3-1-2025 National Parks Traveler: 495 Outdoor Organizations Sign Letter To Congress Demanding Action On Firings

2-17-2025 The Parsons Advocate: What’s Happening, Film Festival Fundraiser

2-11-2025 WBOY News: Honoring Black History: JR Clifford, the first African-American lawyer in West Virginia

1-27-2025 Instagram Backcountry Hunters & Anglers: Public comment on a trail proposal located near the towns of Thomas and Davis in Tucker County, West Virginia

1-7-2025 Blackwater Canyon Becomes Publicly Owned https://parsonsadvocate.com/news/pa-top-stories/headlines/blackwater-canyon-becomes-publicly-owned/

1-1-2025 X (Twitter)/ WOWK 13 News: Following a 25-year campaign, officials with the conservation group Friends of Blackwater have announced that Tucker County's Blackwater Canyon is now under full protection

1-1-2025 WOWK 13/WBOY News: Blackwater Canyon fully protected, conservation group says

12-31-2024 West Virginia Highlands Conservancy: After decades of advocacy, 2,700 acres of Blackwater Canyon now in public ownership

12-31-2024 Eyewitness News WCHS ABC8/ FOX11: U.S. Forest Service acquires 2,700 acres of Blackwater Canyon land

12-30-2024 WV News: West Virginia's Manchin & Capito laud finalization of Blackwater Canyon property purchase

12-26-2024 Country Roads News: Land Gift Expands Public Access to Blackwater River

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

4-16-2024 USA Today: America's 'most endangered rivers' list: Sewage, toxic algae, construction feed the crisis

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

4-16-2024 WBOY: West Virginia’s Blackwater River among most endangered in America

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

4-16-2024 WVNews: Blackwater River in West Virginia listed as one of America's 10 most endangered rivers

4-4-2024 WBOY: Third-largest eastern hemlock in West Virginia being cut down in timber project, Friends of Blackwater says

2-26-2024 Mountain State Sierran: New Federal Protections for Old Growth Trees & New Protections for Salamanders

2-24-2024 MetroNews: Charleston Police conducting internal investigation after traffic stop involving state Transportation Secretary Jimmy Wriston

2-21-2024 FOX Eyewitness News: Internal investigation underway after traffic stop involving W.Va. transportation head

2-21-2024 13News: Charleston police opening internal investigation after WVDOT secretary pulled over

2-21-2024 WSAZ: Head of West Virginia’s Department of Transportation pulled over for ‘driving erratically’

2-19-2024 The Register~Herald: Feds put on books 2nd potential Corridor H route over Backbone Mountain

1-25-2024 WSAZ: WSAZ Investigates WVDOT

1-16-2024 Charleston Gazette: Key DEP water pollution control permit up for renewal, public comment

12-26-2023 Charleston Gazette: Magazines rank Tucker towns among nation's top mountain communities

12-10-2023 Mountain State Sierran: Corridor H “Go North” Campaign Opposes Core Drilling Until Route is Changed

10-18-2023 Parsons Advocate: Local History Celebrated in Davis

10-11-2023 Parsons Advocate: Local Volunteer Group Wins Statewide Watershed Promotion Award

8-14-2023 Courthouse News Service: Environmentalists challenge lead bullet exemption for West Virginia wildlife refuge

7-31-2023 Reuters: U.S. sued over lead ammunition in West Virginia wildlife reserve

4-21-2023 WBOY: Morgantown rally urges protection for trees in Upper Cheat River

4-21-2023 WDTV: West Virginians gather to protest clearcutting in the Monongahela National Forest

4-20-2023 Washington Post: The U.S. has inventoried old-growth forests. Will protection be next?

4-4-2023 The Highlands Voice: Plain as the nose on your face

3-27-2023 Parsons Advocate: Corridor H Letter to the Editor

3-20-2023 The Intermountain: Corridor H petition has 5K signers

2-8-2023 Parsons Advocate: Timbering in the Monongahela Letter to the Editor

2-3-2023 Preston County News: It’s time to stop clear-cutting - the battle for the Mon National Forest

1-26-2023 Charleston Gazette: DOT secretary questioned about late contractor payments, laments Corridor H delays before WV Senate panel

1-7-2023 Creeks to Peaks Podcast: Chip Chase on cross-country skiing in West Virginia

1-4-2023 Mountain State Spotlight: The U.S. Forest Service plans to clear-cut in the Monongahela National Forest

1-4-2023 Coal Valley News: STREAM Act touted by WV watershed restoration groups as pivotal for acid mine drainage treatment signed into law

12-23-2022 The News-Item: Bill to clean up water pollution from abandoned mines passes Congress

12-15-2022 WBOY: Davis to Parsons Corridor H comment period extended

11-23-2022 Parsons Advocate: Corridor H “Go North” fundraiser a success

11-18-2022 WBOY: Concerns voiced about Corridor H route

11-15-2022 MetroNews: Logging debate over Upper Cheat River project heats up

11-15-2022 Public News Service: West Virginia Groups Rally to Protect Old-Growth Trees

11-15-2022 Mountain State Spotlight: As Corridor H nears completion, residents fight state highway officials to route it around their towns

11-15-2022 The Intermountain: Timber Controversy Protesters met by counter-protesters in Elkins

11-14-2022 MetroNews: Rally held in Elkins to protect trees within Monongahela National Forest

10-20-2022 Cumberland Times: Economic benefits of tourism featured at ARC workshop

10-9-2022 Washington Post: West Virginians fear a road meant to help their towns could destroy them