• 2022 Fall Review Recap: Empowering West Virginia

    Jay Williams gives a tour of the solar panels at his home in Cairo, WV. (Olivia Miller) By Olivia Miller and John McFerrin Members of the West Virginia Highlands Conservancy gathered […]

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    Partners Make Progress

    By Sarah Hinnant This October, the West Virginia Highlands Conservancy welcomed Friends of the Cheat (FOC) board member Sarah Hinnant as a delegate to the WVHC board. Hinnant has served […]

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  • Corridor H: What the Engineers Don’t See

    By Hugh Rogers When our reports on the Corridor H highway project began appearing as a bimonthly feature, perhaps inevitably they became more technical, more insider baseball.  So for the […]

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    The Conservancy’s 2023 Legislative Priorities

    The WVHC Legislative Committee will closely follow all bills as they are introduced in the January 2023 regular legislative session to understand their impact on West Virginia public lands. The […]

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    Comings and goings

    Goodbye from John  As many of you already know, this will be my last issue as editor of The Highlands Voice.  This month our new editor, Olivia Miller, and I are doing […]

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    Another Milestone

    November 2020 represents another milestone: Bob Marshall has served as the West Virginia Highlands Conservancy Treasurer for 20 years. Congratulations and a big thank you! The November 2002 issue of The Highlands Voice reported […]

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  • Thoughts from our president

    October, just like every other month was once again very busy at the Conservancy as it was for all of the organizations within the environmental community. For the Conservancy, among […]

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  • Cutting down the trees to save the forest

    By Olivia Miller  A project proposed by the United States Forest Service to clear cut 3,458 acres of older-growth forest stands in sections of the Monongahela National Forest in Tucker […]

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  • Connecting the Wild:  A Bridge to the Wilderness

    By Randy Kessling In a letter of August 20, 2022, Shane Jones, Ecosystems Staff Officer for the US Forest Service, asked the Highlands Conservancy if it would support its proposed […]

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  • Birding on Farm View Trail

    Our final outing for the summer consisted of a delightful Labor Day Weekend bird walk along one of the Canaan Valley National Wildlife Refuge’s newest routes: Farm View Trail. A partial […]

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