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BREAKING NEWS! BATS WIN LAWSUIT! Click here for more information!

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SOS! Save Our Squirrel!

Send a message to Washington, D.C.in support of Ginny by clicking here!

 

 

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ADOPT A NORTHERN FLYING SQUIRREL!


Help Save “Ginny’s” Babies!

By adopting one of Ginny's babies you will be helping to us advocate for this rare species and litigate to bring back full federal protection, under the Endangered Species Act, for the West Virginia Northern Flying Squirrel. These adoption packets make great Christmas gifts for kids young or old! Click the button below to adopt your WV Northern Flying Squirrel baby now!

WE SAID WE WOULD!

Last Stand Made for Endangered West Virginia Northern Flying Squirrel


Coalition Files Suit to Restore Protections Stripped Away from “Ginny” by Bush

A coalition of conservation groups, including the Friends of Blackwater, Center for Biological Diversity, Southern Appalachian Forest Coalition, The Wilderness Society, and Wild South, filed suit on November 12, 2009 in federal court in Washington, D.C., seeking to overturn a Bush-administration decision stripping the West Virginia northern flying squirrel of protection under the Endangered Species Act.

Click here to read the Press Release.

Click here to read the Associated Press Coverage.

Click here to read the Complaint Filed in Federal Court.

For additional information about the WV Northern Flying Squirrel and efforts to have protections restored please click here or visit www.saveoursquirrel.org

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GAS DRILLING AT CHIEF LOGANSTATE PARK?!?!

West Virginian's take great pride in our State Parks -- they are the crown jewels of our public lands!

But now there is a new threat to our beautiful State Parks. The largest gas well driller in the nation wants to drill gas wells and develop new gas fields with their roads, pipelines, waste lagoons, and more --- right in one of our treasured State Parks. Chief Logan State Park is the latest in the list of public lands imperiled by gas drilling.

West Virginians and visitors come to Chief Logan and our other state parks to hike, picnic, swim, play, meet friends and family, and enjoy the beautiful natural surroundings. Gas development in our State Parks would damage all the values we hold dear.

Please join us in asking Governor Manchin to use all available means to prevent this impending tragedy by clicking here to sign our petition.

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Our Potomac Boat Club Fundraising party was a tremendous success! To see more about this party click here.

To see pictures of our Canaan Valley FUNdraising event click here

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REQUEST FOR EXTENSION DENIED; FOB SUBMITS COMMENTS REGARDING BERRY ENERGY'S LAND APPLICATION OF WASTE

CLICK HERE TO READ OUR COMMENT LETTER

CLICK HERE TO READ DECISION MEMO

CLICK HERE TO READ THE USFS RESPONSE TO COMMENTS

CLICK HERE TO READ THE BIOLOGICAL EVALUATION.

CLICK HERE TO SEE THE MAP OF THE AREA FOR LAND APPLICATION.

For more information about Berry Energy's original land application and the outcome please click here.

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Seneca Rocks

SENECA ROCKS PROTECTED!

The Bureau for Land Management has removed the Seneca Rocks - Spruce Knob NRA parcel from the auction block!

Click here to read the notice of changes to the auction.

Click here to read the joint press release issued by FOB, the Center for Biological Diversity and The Wilderness Society regarding the deletion of this parcel from the auction list.

Click here to read the Associated Press Article that appeared in the Chicago Tribune on Friday March 13, 2009.

Little Brown Bat hibernating in West Virginia cave with white fungal ring around its muzzle, a symptom of white-nose syndrome. © 2009 by Craig W. Stihler, Ph.D., Proposed oil and gas leasing on the Monongahela National Forest is threatening valuable recreation areas and pristine habitat for our imperiled bats and native brook trout. Click here to read the press release detailing the opposition to such actions.

Click here to read the letter submitted in protest of the March 18,2009 Lease Auction for this Parcel in the Seneca Rocks-Spruce Knob NRA. A parcel with underlying karst,that could be home tBrook Trouto bats already threatened with white-nose syndrome, and bisected by Brushy Run, one of WV's few remaining pristine native trout streams.

CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT INDIANA BATS AND VA. BIG EARED BATS AND WHITE-NOSE SYNDROME.

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Save Blackwater Canyon! Friends of Blackwater’s mission is to protect the Blackwater Canyon and Blackwater River region, a stunningly beautiful area of the Appalachian Allegheny Highlands -- and to promote economic development that maximizes biodiversity and outdoor recreational opportunities.  To advance this mission, Friends of Blackwater has carried out campaigns to defend and enforce environmental and community protection laws and values.  They include protecting the public Blackwater Canyon Trail in the Monongahela National Forest, protecting Ginny the endangered flying squirrel, cleaning up mining pollution in the North Fork of the Blackwater River, protecting sensitive areas of the Monongahela National Forest from gas drilling, protecting the Allegheny Front from badly sited industrial wind turbines and moving private land in the Blackwater Canyon into public ownership. The Friends of Blackwater also runs the JR Clifford Project which teaches folks about the life and legacy of West Virginia’s first African American lawyer whose famous civil rights case came from the Blackwater Canyon.

 

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FRIENDS OF BLACKWATER
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