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Water Over the Dams These Last 50 Years
By Cindy Rank Just as bumper stickers claiming ‘Water is Life’ can be seen everywhere, one might say water has pretty much been the lifeblood of the West Virginia Highlands […]
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Trail Truthing, Part 5: Your Turn
By Hugh Rogers Ever-resourceful Editor John has proposed a contest for hikers who will help us bring our Monongahela National Forest Hiking Guide up to date. Here’s some background. More […]
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1965 Fall Review
From Fighting to Protect the Highlands, The First Forty Years of the West Virginia Highlands Conservancy by Dave Elkinton As recalled by Maxwell Smith “It was a cold, wet, miserable […]
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From the Archives
Most issues of our monthly newsletter, The Highlands Voice, beginning with Volume 1, in 1969, are archived on our website at www.wvhighlands.org. Enjoy the following highlights taken from; […]
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~FINAL EXAM~
Open Book test. The text: “Fighting to Protect the Highlands: The First Forty Years of the West Virginia Highlands Conservancy” by David P. Elkinton. [texts available in each WV public […]
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Issues
Issues The West Virginia Highlands Conservancy is working in vigorous opposition to coal mining by mountaintop removal. This destructive form of strip mining has gotten out of control. Lawsuits brought […]
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Thoughts from the Vice President
By Luanne McGovern I just returned from a wonderful two-week trip to Ireland, the Emerald Isle. I have to say, though, that West Virginia in May is even greener than […]
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Candy Darters Caught in the Crossroads
By Olivia Miller On January 10, the West Virginia Highlands Conservancy joined Appalachian Voices, the Center for Biological Diversity, Greenbrier River Watershed Association, Kanawha Forest Coalition, and the Sierra Club […]
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Wilderness Trails (Part Two of Part Two)
By Dave Johnston In the first part of this series, we looked at how trails–unquestionably a human structure–can be justified, and even encouraged, in Wilderness areas, which by definition are […]
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The Scourge of Eagles: Lead Shot
By Cindy Ellis “Have you seen the Bald Eagle?” That is the question posed more and more often to me as I’ve birded for decades across West Virginia and the […]
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