-
Congress fails to reauthorize the Land and Water Conservation Fund
National and State of West Virginia conservation and recreation groups have requested that legislators permanently reauthorize theLand and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) and not to allow the LWCF to…
Continue reading -
Pipelines and the National Forests: A Conflict of Values
By Lewis Freeman, Executive Director, Allegheny-Blue Ridge Alliance It has been over four years since the first proposals were set forth to build two natural gas pipelines that begin in…
Continue reading -
A Tiny Little Update
In August, the Voicereported that the Land and Water Conservation Fund is in peril. The Land and Water Conservation Fund is funded by part of the royalties from offshore…
Continue reading -
THE ATLANTIC COAST PIPELINE’S TIMELINE OF DEFIANCE
Assembled by Rick Webb, Highlands Conservancy Board Member and Chair of the Allegheny-Blue Ridge Alliance CSI Program When the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) approved construction of the ACP in…
Continue reading -
One Bird’s Story
By LeJay Graffious Maggie Perl returns from the net lanes with several brown paper bags, each labeled with a bird alpha code and twisted at the top to create a…
Continue reading -
Building the Banding Building
By LeJay Graffious The small banding building is only used for about 2 months and is assembled and taken apart each year. The idea for a shelter began in 1979,…
Continue reading -
Where do the birds go from here?
By LeJay Graffious Joan Bell Pattison maintains the recovery data related to the AFMO. Fewer than 100 birds banded at AFMO have been found away from the station. This rate…
Continue reading -
Banding Birds for Over Six Decades
By LeJay Graffious Each year, in late summer through early fall, volunteers gather near Red Creek campground on the Dolly Sods Wilderness Area, to help with banding efforts of migrating…
Continue reading -
Wanted: Membership and Fulfillment Secretary
After eleven+ years in the position, Beth Little is retiring and resigning her position at the West Virginia Highlands Conservancy. Because of that THE WEST VIRGINIA HIGHLANDS CONSERVANCY, the state’s…
Continue reading -
Remembering Ben Stout
By Cindy Rank Ben Stout, father, teacher, friend, scientist, ecologist, activist and lover of life, died August 3, 2018. Since then there has been an outpouring of fond remembrances from…
Continue reading