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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Hunting and Fishing Expanded on Wildlife Refuges
The United States Secretary of the Interior has announced a proposal for new or expanded hunting and fishing opportunities at 74 national wildlife refuges and 15 national fish hatcheries managed [...]
