“Finish It!” – But How?

By Hugh Rogers              “Corridor H—Finish It!” say the faded blue stickers on more than a few trucks around here. The stickers are old but the message still lives. In June, [...]

Thoughts from our president

September is here and once again we will see the spectacular annual transformation of the mountains to the vibrant shades of orange, yellow, and red. It is very interesting to read [...]

Save the date!

Fall Review and Annual Meeting on Saturday and Sunday, October 30 and 31, 2021 The theme of this year’s Fall Review is Climate Change.  Although plans are preliminary, on Saturday we [...]

Antennas on Hanging Rock

By Cynthia Ellis Where Do They Go? “Have a nice trip!”  That’s a silly something that we birders would sometimes call out to migrating raptors in September as we watched them [...]

Wilderness Stewards Gird for Fall, Solitude Monitoring

By Dave Johnston Fall is the busiest part of the busy season in the West Virginia highlands, and Dolly Sods is always at the center of the storm. People come [...]

MVP — Many Voices Protest

By Cindy Rank Developers (Dominion) of the previously canceled Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP) are currently considering how to reclaim the abandoned areas of its now defunct plans for its giant [...]

Coal mine Special Reclamation–What problem? Where?

Cindy Rank If there ever was a robust program on paper that was more like swiss cheese in practice, look no further than the West Virginia coal mine bonding program. [...]

Dogs, Birds, Bats, and the Shoenfeld Estimator

By John McFerrin             For various reasons operators of industrial wind turbines seek to know the number of birds and bats that are killed by the turbines.  Some studies are done as [...]