• 2018 Begins West Virginia Highlands Conservancy Second 50 Years

    Sending everyone good wishes for the New Year, and hopes that it will be filled ONLY with good health, success in all those things that really matter to you…and most […]

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  • West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection Gives Away ANOTHER Chance to Protect State’s Waters

    West Virginia has waived its opportunity to review the Atlantic Coast Pipeline to determine whether it will cause a violation of West Virginia’s water quality standards. Under Section 401 of […]

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  • 2017

    The Highlands Voice The Monthly Publication of West Virginia Highlands Conservancy

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  • While We Sleep

    By Edwina Pendarvis   Salamanders, startled into being, flicker far away.  Through the banked fires of autumn moss and leaf-litter, they arc across the synapses of yellow birch and red […]

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  • Antero Clearwater

    By Cindy Rank Salt, salt, salt ??? Radioactivity??? While the debate rages in trade magazines as to just what might be the accurate long-term predictions for gas prices, availability of […]

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  • Many Christmas Eves

    By Lenora Coberly   After school on December afternoons the children walked up Baptist Church Hill to practice for the Christmas Eve Program.   Mrs. Booth played the piano as […]

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  • The “Shoenfeld Estimator”: Where It Came From and How It Grew

    By Frank Young Back when the first wind farm was proposed for West Virginia ridges (year 2000), I was WVHC president. After about a year of recognizing myself as wind […]

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  • Remembering Peter

    By Hugh Rogers At the celebration of Peter’s life, a full house, very few of whom would have been Jewish, learned multiple meanings of the Hebrew word “shalom.” It is […]

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  • Missing a Mentor

    By George E. Beetham Jr. Peter Schoenfeld was my first contact with the West Virginia Highlands Conservancy. It began with plans for a string of wind turbines stretching along the […]

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  • A Loss of a Friend

    Peter S. Shoenfeld, devoted husband and father, mathematician, and lover of the outdoors, and West Virginia Highlands Conservancy member and Board member, died on Monday, November 13, 2017. Peter was […]

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