• SAVE THE DATE!

    West Virginia Highlands Conservancy Fall Review When: Fri. 10/18,Sat.10/19 and  Sun. 10/20 Where: Elk River Inn and Restaurant, Slatyfork, WV What: Outings, Programs, Panels and Fun Theme: Seeking a sustainable […]

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  • Celebrating 30 years as a West Virginian

    By Sheila McEntee This year, I celebrate 30 years as a West Virginian. I was born in Maryland and later lived in Massachusetts and North Carolina. But I’ve never lived […]

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  • Recovering the Natural Wealth of Our Rivers

    By Chris Wood In early 2019, while helping the Department of Natural Resources to stock trout in a stream, West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice said, “We dump a bunch of […]

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  • A Milestone

    According to data published by the United States Energy Information Agency, in April, 2019, for the first time ever, the renewable energy sector (hydro, biomass, wind, solar and geothermal) generated […]

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  • FOREST FORENSICS: Clues in the Woods to History

    By Chris Bolgiano “Good fences make good neighbors,” wrote Robert Frost in his poem, “Mending Wall.” He was being ironic, because the point of his poem was to question building […]

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  • (Non)Update

    In October, 2018, and November, 2018, The Highlands Voicereported that the Circuit Court of Summers County had temporarily prohibited the crossing of the Greenbrier River by the Mountain Valley Pipeline.  […]

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  • Wool Gathering

    I am watching shadow patterns move across the gray roof of my neighbor’s place, watching tips of winter trees begin to show spring’s ochre, their sharpness go soft, mauve.   […]

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  • Paste This in Your Hiking Guide

    By Hugh Rogers Two pages in the front of the new edition of the Monongahela National Forest Hiking Guide alert the reader to “Changes in This 9th Edition.” Going beyond […]

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  • Fire Damages the Highlander Center

    By Dave Cooper The Highlander Education and Research Center, located northeast of Knoxville, in New Market, Tennessee is the historic civil rights and labor training center where Rosa Parks received […]

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  • Groups Trying to Enforce Clean Water Act

    By John McFerrin The West Virginia Highlands Conservancy has joined with the West Virginia Rivers Coalition, the Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition, Appalachian Voices, and the Sierra Club in a notice […]

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