• What Are Synchronous Fireflies?

    Fireflies (also called lightning bugs) are beetles. Most of their lifecycle is spent in the larval stage (1-2 years), where they feed on snails, worms, and smaller…


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  • Dark Skies over Watoga

    By Louanne Fatora Editor’s note: The Watoga State Park Foundation is in the middle of an effort to have Watoga State Park and the adjacent…


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  • Thoughts from our president

    The Conservancy is very excited to welcome Cory Chase our Program Director. Cory will be working with the board and its committee chairs as well as our…


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  • Congress Begins to Shape Climate Policy

    By Perry Bryant, Climate Committee Chairman            There are going to be many twists and turns in the Congressional battle over climate policy. And anything…


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  • Mountain Valley Pipeline Poses Threats to Trout Streams

    By Randy KeslingA saying among anglers is that trout don’t live in ugly places – a nice reminder of what we love about…


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  • Conservation Hub Takes Flight

    By Dan Shaffer In August of last year, shortly after the cancellation of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline, the Allegheny-Blue Ridge Alliance (ABRA) announced the…


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  • Wheeling University Remembers Ben Stout

    By Cindy RankFor those who knew Ben Stout, or worked with him, or heard about him, or read some of his research or…


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  • Walking-Wisdoms

    By Hugh Rogers            Less heart for long walks, more thoughts of walks taken. Some short quotes at the end of Duncan Minshull’s anthology, Beneath My…


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  • Always

                                                    I can easily have a big whirl of being                                                     with the                                                        surge of crossed                                                            lanes of the stucky 


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  • Commenting on the Mountain Valley Pipeline

    Before the Mountain Valley Pipeline would be allowed to cross streams or wetlands in West Virginia, it would need a permit from the United States Corps of…


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