Off Road Vehicles in State Parks? No Way!
By Luanne McGovern Interim sessions of the West Virginia Legislature are usually pretty humdrum affairs, but this was not the case with the September 2022 session. The Parks, Recreation and [...]
It’s October and Mother Nature is very busy with the annual coloring of the leaves. Driving through the mountains, it is very evident witnessing the annual transformation from green to [...]
Whip-poor-wills make synchronized trip south
Using GPS tags attached to Eastern Whip-poor-wills, researchers discovered that birds from across the Midwest all traveled a similar migratory path and moved at nearly the same time in the [...]
Groups Sue Mine Over Ongoing Pollution
By John McFerrin The West Virginia Highlands Conservancy has joined with the Kanawha Forest Coalition and Appalachian Voices in a suit against Keystone West Virginia over its operation of strip [...]
Details on the Electric Vehicles Tax Credits
Currently, the tax credit for electric vehicles (EVs) is limited to the first 200,000 customers for each car manufacturer. Tesla and General Motors have already reached that limit and Toyota [...]
Groups Appeal Decision on Mountain Valley Pipeline Extension
The developers of the Mountain Valley Pipeline have requested, and received, an extension from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) of the time limit to complete construction. Several groups and [...]
Details on the Energy Efficiency Rebates
There is one revived tax credit program for energy efficiency and two new rebate energy efficiency programs in the IRA. The tax credit program, now called the Energy Efficiency Home [...]
Dolly Sods Wilderness Stewards Update
By Dave Johnston The month of September gave us a chance to finish up and assess the results of several projects in the Dolly Sods Wilderness, gear up for the [...]
Our final outing for the summer consisted of a delightful Labor Day Weekend bird walk along one of the Canaan Valley National Wildlife Refuge’s newest routes: Farm View Trail. A partial [...]
Connecting the Wild: A Bridge to the Wilderness
By Randy Kessling In a letter of August 20, 2022, Shane Jones, Ecosystems Staff Officer for the US Forest Service, asked the Highlands Conservancy if it would support its proposed [...]
