Dolly Sods Wilderness Stewards Project Kicks Off
By Dave Johnston With the signing of a partnership agreement between the West Virginia Highlands Conservancy (WVHC) and the Monongahela National Forest (MNF), the long-planned project to address the impacts [...]
Summer has arrived and during June there were many severe storms with heavy rains here in the highlands. It is fantastic to see the transition of the trees that have [...]
What YOU have done and what YOU can personally do to slow climate change and temperature rise
By Jeff Witten and West Virginia Highlands Conservancy Climate Change Committee WV Mountaineers are resourceful and resilient: “Ask not what others can do to slow climate change - ask what [...]
By Cindy Rank Failing to get approval of the more general Nationwide 404 Clean Water Act permit to allow Mountain Valley Pipeline’s (MVP) stream crossing activities, the company has reapplied [...]
By Cindy Rank As noted in the April issue of the Voice, West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection (WVDEP) approved a surface mine permit for the Republic Energy (formerly Alpha Metallurgical, [...]
By Cindy Rank In 2011 the WV Highlands Conservancy and WV Rivers Coalition successfully sued the state regulatory agency, WV Department of Environmental Protection (WVDEP), to require them to assume [...]
The Second Atlas of Breeding Birds in West Virginia, Edited by Richard S. Bailey and Casey B. Rucker
Reviewed by Cynthia D. Ellis It’s here! The long awaited second edition of the West Virginia Breeding Bird Atlas has arrived! Since the first ever breeding bird atlas in the world [...]
Maury Johnson, Hero from the Holler
By Cynthia D. Ellis There are many different ways of taking action to protect the West Virginia mountains. We may know of the quiet work of those who labor at their [...]
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 Engineers. It had hopes [...]
I can easily have a big whirl of being with the surge of crossed lanes of the stucky hissing whisk of afternoon tires, so dogged eternal Or that reliable combusting [...]
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 Feet: Writers on Walking, have tickled [...]
Wheeling University Remembers Ben Stout
By Cindy Rank For those who knew Ben Stout, or worked with him, or heard about him, or read some of his research or court testimonies about the value of [...]
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 launch of a new program: the [...]
Mountain Valley Pipeline Poses Threats to Trout Streams
By Randy Kesling A saying among anglers is that trout don’t live in ugly places – a nice reminder of what we love about West Virginia and the cold, clear, [...]
