Friends of Blackwater Canyon

March 2005 501 Elizabeth St.reet Room 3, Charleston, WV 25311 • 304-345-7663 • www.saveblackwater.org • [email protected] Crocus Blooms: Legislature To Unsound Claims Refuted Consider National Park Resolution New Report Shows Economic Benefits of National Park Every year, like clockwork, we encounter Region — including the early signs of Spring – the tiny, colorful the Blackwater Canyon blossoms of crocuses, the delicate catkins of area! SenateSenateSenate If you have been around Tucker the hazel nut, and the exotic song of the ConcurrentConcurrentConcurrent County lately, you may have seen claims woodcocks Resolution 38 is also in print that the public lands in the region This year, there’s another “sign of Spring” co-sponsored by are holding back economic development — the West Senators McCabe, and a good local economy. These claims Virginia Bowman, Hunter, also charge that looking to public-land- Legislature, which Unger, Bailey, White, based tourism, recreation, and retirement opened its 2005 and Foster. and second-home industries for local taxes session in early Here is some of the great language and jobs is unwise and unsound. February. from the resolution: What’s the story on these accusations? For lovers of WHEREAS, the High Allegheny Region Are these claims grounded in fact? Are the Blackwater of the State of West Virginia, comprising they honest mistakes? Or are they Canyon, 2005’s portions of the Monongahela National misleading propaganda, put out by anti- Senator John Yoder West Virginia Forest, Blackwater Falls State Park, Seneca public lands extremists on behalf of big Legislative session Rocks, portions of Canaan Valley, the companies who want to keep Tucker includes one very Blackwater Canyon area, and the environs, County mired in an extractive-industry positive development — is an exceptional and important natural, past? a resolution authored by cultural, economic, and recreational The answers to these important Senator John Yoder of resource in the State; and questions can be found in a new report the Eastern Panhandle, WHEREAS, the High Allegheny Region issued by Friends of Blackwater, “The calling for a study of a of West Virginia is a highly significant Economic Impact of the Proposed High new National Park for resource in West Virginia, and has Allegheny National Park in West Virginia.” the High Allegheny substantial exceptional natural areas and The Report includes citations to a number Senator Brooks McCabe habitats, included substantial areas of of economic studies, and lots of statistics. protected public land that are under a The Report shows that a new National In This Issue: diversity of management, and these Park in the High Allegheny Region will Director’s Update 2 important areas and lands are and will be a Canyon Kids Club 2 actually bolster county coffers and long-term asset to the people of the nation Bald Eagles Spotted 2 strengthen the local economy — by FOB Board Highlight Larry Groce 3 and the State of West Virginia... Resolved by providing more money from federal The Last Forest Project 3 the Legislature of West Virginia: That the landholders, creating new jobs for local Clean Potomac Begins at North Fork 4 Joint Committee on Government and residents, helping local tourism-related Williams and Clifford Shine Again 4 Finance is hereby requested to study the businesses, and increasing property values Cheat Canyon Protection Needed 5 desirability and feasibility of a High in existing private lands. Abandoned Mine Land Funds at Risk 5 Allegheny National Park;... In short, High Allegheny National Park Bat Mortality and Wind Power 5 will not only solidify the 2004 Membership 6,7 Urgent - Act Now! area’s reputation as the Photo Contest 8 If you are a West Virginia resident, help get this most beautiful region in Ski Club Finds Snow in Blackwater 9 resolution passed by calling your Senator at 357-7800 or the Mid-Atlantic, but will In Memory 10 877-565-3447 to tell them you support Senate Concurrent In Honor of Paul Teter 10 make it an economically Resolution 38 to study a new High Allegheny National Park. John Smith’s Signs of Spring 11 prosperous one as well. Congratulations, Judy 11 All of us who love Blackwater (including non-West You can have a copy of Welcome Jennifer Huighes 11 Virginia residents) should call Senator John Yoder (at the the Report by e-mailing In Honor of Helaine Rotgin 11 above number) and leave a thank-you message! He’s our Friends of Blackwater at Amelia’s Restaurant at Windwood 12 hero! Go to our website for the full text of Senate Resolution [email protected], In-kind Contributors 12 38 and list of sponsoring Senators. www.saveblackwater.org or call 1-877-WVA-LAND. Director’s Update Great News for Bird Watchers: Bald Eagles igns of Spring Spotted at Canaan all around us give us hope for change Keeping track of In February, Ken, Amy, Erin and Julie S in the new year. We hope for a rebirth of all these projects Dzaak got the surprise of their life on their love for the land. We hope for and agencies, and drive back home after a day of hiking. stewardship and the protection of pressuring officials to keep the Blackwater On Camp 70 Road toward Davis at “the commons” and God’s Canyon from being degraded, is a tall around 3:00 p.m., perched in