FOB In the News!

FOB In the News!

12-12-2024 Greenwire: Feds agree to revisit lead ammo ban at wildlife refuge

12-12-2024 Earth Justice: Conservation Groups Reach Settlement Over Lead Ammunition in West Virginia Wildlife Refuge

12-6-2024 WV.GOV DEP: WVDEP’s Stream Partners Program awards nearly $92,000 in grant funding to 20 watershed groups for water quality projects

12-3-2024 Senator Joe Manchin: Manchin Delivers Final Floor Speech

10-30-2024 The Inter-Mountain: 15 Appalachian Forest Grants announced

10-26-2024 The Exponent Telegram: 'Early Mining Voices' on display at Blackwater Falls State Park (West Virginia) Nov. 2

10-16-2024 The West Virginia Daily News: National Heritage Area Awards Grants to Local Organizations

10-8-2024 The Parson’s Advocate: Free Program at Blackwater Falls November 2 Honors Early Coal Miners

10-2-2024 The Mountain State Spotlight: Tourism already isn’t enough for Tucker County to thrive. Climate change could make life harder

10-1-2024 The Parson’s Advocate: Corridor H - Go North Campaign

8-30-2024 United Way of Monongalia and Preston Counties: Friends of Blackwater Volunteer MPC

8-22-2024 The Register-Herald: Land sale a milestone for Friends of Blackwater

8-22-2024 Charleston Gazette: Monongahela Forest officials to buy 2,700 acres of lumber company’s Tucker County land

8-21-2024 Metro News: Land sale a milestone for Friends of Blackwater

8-20-2024 Newswires: Manchin Applauds Forest Service Agreement to Purchase Blackwater Canyon Property

8-6-2024 Parsons Advocate: Landslide Damages Historic Landmark on Blackwater Canyon Trail

8-6-2024 Parsons Advocate: Forest Service Addresses Blackwater Canyon Landslide

7-26-2024 WDTV: 32 Business Owners in Thomas and Davis team up to stop the state’s current plan for Corridor H

4-18-2024 WDTV: Blackwater River ‘Endangered’ by Corridor H Construction

10-18-23 Parsons Advocate: Local History Celebrated in Davis

10-11-23 Parsons Advocate: Local Volunteer Group Wins Statewide Watershed Promotion Award

8-14-23 Courthouse News Service: Environmentalists challenge lead bullet exemption for West Virginia wildlife refuge

7-31-23 Reuters: U.S. sued over lead ammunition in West Virginia wildlife reserve

4-21-23 WBOY: Morgantown rally urges protection for trees in Upper Cheat River

4-21-23 WDTV: West Virginians gather to protest clearcutting in the Monongahela National Forest

4-20-21 Washington Post: U.S. has inventoried old-growth forests. Will protection be next?

4-4-23 The Highlands Voice: Plain as the nose on your face

3-27-23 Parsons Advocate: Corridor H Letter to the Editor

3-20-23 The Intermountain: Corridor H petition has 5K signers

2-8-23 Parsons Advocate: Timbering in the Monongahela Letter to the Editor

2-3-23 Preston County News: It’s time to stop clear-cutting - the battle for the Mon National Forest

1-26-23 Charleston Gazette: DOT secretary questioned about late contractor payments, laments Corridor H delays before WV Senate panel

1-7-23 Creeks to Peaks Podcast: Chip Chase on cross-country skiing in West Virginia

1-4-23 Mountain State Spotlight: The U.S. Forest Service plans to clear-cut in the Monongahela National Forest

1-4-23 Coal Valley News: STREAM Act touted by WV watershed restoration groups as pivotal for acid mine drainage treatment signed into law

12-23-22 The News-Item: Bill to clean up water pollution from abandoned mines passes Congress

12-15-22 WBOY: Davis to Parsons Corridor H comment period extended

11-23-22 Parsons Advocate: Corridor H “Go North” fundraiser a success

11-18-22 WBOY: Concerns voiced about Corridor H route

11-15-22 MetroNews: Logging debate over Upper Cheat River project heats up

11-15-22 Public News Service: West Virginia Groups Rally to Protect Old-Growth Trees

11-15-22 Mountain State Spotlight: As Corridor H nears completion, residents fight state highway officials to route it around their towns

11-15-22 The Intermountain: Timber Controversy Protesters met by counter-protesters in Elkins

11-14-22 MetroNews: Rally held in Elkins to protect trees within Monongahela National Forest

10-20-22 Cumberland Times: Economic benefits of tourism featured at ARC workshop

10-9-22 Washington Post: West Virginians fear a road meant to help their towns could destroy them

4-18-24 WDTV: Blackwater River 'Endangered' by Corridor H Construction

4-16-24 USA Today: America's 'most endangered rivers' list: Sewage, toxic algae, construction feed the crisis

4-16-24 American Rivers: BLACKWATER RIVER NAMED AMONG AMERICA’S MOST ENDANGERED RIVERS® OF 2024

4-16-24 WBOY: West Virginia’s Blackwater River among most endangered in America

4-16-24 MetroNews: Blackwater River included on America’s Most Endangered Rivers list for 2024

4-16-24 WVNews: Blackwater River in West Virginia listed as one of America's 10 most endangered rivers

4-4-24 WBOY: Third-largest eastern hemlock in West Virginia being cut down in timber project, Friends of Blackwater says

2-26-24 Mountain State Sierran: New Federal Protections for Old Growth Trees & New Protections for Salamanders

2-24-24 MetroNews: Charleston Police conducting internal investigation after traffic stop involving state Transportation Secretary Jimmy Wriston

2-21-24 FOX Eyewitness News: Internal investigation underway after traffic stop involving W.Va. transportation head

2-21-24 13News: Charleston police opening internal investigation after WVDOT secretary pulled over

2-21-24 WSAZ: Head of West Virginia’s Department of Transportation pulled over for ‘driving erratically’

2-19-24 The Register~Herald: Feds put on books 2nd potential Corridor H route over Backbone Mountain

1-25-24 WSAZ: WSAZ Investigates WVDOT

1-16-24 Charleston Gazette: Key DEP water pollution control permit up for renewal, public comment

12-26-23 Charleston Gazette: Magazines rank Tucker towns among nation's top mountain communities

12-10-23 Mountain State Sierran: Corridor H “Go North” Campaign Opposes Core Drilling Until Route is Changed

10-18-23 Parsons Advocate: Local History Celebrated in Davis

10-11-23 Parsons Advocate: Local Volunteer Group Wins Statewide Watershed Promotion Award

8-14-23 Courthouse News Service: Environmentalists challenge lead bullet exemption for West Virginia wildlife refuge

7-31-23 Reuters: U.S. sued over lead ammunition in West Virginia wildlife reserve

4-21-23 WBOY: Morgantown rally urges protection for trees in Upper Cheat River

4-21-23 WDTV: West Virginians gather to protest clearcutting in the Monongahela National Forest

4-20-21 Washington Post: U.S. has inventoried old-growth forests. Will protection be next?

4-4-23 The Highlands Voice: Plain as the nose on your face