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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. I am remembering that today, driving back…
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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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Groups Ask Corps to Not Let West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection Make Pipeline Permitting Easier
By John McFerrin As reported in the May, 2019, issue of The Highlands Voice, the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) has changed the conditions that are placed on…
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Thoughts from our president
June, in addition to providing another abundance of rain, has produced a flurry of information and actions that will be of interest to West Virginia Highlands Conservancy members. Proposed Pump…
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West Virginia Supreme Court Stands Up for Surface Owners
By John McFerrin The West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals has ruled that a gas company may not use surface of one landowner’s land in order to extract gas from…
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Pollinators in the Environment
By Sam Golston, Master Beekeeper Most of us are oblivious to insects and consider them a nuisance. We try to eliminate them from our surroundings. As a Beekeeper for over…
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Another side of Porte Crayon
We are all familiar with Porte Crayon (pen name of David Hunter Strother) for his iconic drawings of what is now the Monongahela National Forest and nearby lands. There…
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Plugging Old Gas Wells: Small Steps Forward but Not There Yet
By David McMahon Orphaned oil and gas wells have always been a problem. Wells need to be plugged at the end of their useful lives to prevent oil and gas…
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