Fighting to Protect the Highlands
The First Forty Years of the West Virginia Highlands Conservancy
by David P. Elkinton

• In Fighting to Protect the Highlands, author Dave Elkinton tells of stifling a hydroelectric project in the beautiful Canaan Valley, protecting Otter Creek from road construction, and taking a coal company to court to prevent injurious road construction for coal sampling. The book describes in detail many of the Conservancy’s environmental initiatives, including efforts to protect the Cranberry Backcountry and Shavers Fork, the campaign for additional wilderness preservation, the current battle over windfarm development, even a thrilling account of the first running of the Gauley River, the Mecca of West Virginia whitewater.

• The history of the Conservancy has been one of frustrating uphill battles and tireless grassroots campaigning; and even today, southern West Virginia is being devastated by mountaintop removal. The members of the Conservancy share skills of research, optimism, and dogged dedication that will surely inspire the reader and reassert the power of grassroots democracy.

• Fighting to Protect the Highlands has been nominated for the 2008 Robert F. Kennedy Book Award.

• ISBN: 978-0-926487-33-7
  • xxvi plus 518 pages, 9 inches x 6 inches, paperbound
  • $24.95 plus shipping, per copy
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