Mountain Valley Pipeline Hits Another Snag
By John McFerrin The Mountain Valley Pipeline faces another setback, this time over a failure by the Fish and Wildlife Service to comply with the Endangered Species Act. The United States [...]
Thoughts from our President: Off-Road Vehicles Pose a Threat to West Virginia Public Lands
West Virginia Highlands Conservancy has a long history of opposing Off-Road Vehicle (ORV) use on our West Virginia federal and state public lands. As reported previously, the Conservancy Legislative Committee, along [...]
Out of Date Legislative Update
By Luanne McGovern A monthly publication such as The Highlands Voice does not come out nearly often enough to keep up with what is going on at the West Virginia Legislature. Things change [...]
Off-Road Vehicle Recreation on West Virginia Public Lands
By Cory Chase The West Virginia Highlands Conservancy, in partnership with the Allegheny-Blue Ridge Alliance’s (ABRA), has just released a new project page about the harmful effects of Off-Road Vehicles (ORVs, a.k.a. Off-Highway [...]
Rare Earth Elements and Critical Minerals from Acid Mine Drainage
By Luanne McGovern If you’ve been following the news from the 2022 West Virginia Legislative session, you know that recovery of Rare Earth Elements (REEs) from Acid Mine Drainage has [...]
By John McFerrin Is geothermal energy a possible source of energy for West Virginia? A modern society needs some way to produce electricity that is available all the time, not [...]
New Guide to the West Virginia Highlands
Jim Van Gundy, former West Virginia Highlands Conservancy Board member and longtime friend of the Highlands Conservancy, has published his book, The Nature and Scenery of the West Virginia Highlands: A [...]
Supporting the Wilderness Climate:
The First Season of Dolly Sods Wilderness Stewards Part 4: Impact and Response By Dave Johnston In the first three parts of this article, which is based on the presentation [...]
John McFerrin; Twenty Years Our Editor
By Cindy Ellis In March, 2002, Frank Young was the president of the West Virginia Highlands Conservancy. In our newsletter, “The Highlands Voice,” he welcomed someone familiar to WVHC but [...]
We are saddened to note the passing of our member Mirijana Beram of Doddridge County. Mirijana was born in Croatia; living here in West Virginia she developed a deep love [...]
We welcome two new members of the Board of Directors. First, we welcome Dave Ruediger as an organizational Director, representing the West Virginia Rivers Coalition. Dave grew up in the woods, rivers and [...]
The National Forest and the Candy Darter
By Rick Webb As described in my presentation for the 2021 Highlands Conservancy Fall Review, current Forest Service management practice does not bode well for preservation and restoration of the [...]
