Connecting the Wild:  A Bridge to the Wilderness

By Randy KesslingIn a letter of August 20, 2022, Shane Jones, Ecosystems Staff Officer for the US Forest Service, asked the Highlands Conservancy…

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Birding on Farm View Trail

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…

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Dolly Sods Wilderness Stewards Update

By Dave JohnstonThe month of September gave us a chance to finish up and assess the results of several projects in the Dolly…

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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,…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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Thoughts from our president

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…

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Off Road Vehicles in State Parks?  No Way!

By Luanne McGovernInterim sessions of the West Virginia Legislature are usually pretty humdrum affairs, but this was not the case with the September…

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