVs) is limited to the first 200,000 customers for each car manufacturer. Tesla and General Motors have already reached that limit and Toyota […]

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  • Groups Sue Mine Over Ongoing Pollution

    By John McFerrin             The West Virginia Highlands Conservancy has joined with the Kanawha Forest Coalition and Appalachian Voices in a suit against Keystone West Virginia over its operation of strip […]

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  • Whip-poor-wills make synchronized trip south

    Using GPS tags attached to Eastern Whip-poor-wills, researchers discovered that birds from across the Midwest all traveled a similar migratory path and moved at nearly the same time in the […]

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  • Thoughts from our president

    It’s October and Mother Nature is very busy with the annual coloring of the leaves. Driving through the mountains, it is very evident witnessing the annual transformation from green to […]

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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 2022 session. The Parks, Recreation and […]

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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 the problem here that it has […]

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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 planned outings completed and one remaining […]

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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 revealing the intricacies and importance that […]

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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 them. Let me explain. Solitude One […]

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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 will always be […]

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