• Proposed Changes Threaten Birds

    Posted on April 1, 2020

    By John McFerrin             The United States Department of the Interior has proposed regulations that would reduce protection for migratory birds through a dramatic reinterpretation of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act. […]

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  • A Little Action at the Pump Storage Project

    Posted on March 4, 2020

    By John McFerrin Although the details about the project are not yet available, there have been some developments in the proposed pump storage project near Bismark in Grant County.  The developers […]

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  • Changes to the Clean Water Rule Have Big Impacts on the Ground

    Posted on March 4, 2020

    By Kurt Fesenmyer High in the headwaters of Back Creek in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia are several small streams that only run after it rains.  Those “ephemeral” tributaries to […]

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  • New Designation for the New River?

    Posted on March 4, 2020

    There has been some activity on the proposal by United States Senators Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), to change the New River Gorge’s designation from the “New […]

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  • Checking in with the Northern Flying Squirrel

    Posted on March 4, 2020

    By John McFerrin The United States Fish and Wildlife Service has done a review of how the Northern Flying Squirrel (Glaucomys sabrinus fuscus) is faring.  It found that the Squirrel is […]

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  • ClimateWise

    Posted on March 4, 2020

    Sequestering carbon dioxide is essential if the world is going to avoid the worst impacts of climate change. Many scientists estimate that in order to stay at a “safe” level […]

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  • Weeks Act Helped Create Monongahela National Forest

    Posted on March 4, 2020

    By Robert Beanblossom  One of the most important pieces of environmental legislation ever enacted by Congress was the passage of the Weeks Act on March 1, 1911. Named for its […]

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  • Crackers and Missing Mountains. Tales within tales.

    Posted on March 4, 2020

    By Marion Harless, West Virginian More taxpayer dollars are going to subsidize construction of huge air-polluting gas cracker plants. Gas and oil are cracked to make stock for plastic. Plastics […]

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  • A Little Legislative News

    Posted on March 4, 2020

    As The Highlands Voice goes to press the West Virginia Legislature is going into its final week.  Committees are committeeing, deals are being cut, politics is being played, etc. etc.  Nobody knows how things […]

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  • Thoughts from our president

    Posted on March 4, 2020

    By John McFerrin             On February 24, 2020, the United States Supreme Court heard arguments on a case concerning the Atlantic Coast Pipeline.  Now we are left to wait, with nothing to […]

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