• Thank you

    The West Virginia Highlands Conservancy very much appreciates the generous bequest received from the Estate of Lawrence Woodward “Luke” Franzheim, III of Springfield, Ohio, formerly of Wheeling, West Virginia. Among […]

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  • Mountain Hydrology Lab Addresses Water Security and Climate Change

    By Cory Chase On November 12, I had the pleasure of interviewing Nicolas (Nico) Zégre, PhD, about climate change and the future of WV’s water. Nicolas is an associate professor […]

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  • Thoughts from our president

    Another incredibly challenging year has come to an end. Looking back, I have been thinking, where did it go, seems to have just zoomed by. Unfortunately, the Covid19 pandemic, now […]

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  • Corridor H: Whose Highway?

    By Hugh Rogers          An elected official in Tucker County asked me where I was from. “Randolph County,” I said. “Kerens.” “Off the mountain,” she said. I nodded. Then she told […]

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  • 2021

    The Highlands Voice The Monthly Publication of West Virginia Highlands Conservancy Special offer: Sign up here for a free six-month trial to the Highlands Voice. Please consider becoming a WVHC […]

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  • The Highlands Voice Scoops The New York Times

    Date The Highlands Voice reported that Watoga State Park had achieved Dark Sky status:  November 1, 2021 Date The New York Times reported that Watoga State Park had achieved Dark Sky status:  November 8, 2021 So […]

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  • Learning Where the Birds Go

    The September, 2021, issue of The Highlands Voice had a story of the installation of tracking equipment at the Hanging Rock Raptor Observatory in Monroe County.  While birders have been going there for years […]

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  • West Virginia Highlands Conservancy Sets Legislative Priorities

    What legislative advocacy the Highlands Conservancy does is done through the West Virginia Environmental Council.  Because the Highlands Conservancy itself doesn’t have the resources or any special expertise to hire a […]

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  • Furious

    Wildland; The Making of America’s Fury by Evan Osnos, (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, New York, 2021). Reviewed by Cynthia D. Ellis Some of us, in the New Year, may be reflecting […]

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  • MOUNTAINS, NORTHERN KANAWHA COUNTY

    Upon the bank a haze of bluets pool, and I wade there refreshed, lost in spring, myself, all I can get being on a bank in a haze of bluets… […]

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