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2023 West Virginia Legislature Update
By Luanne McGovernThe 2023 West Virginia legislative session kicked off in Charleston on Jan. 11. So far over 1,500 bills have been introduced. The WV Highlands Conservancy, in conjunction with the WV […]
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EPA Wants to Plug the Leaks at Gas Wells
By John McFerrin My mother hated waste. In a household headed by Depression era babies, we did it all: reusing wrapping paper, turning off the lights when leaving the room, […]
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Thoughts from our President
By Larry Thomas Winter certainly has arrived in the highlands with freezing temperatures, strong winds (causing wind chills to drop below zero) and several snowstorms blanketing the mountains. We have […]
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Making Permit Reviews More Efficient?
By John McFerrin For at least the second time, Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV)’s dream that we should fast track proposed infrastructure projects has been thwarted. His idea was to shorten […]
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Make Your Voice Heard! Corridor H Commenting Period extended to Jan. 6
The final day to submit comments to the West Virginia Division of Highways concerning the two remaining unfinished sections of Corridor H—the ten-mile section from Parsons to Davis and the […]
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Groups Weigh in on how to Best Implement the Inflation Reduction Act
With the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act in 2022, the United States made a historic investment in farmers and ranchers to bolster the transition to climate-smart agricultural practices. The […]
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Water Quality Testing for Corridor H Construction Impacts Continues
Mimi Kibler takes a stream water measurement at Dry Run on Sugarlands Rd. near Hambleton, West Virginia. In June 2022 a Water Quality Monitoring Task Force was created through a […]
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Will WV legislators put our drinking water at risk? Again?
By Olivia Miller On Jan. 9, 2014, an estimated 10,000 gallons of chemicals leaked from an aboveground storage tank into the Elk River through a tiny, one-inch hole. The steel […]
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There Were No Flowers: Ethical Nature Photography
(Photo by Dave Johnston) By Dave Johnston Ever since the advent of photography, photographers have been taking and sharing pictures of the astonishing beauty of our natural world. Early photographers […]
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It’s That Serious: A Collection of Comments on Corridor H
Corridor H construction in Holly Meadows, West Virginia, in Dec. 2022. By Hugh Rogers Since the partial settlement of a federal lawsuit allowed construction to resume on Corridor H, West […]
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