• Getting Ready for the Legislative Session

    Even if 2021 seems like a long way off, it is time to start planning for the 2021 session of the West Virginia Legislature.  As usual, we can count on a […]

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  • More Climate Change Survey Data

    As reported in earlier issues of The Highlands Voice, the West Virginia Highlands Conservancy has published a survey (March, 2020) on climate change and published the results of the survey (May, 2020). […]

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  • A Little Update

    As reported in the May issue of The Highlands Voice, a United States District Court Judge in Montana has voided Nationwide Permit 12, an important permit that is necessary for waterways and […]

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  • The Atlantic Coast Pipeline and the Law

    By John McFerrin             Now that the Atlantic Coast Pipeline has been cancelled, there will always remain the question of whether it was ever really possible.             Of course, anything is possible […]

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  • Trout Unlimited and Forest Service Team Up to Reconnect Trout Stream in Virginia

    By Dylan Cooper   An important historical site in Virginia got a long-awaited face-lift after more than 70 years of being hampered by the presence of man-made barriers to aquatic organism […]

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  • Some Hope for Migratory Birds

    One of the perils facing migratory birds is collisions with buildings.  Estimates on how many birds die annually from collisions with buildings vary widely but, in the United States, it is […]

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  • Bluestone Coal Sings the Blues

    By Cindy Rank Voice deadlines often rattle my brain as I puzzle over how to relate a recent development in some one of our, by now, four score and umpteen legal […]

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  • Leer Mine Revision Threatens the Tygart

    By Cindy Rank For the past ten years readers of the Highlands Voice have seen a multitude of articles about Arch Coal’s ICG Tygart Leer mine next to the Tygart Lake and […]

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  • Water Works

    By Cindy Ellis In 2012, the West Virginia Highlands Conservancy and allies hosted a “Wellness and Water” conference in Morgantown, followed by similar day-long or weekend meetings in Buckhannon in […]

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  • Mind Boggling Mine Bonding

    By Cindy Rank In the May 2020 issue of The Highlands Voice and again in June we talked a lot about chickens coming home to roost, how the bonding program in West […]

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