Calendar

Calendar

October 8 thru 10 - Fall Review in Morgantown.

October 12 - Forest Forum with Dr. Jim Kotcon, WVU Dept. of Plant & Soil Science, and Cindy Huber, USFS, as speakers. Topic: Air Pollution Impacts on West Virginia’s Forests. Held in the Elkins Public Library at 7 PM. Public encouraged to attend. For questions call 637-4082.

October 16 & 17 - Dolly Sods North day hike (Saturday only) and backpack (Saturday and Sunday), sponsored by WVHC. Contact Peter Shoenfeld, (301) 587-6197, peter@cais.net; or Dave Saville, (304) 284-9548, daves@labyrith.net.

October 21 thru 24 - Peace and Global Issues – the 12^th Annual Conference of Concerned Philosophers for Peace. Radford University. Global issues include the nations state system in relation to peace, civil disobedience, environmental, militarism, economics, women’s, media, governance, citizenship, Poverty, human spirituality, weapons for mass destruction, violence, population pressures. Keynote Speaker: John Cairns, Jr. who will speak on "World Peace and Global Sustainability." For information E-mail gmartin@runet.edu phone (540) 831-5213.

October 22 and 23 - National Environmental Careers Conference, Hartford Civic Center, Hartford, CT. Sponsored by Environmental Careers Organization. Contact website www.eco.org for more information and to register.

October 23 - Economic assessment workshop at the Moorefield Middle School from 8:30 to 4 PM. The workshop is free and lunch will be served free of charge. The workshop is geared towards having participants learn how to interpret economic data and use it in their daily lives. For those of us in the green world it will help to understand the economic pressures and details that drive local/state decisions . For more information contact Margaret Janes at (304) 897-6048 .

October 30 (Sat.) - Workshop, "From the River to the Radio," for local watershed groups sponsored by the West Virginia Rivers Coalition. To be held at the USDA Soil and Water Conservation Research Lab, Beckley, from 9 AM to 5 PM. The training will feature Jeff Simmons (environmental science professor at West Virginia Wesleyan College) and Jeff Young (reporter with West Virginia Public Radio). Simmons will lead a session on how to design and implement a basic water quality testing program for activists in local watershed groups, and Young will give a talk on how to best take the watershed group’s message from suchwork to the media and the public. Cost is $10/person; registration deadline for the workshop is Friday, October 23. For more information or to register, call Nathan Fetty at WVRC, (304) 637-7201, or send e-mail to nfetty@neumedia.net.

November 19 thru 21 - the Religious Campaign for Forest Conservation’s national meeting will be held at Blackwater Falls State Park. There will be featured speakers, plus sessions around planning actions for the year 2000 campaign to get logging banned on public lands in all 50 states. Contact Bob Marshall for more info at (304) 372-7501.