• Mountain Valley Pipeline Poses Threats to Trout Streams

    By Randy Kesling A saying among anglers is that trout don’t live in ugly places – a nice reminder of what we love about West Virginia and the cold, clear, […]

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  • Conservation Hub Takes Flight

    By Dan Shaffer  In August of last year, shortly after the cancellation of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline, the Allegheny-Blue Ridge Alliance (ABRA) announced the launch of a new program: the […]

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  • Wheeling University Remembers Ben Stout

    By Cindy Rank For those who knew Ben Stout, or worked with him, or heard about him, or read some of his research or court testimonies about the value of […]

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  • Walking-Wisdoms

    By Hugh Rogers             Less heart for long walks, more thoughts of walks taken. Some short quotes at the end of Duncan Minshull’s anthology, Beneath My Feet: Writers on Walking, have tickled […]

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  • Always

                                                    I can easily have a big whirl of being                                                      with the                                                         surge of crossed                                                             lanes of the stucky                                                                hissing whisk of afternoon tires,                                                                  so dogged eternal                                                 Or that reliable combusting […]

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  • Commenting on the Mountain Valley Pipeline

    Before the Mountain Valley Pipeline would be allowed to cross streams or wetlands in West Virginia, it would need a permit from the United States Corps of Engineers. It had hopes […]

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  • Maury Johnson, Hero from the Holler

    By Cynthia D. Ellis There are many different ways of taking action to protect the West Virginia mountains.  We may know of the quiet work of those who labor at their […]

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  • The Second Atlas of Breeding Birds in West Virginia, Edited by Richard S. Bailey and Casey B. Rucker

    Reviewed by Cynthia D. Ellis It’s here! The long awaited second edition of the West Virginia Breeding Bird Atlas has arrived!  Since the first ever breeding bird atlas in the world […]

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  • Overseeing the Overseers

    By Cindy Rank In 2011 the WV Highlands Conservancy and WV Rivers Coalition successfully sued the state regulatory agency, WV Department of Environmental Protection (WVDEP), to require them to assume […]

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  • What’s afoot with Turkeyfoot

    By Cindy Rank As noted in the April issue of the Voice, West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection (WVDEP) approved a surface mine permit for the Republic Energy (formerly Alpha Metallurgical, […]

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