Logging in the Blackwater Canyon Halted!!!!!!

Quick action by Friends of Blackwater and the Sierra Club has shut down an illegal logging operation. AWP was in violation of a settlement agreement and had no permit to log in this endangered species habitat. Thanks to the member who alerted us to the logging activity. We are watching to make sure activities don't resume Stay tuned for more information.

Click Here To View a Map of the Area to be Logged!

Click Here To Read: Environmental Groups Cry Foul Over Logging

60 Day Notice of Intent to Sue Filed in ESA VIolations Related to Mt. Storm

Friends of Blackwater along with several other groups has filed a 60-day notice of intent to sue against NedPower over potential Endangered Species Violations related to the Indiana Bat, the West Virginia Northern Flying Squirrel, and the Virginia Big-Eared Bat at their Mount Storm project site!!

Click here to read the press release.

Click here to read the 60-day notice

Click here for more information about wind projects.

For more information about bats and other endangered species in the highlands click here.

 

  

GINNY TO BE DELISTED??

FOB VOWS TO FIGHT BOGUS SCIENCE!

On Tuesday August 26, 2008 the US Fish and Wildlife Service issued its final decision regarding the removal of Endangered Species Act Protections from the West Virginia Northern Flying Squirrel. The final decision appeared in the federal register on that day though the media and some groups were notified on Monday August 25, 2008.

Friends of Blackwater vows to fight this decision based on bogus science. We will take every necessary legal action to prevent this from happening.

Ginny we've got your back!

Click here to read the Rule as it appeared in the Federal Register.

Click here to read the News Release issued by USFWS

Click here to read the Press Release issued by FOB.

Click here the Press Release issued by the Center for Biological Diversity.

Click here to read Ken Ward's Article that appeared in the Charleston Gazette on 08/26/2008 .

Click here for the article from the Charleston Gazette on 08/25/2008.

Click here for the article from the Charleston Daily-Mail on 08/25/2008.

 
 

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