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Links to Other Environmental Organizations

For your convenience we have collected here a list of other environmental web sites that address issues of importance to the Potomac Highlands. Please explore the issue-specific pages on our site, too, as there are other links there as well.

Alliance For A New Transportation Charter is a national group seeking to make transportation serve people, invest in existing neighborhoods and communities, and improve existing transport systems and roads rather than expansion of new highway capacity:

The Appalachian Center For Economy And Environment helps fight legal battles, provides research and promotes policies to benefit sustainable communities in Appalachia. It aims to hold extractive and polluting industries accountable by serving as a government watchdog. It will search for means of clean and responsible economic development, and advocate in Congress, state legislatures and executive agencies for these policies. The Appalachian center wants to get West Virginia and its neighbors on the front-burner of national environmental and economic policy. Our area is important in the same way as the great wildernesses of Alaska, the Rocky Mountains, the Everglades. Contact Margaret Janes, senior policy analyst, 304-897-6048.

Cacapon Institute performs watershed education and monitoring for Cacapon River and Potomac South Branch watersheds. They also have a feature on Corridor H construction runoff problems.

Corridor H Alternatives is the original group that tied up Corridor H with lawsuits and raised public awareness as to the true cost of this billion dollar boondoggle. It now monitors Corridor H proceedings in Tucker and Randolph Counties near Elkins, WV.

Defenders of Wildlife is a national group for saving endangered species and wildlife habitat. Get on their Alert list and help the critters!

Friends of the Allegheny Front is a group of landowners and farmers in Grant and Tucker Counties don't want to see the 3,000 and 4,000 foot mountains of the Allegheny Front, our eastern continental divide, be an energy sacrifice zone-either to stripmined coal or to carelessly built windmills.

Friends of Blackwater watches over Blackwater Canyon.

Friends of the Cacapon River is a nonprofit citizens watershed group based in Great Cacapon, focusing on the lower (northernmost) reaches of the Cacapon through Hampshire and Morgan Counties. Has published a tour map of the Cacapon.

Friends of the Earth is one national environmental group that really helps grassroots citizen fighters. They aren't afraid to deal with how our national oil-wasting policies, including new highway construction, lead to the destruction of the environment and people all over the world.

Green Scissors Campaign has been working with Congress and the Administration since 1994 to end environmentally harmful and wasteful spending.

Groundwater.org is a general information site in Nebraska tells about water. FYI: Over 50% of West Virginians get water from a well.

Land Trust Alliance shows how to protect your own land and restrict future development.

Lightstone Foundation and Community Development Corp.in Moyers, WV, supports sustainable familiy farming, natural resource management and community-based development in the West Virginia and Virginia mountains. It holds training and demonstration programs for sustainable forestry, horse-logging, solar kiln drying, value-added wood processing, restoring streambanks, and growing and marketing organic food. It makes micro-loans to people on welfare to start their own businesses and move toward self sufficiency, and promotes state government policies that will help them.

Morgan County Citizens Coalition adresses transportation, environmental, and planning issues in Morgan County, W.Va.

Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition fight mountaintop removal coal mining and other W.Va. causes.

The Potomac Conservancy: Want to know more about the Potomac watershed, and how to take care of your land and ultimately protect it? Potomac Conservancy has an office now in downtown Winchester, Virginia at 19 West Cork Street Suite 201. Contact Kelly Watkinson, Director of Headwaters Conservation at Watkinson@potomac.org or 540-667-3606. The office has informative pamphlets for landowners and residents about how to live and work alongside rivers and streams, and maintains a network with area groups dealing with nature and environmental issues. The Conservancy works with local land trusts and willing private owners to put conservation easements on land.

Save Our County is Paul Burke's amazing collection of information on planning, sprawl, state environmental laws, based in Jefferson County W.Va. The info is applicable to many other counties as well.

Scenic America: Yes! Good looks matter, they attract business and keep us all happier. Support natural and historical places; fight ugly billboards and sprawl.

Sierra Club is always working to keep our wildlands wild.

Washington DC Regional Network For Livable Communities promotes urban and suburban planning which brings more facilities into each community, improves transit options, and reduces automobile use.

West Virginia Environmental Council is a Charleston, W.Va. based citizens lobby for the environment and support sustainable economic development.

West Virginia Highlands Conservancy watches over the great Monongahela National Forest, Blackwater Canyon, and other wild treasures of our state. This 30 year old group is not afraid of economic dialog.

West Virginia Rivers Coalition is the best source of info on clean water all over our state.  They take on the poultry industry pollution as well as coal mining , floodplain building, and other issues.

The West Virginia Surface Owners' Rights Organization is an organization of mostly small surface land owners in West Virginia. The number of oil and gas well permits has increased from less than 900 a year in the late 1990's to more than 3000 a year in 2006. Landowners rights are limited, and WV SORO wants to educate surface owners about the rights that they do have, to allow surface owners to share the information that they have, and to educate policy makers about the increased rights that surface owners need.

The West Virginia Trails Coalition is a nonprofit group of individuals, trail groups, businesses, agencies, foundations and institutions dedicated to developing local, regional and statewide trails. It is developing a statewide trail plan and helping trail groups with networking, mapping, training and volunteer programs. It stresses the value of trails for health, economic development, education, environment, and alternative transport.

The WV Tributary Strategy Stakeholders Group provides resources for stakeholders engaged in Water and Watershed issues in West Virginia. 

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