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Thoughts from our president
October, the month that keeps Mother Nature busy with her paint brush and pallet as she as she goes to work using scarlet, purple, orange, yellow and browns to create […]
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ATVs Still in the East Lynn Wildlife Management Area
By John McFerrin A proposal for an expansion of the Hatfield-McCoy trail system for All Terrain Vehicles (ATVs) in Wayne County has come and gone, leaving what many had seen […]
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Nominating Committee Report
Last year’s Annual Meeting was a bit topsy-turvey due our relative inexperience with Zoom meetings. Consequently, our normal election process was out-of-wack as well and our approach this year is […]
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To protect a fragile biome
By George E. Beetham Jr. We think of wilderness as being a vast expanse of wild land. Indeed, Dolly Sods consists of many acres of land. At the same time […]
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Wilderness Stewards Tackle Fall Crowds
By Dave Johnston The last week of September and first two weeks of October are prime time in Dolly Sods. Although climate change appears to be causing the peak of […]
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Dogs, Birds, Bats, and the Shoenfeld Estimator
By John McFerrin For various reasons operators of industrial wind turbines seek to know the number of birds and bats that are killed by the turbines. Some studies are done as […]
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Coal mine Special Reclamation–What problem? Where?
Cindy Rank If there ever was a robust program on paper that was more like swiss cheese in practice, look no further than the West Virginia coal mine bonding program. […]
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MVP — Many Voices Protest
By Cindy Rank Developers (Dominion) of the previously canceled Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP) are currently considering how to reclaim the abandoned areas of its now defunct plans for its giant […]
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Wilderness Stewards Gird for Fall, Solitude Monitoring
By Dave Johnston Fall is the busiest part of the busy season in the West Virginia highlands, and Dolly Sods is always at the center of the storm. People come […]
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Antennas on Hanging Rock
By Cynthia Ellis Where Do They Go? “Have a nice trip!” That’s a silly something that we birders would sometimes call out to migrating raptors in September as we watched them […]
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