By Hugh Rogers The state Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) has issued a cease-and-desist order to Kokosing Company, which is building a 7.5-mile section of Corridor H in Tucker County. [...]
Thoughts from our president: Reviewing the review
October was a very busy month, saddened by the loss of a longtime, from the beginning of the West Virginia Highlands Conservancy, friend, board member and supporter of the Conservancy [...]
Dear Members, This is a message – an abject apology - to our members who have recently renewed. There was what I am sure was a frustrating problem, in that [...]
The con at the heart of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline
By Robert Zullo It can’t be said enough, and it’s something that’s easy to lose sight of amid the labyrinthine legal and permitting debates around the Atlantic Coast Pipeline, which [...]
20 Years of Red Spruce Ecosystem Restoration
By Dave Saville Twenty years ago, Highlands Conservancy members were concerned about the Balsam Woolly Adelgid and the exotic insect pest’s decimation of the balsam fir stands in West Virginia. [...]
Still No Pipeline Crossing the Greenbrier River
The Circuit Court of Summers County, Judge Robert Irons, has now heard evidence and arguments concerning the Mountain Valley Pipelines and its Natural Stream Preservation Act Permit to cross the [...]
Mountain Valley Pipeline No Longer Approved for Stream Crossings
The Pittsburgh office of the United States Army Corps of Engineers has now suspended the Mountain Valley Pipeline’s authority to cross streams and wetlands. In Previous Episodes (if you have [...]
The Charleston Gazetterecently had a story about a reunion of the group that first took kayaks and canoes down the Gauley River in 1968, including the part that is now [...]
A few additional notes on that first run of the Gauley River
By Jean Rodman: The trip was run over the long Memorial Day weekend of 1961. It was cold. At one point it snowed on us. There were no easy roads [...]
It is altogether fitting that Jean Rodman’s last contribution to the West Virginia Highlands Conservancy was the story on the facing page, and that its last line was, “Last month [...]
Highlands Conservancy Finds Flaws in Proposed Spruce Mountain Grouse Management Area Project
By John McFerrin The United States Forest Service wants to create and maintain habitat for Ruffed Grouse. In order to do this, it has proposed its Spruce Mountain Grouse Management [...]
By John McFerrin The October, 2018, gathering of the West Virginia Highlands Conservancy featured two meetings. The first was the Annual Meeting, held once a year to elect officers and [...]
One of the field trips offered at the Fall Review was to the Sinks of Gandy. It was way fun. Before it gets to the Sinks of Gandy, Gandy Creek [...]
