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