The Hero from the Holler
‘Maury Johnson – The Hero From The Holler’ from the series of short documentaries called “They’re Talking Our Land” filmed, directed and edited by Sarah HazlegroveThere are heroes amongst us and Maury Johnson is one...
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Gas Pipelines: Harming Clean Water, People, and the Planet
Amy Mall, May 24, 2021, Natural Resource Defense Council (NRDC) Amy Mall has worked in NRDC’s Land & Wildlife program since 2001. (This post has been edited for length. See full story HERE.) Oil and...
Fly Fishing Volunteers Needed For Trout Habitat Revitalization Project
April 29, 2021By Autumn Shelton Folks who love fly fishing are needed to help give one Greenbrier County creek a face-lift. According to Bronson Cody Brown, vice president of the Southern WV Chapter of Trout...
Another delay, cost increase for Mountain Valley Pipeline
Laurence HammackRoanoke Times 5.04.21 Mountain Valley Pipeline said Tuesday it will take longer, until summer 2022, and cost more, $6.2 billion, to complete a natural gas pipeline that will run through Southwest Virginia. The latest...
MVP Protest Run
Mercedes Walters, Sarah Hodder, and Katie Thompson began running and cycling April 25th along sections of the Mountain Valley pipeline construction path. They are set to finish on May 4 at Chathem, Virginia. You can...
Candy darter fish gets critical habitat designation, but remains in the path of a pipeline
Laurence Hammack Nearly 370 miles of mountain streams in Virginia and West Virginia have been declared a critical habitat for the candy darter, a small, rainbow-colored fish that two years ago was listed as an...
1 tree-sitter removed from Mountain Valley Pipeline protest site
Laurence Hammack Mar 23, 2021 ELLISTON — One of two Mountain Valley Pipeline protesters was removed from a treetop blockade Tuesday by the long arm of the law, which was made even longer with help...
World Water Day 2021 ~ March 22
By Melissa Breyer In 1993, the United Nations General Assembly designated March 22 as the first World Water Day. And with good reason – without water, we’d be nothing. Just dust. Water is one of...
Gold Rush Returns to West Virginia
The West Virginia Gold Rush returns March 23 – April 3, 2021. For the fourth year in a row, the West Virginia Division of Natural Resources is planning statewide stockings of the Mountain State’s very...
Let WVDEP Know You Want Them to Hold the MVP Accountable for Water Pollution
via WVRivers.org Through March 13, you can make your voice heard on Mountain Valley Pipeline’s recent water quality violations. The Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP), a 303-mile project cutting through Wetzel, Harrison, Doddridge, Lewis, Braxton, Webster, Nicholas, Greenbrier, Summers,...
