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Virtual Board Highlights
Since we are all sheltering in place, staying at least one turkey vulture wingspan apart, we could not have a regular Board meeting this quarter. A big part of the […]
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Thoughts from our president
April was another month of dealing with the restrictions associated with COVID-19, what is now known as the silent enemy. Although the coronavirus has us all hunkered down, Mother Nature […]
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Bonding: Are the chickens finally coming home to roost?
By Cindy Rank West Virginia received approval for primacy for the Surface Mining Regulatory program in 1982-3. As a member of the local group Friends of the Little Kanawha (FOLK) and […]
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Wisps of Clouds
By George E. Beetham Jr. Wisps of clouds ride on the wind Scatter and then assemble again Storm on the mountain rain for the land Water to nourish both creature […]
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Groups Support Critical Habitat for Endangered Crayfish
In February, 2020, The Highlands Voice had a story about the proposal by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service to designate critical habitat for the Big Sandy crayfish (Cambarus callainus) and […]
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WV Legislature- the Good and Not So Good of It
By Frank Young, WV E-Council Legislative Committee Chair The West Virginia state legislature adjourned in mid-March, just as the COVID-19 anxiety was cranking up–thus exchanging one social plague for another. We […]
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ClimateWise April 2020
By the West Virginia Highlands Conservancy Climate Change Committee While it’s hard to think about climate change when our world has been totally disrupted by coronavirus, the WVHC Climate Change […]
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Why Bats?
By Katherine McFerrin Amid the COVID-19 pandemic one might wonder how this virus came to be. While it’s well known that the virus came from a live-animal wet market in […]
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Changes Proposed to NEPA Rules
By John McFerrin Council on Environmental Quality has proposed changes to the regulations on how the National Environmental Policy Act is implemented. If the changes become final, they would limit the […]
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How to Do Social Distancing
For the last few weeks there have been innumerable (The Highlands Voice’s crack staff of enumerators lost count at a bazillion and twelve) newspaper and magazine stories full of tips on […]
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