Sponsor: West Virginia Highlands Conservancy
Developer: Lobbyists & Legislators in WV
Lobbyists and legislators have persistently promoted off-highway vehicle recreation on West Virginia’s public lands, Federal and state, for the last two years.
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 educate the public and legislators regarding the impacts on West Virginia’s public lands.
‘Make it more environmentally sound’: Citizen group takes on popular Southwest Va. trail network
- – Virginia Mercury – 1/19/22
A budget amendment is laying down the tracks for a Shenandoah Valley rail trail
- – Virginia Mercury – 10/19/20
Work started on new Brush Mountain trail project
- – The Roanoke Times – 7/20/20
Hundreds Celebrate Fourth Annual “Hands Across the Appalachian Trail”
- – Blue Virginia – 9/29/19
FERC Dems Make Climate Change Case In House Hearing
- – Law360 – 6/12/19
‘If I were Dominion I’d be panicked:’ Federal court vacates another Atlantic Coast Pipeline permit
- – Virginia Mercury – 12/13/18
MVP Cleared to Resume Construction at WV Trail Crossing Following Court Order
- – Natural Gas Intelligence – 10/25/18
Hands Across the Appalachian Trail to be Held September 22
The third Annual “Hands Across the Appalachian Trail” has been announced for Saturday, September 22, from 10 am to noon at the Humpback Rocks Visitor Center, located at Milepost 5.8 on the Blue Ridge Parkway. The event is designed to highlight the necessity of protecting the Appalachian Trail from the unwanted onslaught of natural gas pipelines.