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Who Gets Stuck When Mines Fail?
There has been another development as we inch forward to a solution to the problem of how to reclaim failing mines. The West Virginia Highlands Conservancy, the Sierra Club, and the […]
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Thoughts from our president
Public lands provide significant benefits to the public, our environment, and our economy. Our West Virginia public lands, including our state forests and parks as well as our national forests […]
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Is Sauce for the Goose also Sauce for the Gander?
By John McFerrin If we measure an idea by comparing what it accomplishes with what it was supposed to, the Hatfield-McCoy Trail system has been a rousing success. It started off […]
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Off-highway Vehicles: a Threat to Our Public Lands
By Larry Thomas Efforts have been persistent in promoting off-highway vehicle recreation on our public lands, Federal and state, in West Virginia in the state legislature for the last two […]
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WV Legislature- Win Some, Lose Some
By WVHC & WV E-Council legislative committees Sort of like a high stakes poker game, the fate of environmental related bills in the West Virginia State Legislature is both chancy […]
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Board Highlights
By John McFerrin Once again the Board members (and a couple of their cats) climbed into their little Zoom boxes for the quarterly Board meeting. We are thinking that this may […]
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They’re back!
By John McFerrin Brood X of the seventeen year cicadas will be emerging in the eastern panhandle of West Virginia in late May. This is happening only in the eastern […]
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New Climate Goal for the US, Will Others Follow?
On Earth Day, President Biden announced a new United States goal for meeting our obligations under the Paris Climate Agreement. The United States will reduce its carbon dioxide emissions by […]
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Methane
Methane is a powerful greenhouse gas, trapping heat in the atmosphere 30 times greater than carbon dioxide over a 100-year time frame. But unlike carbon dioxide that can impact the […]
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Conservancy Votes to Support Climate Change Legislation
By Perry Bryant In late March, President Biden proposed an infrastructure initiative that included major provisions addressing the climate crisis. Central to the President’s proposal on climate reform is a […]
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