CANAAN VALLEY HOUSE PARTY

A House Party Fundraiser will be held in Canaan Valley at the home of Steve White on Friday July 10, 2009 from 7:30 until 10:00 PM. There will be music, food and an auction. For more information please click on the button below.

Coalition Challenges Ginny's Delisting!

60 Day Notice Filed April First!

For Immediate Release

April 1, 2009

Contact:
Christopher Lancette, The Wilderness Society (202) 429-2692
Judy Rodd, Friends of Blackwater, (304) 345-7663

Flying squirrel: Bush’s prank still not funny
Environmental groups call on Obama to restore protection for endangered species

WASHINGTON – George Bush has been out of office for more than two months on this April Fool’s Day – but the West Virginia northern flying squirrel certainly isn’t laughing at the pranks the former president pulled. His administration removed the charismatic squirrel from the endangered species list last August, leaving the loveable rodent hanging in, well, mid air.

Click here to read the Press Release in its entirety..

Click here to read the 60-day Notice.

Click here for attachments.

Click here for videos of Flying Squirrels

Click here to watch Judy Rodd's Congressional Testimony.

For additional information about the WV Northern Flying Squirrel please click here or visit www.saveoursquirrel.org

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.

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 upcoming March 18,2009 Lease Auction for this Parcel in the Seneca Rocks-Spruce Knob NRA. A parcel with underlying karst,that could be home to bats already threatened with white-nose syndrome andbisectedby 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.