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Dark Sky Week Coming Up
By John McFerrin International Dark Sky Week is coming up April 5-12. West Virginia has several reasons, and places, to celebrate. Dark Sky Week is a project of the International Dark […]
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Forest Service Gauley Project Scrutinized
By Kent Karriker The Monongahela National Forest has proposed to conduct over 2,600 acres of timber harvest and several hundred acres of prescribed fire on the Gauley District near the […]
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Thoughts from our president
February continued the onslaught of freezing temperatures and strong winds (causing wind chills to drop below zero), along with snowstorm after snowstorm blanketing most of the highlands in a wintry […]
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Corridor H’s Construction Company Facing Fines
By John McFerrin From the project’s beginning the West Virginia Highlands Conservancy has opposed Corridor H. Even when it was only an idea–with nothing on the ground—we thought it was a […]
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Untapped Resource – a Hiker/Outdoor User Voluntary Fee
By Linda Cooper Hikers, skiers, campers, RVers, photographers, bird watchers, canoeist and kayakers, plant collectors/ florists, rock climbers, horseback riders, cavers, festival goers, they are all here en masse and […]
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Law School (in a nutshell)
Law schools routinely enthrall (or bore) students with a course called Administrative Law. In the part where they talk about how regulations get made, the lesson is that nothing happens quickly. Agencies […]
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POTUS Reviewing WOTUS?
By John McFerrin President Joe Biden (President of the United States, or POTUS) has directed that the Environmental Protection Agency review the Waters of the United States (or WOTUS) rule. […]
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Bad News (but some hope) for Birds
By John McFerrin On its way out the door the departing administration has taken one final shot (metaphorically speaking) at migratory birds. It has made final a regulation which narrows the […]
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Ongoing Pursuit of Selenium Cleanup
By Cindy Rank Responding to another in what seems to be a never-ending number of coal mines that continue to pollute streams throughout the state with toxic levels of selenium […]
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What is West Virginia’s Energy Future?
By John McFerrin “Coal, is West Virginia”, or so goes the radio jingle that the Friends of Coal sponsors. The tune that goes with it swells; even if some might disagree […]
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