a tree were Creation. It’s often hard to keep order. We need your help to get the work two adult and two juvenile bald eagles! our spirits up — to challenge the done. Signs of Spring give us renewed With excellent views for about 15 minutes, forces of unrestrained greed and hope, and we know that it is possible to the Dzaaks saw the juveniles in what was commercialism. But your wonderful prevail. We are honored by your support. probably their first year of flight soaring notes and letters inspire us anew just above their heads. The Dzaaks every day. It’s good to be part referred to this event as “A definite WOW of a network of hope and moment!” Special thanks to Cynthia Ellis love. Please keep writing and for passing this information on. e-mailing us. Our Spring Newsletter has some exciting news:

Senator John Yoder has introduced a Resolution calling for a study of a National Park in the West Virginia Highlands. Read Join Canyon Kids Club the Newsletter’s front page story to see how you can help. and enter contest! We recently met with federal and state highway officials about the hiking/ biking trail through Blackwater Canyon. We are pleased with their enthusiasm for this project. We discussed the importance of using Fish and Wildlife Service and Forest Service studies. We have told these It’s almost Earth membership card and a officials that bulldozing the current Trail to Day—A time when Blackwater Ecology Booklet. As a create an industrial roadway for motorized children are learning new card carrying Canyon Kids Club vehicles — for example, logging trucks or things about the environment. member, your child or grandchild will be “tour buses” — would be illegal under Earth Day is a perfect time for your child eligible for gifts and prizes while learning several federal laws. It would also severely or grandchild to learn about the natural about the unique ecology of the Red damage the Trail’s historic stone bridges world and West Virginia’s rich natural Spruce Forest in the Blackwater Canyon. and the natural habitat of many rare history. Our Canyon Kids Club website will feature species. And such a cockamamie scheme Enroll your child or grandchild in the activity pages they can print from their would utterly destroy the scenic, intimate Friends of Blackwater Canyon Kids Club computer. And they will develop new charm and the long-term value of the before April 22 and he or she will be friendships with Ginny the Flying Squirrel, current hiking/biking pathway. Most entered in the Kids Club Earth Day Sally the Salamander, Billy the Brook Trout, importantly, we made it clear at this Drawing!! Everyone who joins the Indy the Indiana Bat, and other members meeting that NO ONE who loves the Canyon Kids Club will receive a of the Blackwater critter family. Canyon wants the scenic heart of the Blackwater Canyon or the Trail to be Attention parents and grandparents! owned or used for private, for-profit Mail to: FOB Canyon Kids Club, 501 Elizabeth Street, Charleston WV 25311 timber/condominium purposes. Our motivation, purpose, and goal is and Prize drawing deadline is April 22, 2005 always will be public ownership of the entire Canyon — including the Canyon Trail — with fair compensation for private Child’s Name ______landowners. We are preparing ads and brochures Address______to refute and counter the Tucker County Development Authority’s petition asking City______State______Zip ______for no more public land in Tucker County. These materials explain the economic importance of public land to funding local (School) ______(Birthdate) ______schools and roads. 2 Judy Rodd, President Paul Hill, Vice President Board Highlight: Larry Groce Jeannie Dalporto, Secretary When Larry Groce first visited West produced a three-hour audio version of Linda Cooper, Treasurer Virginia, it was to administer an arts five short stories written by Louise’s father, Sandy Fisher program. That was 1972, and he never G.D. MacNeill, in his book, ”The Last

Board of Directors Forest: Tales of the Allegheny Woods.” Sheila McEntee left. He fell in love with the State’s gentle, rolling landscapes and the freedom and Larry was born in , and joy of camping within them. became interested in music in Annie Dillard In coming to know his new home, he elementary school. Larry attended Larry Groce soon discovered the perils it faced. Principia College on the bluffs of the Mississippi River in southern Illinois and Jason Halbert Larry’s first brush with land preservation began in 1990 when he opposed a during the David Hammer, Esq. mega-landfill project in Barbour County. summers Alan Karlin, Esq. By forcing a referendum, Larry and a core he Patrick McGinley, Esq. group of environmental activists saved traveled around Deborah McHenry, Esq. Barbour County and much of the State from becoming a dumping ground. America Rafe Pomerance As an established recording artist, Larry and Advisory Board Joe Rieffenberger found other niches for preserving West Europe J. Lawrence Smith Virginia’s rich mountainous heritage playing wherever Steve White, Esq. through his role as host and artistic director for West Virginia Public Radio’s he could: Christopher Wood . Larry has been with the coffeehouse show since its beginning in 1983. clubs in Judy Rodd, Director In 1991 Larry produced, directed