A multiformat ethnographic field documentation collection of sound recordings, still photos, and manuscripts about traditional uses of the mountains in Southern West Virginia's Big Coal River Valley. This presentation is based on the Coal River Folklife Collection of the Library of Congress American Folklife Center. Interpretive texts outline the social, historical, economic, environmental, ...

The Highlands Conservancy is the state's leading environmental advocacyorganization. The WVHC has been instrumental in creation of the MonongahelaNational Forest Wilderness areas and in preventing the destruction of CanaanValley. Current concerns include mountantop removal mining and the preservation of Blackwater Canyon ...