Card – Appalachian Mountain Advocates/Sierra Club – 3/14/22
Off-road vehicles pose threat to public lands
A new project added this week to ABRA’s Conservation Hub highlights the growing threat off-road-vehicles (ORVs) pose to the environmental integrity of public lands. Sponsored by the West Virginia Highlands Conservancy, the project includes an interactive online map to help
Solar boosters pool money and know-how to put panels on neighbors’ homes
Card – Energy News Network – 1/3/22
Arctic Report Card: Climate change transforming Arctic into ‘dramatically different state’
Card – National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration – 12/14/21 Related: Arctic Report Card: Update for 2021
May 19 Endangered Species Day: Mountain Valley Pipeline Continues To Harm Their Habitats
Card – Blue Virginia – 5/19/21
Danger continues for the endangered Candy Darter
The Candy Darter, a small fish found in mountain streams in Virginia and West Virginia, was added in 2018 to the list of endangered species by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS), and its critical habitat area was officially
Candy darter fish gets critical habitat designation, but remains in the path of a pipeline
Card – The Roanoke Times – 4/9/21
Why Seagrass Could Be the Ocean’s Secret Weapon Against Climate Change
Card – Smithsonian Magazine – 12/2020
Comments Filed Opposing Endangered Species Act Modification
Sixty-Four conservation organizations, including ABRA and several of its members, filed comments on September 3 with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Marine Fisheries Service in response to a proposal by the two agencies to define “habitat”
Virginia’s vanishing bee: State works to save rusty patched bumblebee
Card – Virginia Mercury – 9/8/20 Related: No critical habitat for this once-common bumblebee