and Boston, private John Brown composed music for a radio version of ”Gauley Mountain”, a collection of 81 parties in LA, nightclubs in Athens, the Staff Jennifer Hughes historical poems by the late WV Poet streets of Pisa. Valerie Little Laureate Louise McNeill. In 2003 he After college he moved to New York, where he landed a recording contract with RCA’s Daybreak Records, and headed to Los Angeles. Since then, Larry THE LAST FOREST: has made twenty more albums and scores of singles, extended plays and collections TALES OF THE ALLEGHENY WOODS for Daybreak, Warner-Curb, Disney and Three one-hour programs based on the short stories by G. D. McNeill independent labels. They have ranged in This collection of throughout human style from Americana to gospel to short stories, written in history and will children’s music. His Disney recordings the late 1930s, takes us resonate with people have earned him a gold album and five back more than a across a nation ever platinum albums and a Grammy century ago, to the more pressed for open nomination. In all, 36 of his songs have virgin forest. One space. Five of the tales been included on . hundred years ago the are presented in this Larry has toured in almost every state as traditional lifestyle of three-part radio series. well as Canada, Mexico, Venezuela, the Allegheny The tales include: The France, Belgium, England, Italy, Greece Mountains was utterly First Camp Fire, The and Russia. devastated by a mighty Mystery at Gauley In 2000, Friends of Blackwater board wave of timbering, a Marsh, The Duke of member Sandy Fisher invited Larry to boom and bust Possum Ridge, The be an advisory board member. He experience which left Battle at the Whirpool, graciously accepted, because he believes environmental and The Last Campfire. that Blackwater Canyon—just like Gauley devastation, economic They were adapted for Mountain and the Allegheny and social dislocation radio by Michael Woods—must be preserved for future in its wake. The Last Frasher and generations to learn about and enjoy. Forest captures a poignant moment in engineered by Francis Fisher, husband of Larry is married to Sandra Armstrong, West Virginia history when people were FOB board member, Sandy Fisher. To who is principal viola in The West becoming aware that their lives had order, send your request and $20.00 to: Virginia Symphony and The Montclaire forever changed. The themes of these Pocahontas Communication Cooperative, String Quartet. They have a daughter stories—the meaning of wilderness and Route 1 Box 138, Dunmoore WV 24934, named Virginia and they are expecting the uses of nature—are a universal thread or fax order to 304-799-7444 another child in August. Virginia is hoping for a sister. 3 Clifford Honored, Program Cleaning of Potomac River must begin in the Set for Parsons in April North Fork of the Blackwater in Thomas

A network of 100-year-old abandoned A closer look at the and collapsed coal mining tunnels Coketon/Kempton Mine honeycomb the hills to the north and east of the Blackwater Canyon. This Pool Problem underground network of rubble-filled tunnels, now saturated with groundwater, help achieve this consensus, over the past is known as the “Kempton/Coketon Mine two years the North Fork Project has held Pool.” Dissolved minerals and acidity from educational workshops in the schools and the Kempton/Coketon Mine Pool affects in the community; done research and local springs, wells, streams, and rivers – publish reports on water quality in the including the North Fork of the Blackwater North Fork Watershed; organized tours of River below Thomas and the Potomac the North Fork pollution sites with the help River at Kepmpton. Ongoing mine pool of the West Virginia DEP; written articles Admirers and relatives of J. R. Clifford pose subsidence also injures dwellings, roads, for the local paper; created a website with Supreme Court Justice Larry Starcher and farmland. (www.northforkwatershed.org); and in front of a photograph of J. R. Clifford Friends of Blackwater has been developed a local advisory board. We are and a plaque honoring him that now hang working, through our North Fork planning messages for the media on this at WVU’s College of Law Watershed Project, to assess this mine issue, and to train young local OSM/Vista pool problem and to work for its volunteers. We are also planning to bring remediation. Near-term remediation together citizens, political and community West Virginia University’s College of efforts and longer-term diversion leaders, regulators, and scientists to work Law unveiled a plaque in February to programs can restore this watershed to on solutions. Seminars and strategic honor the life and work of West Virginia’s full health. Remediation strategies include planning sessions will facilitate partnerships first African-American lawyer, J.R. Clifford, drainage and groundwater diversion; in between citizens and Maryland and West Clifford lived from 1848 to 1933 and was situ groundwater treatment; mine Virginia state regulators, to pool raised in Williamsport (once Virginia, now West Virginia) in Hardy County. Friends of Blackwater’s interest in J. R. Clifford heightened when they learned of an 1898 landmark civil rights case that arose in the Blackwater Canyon town of Coketon. Clifford argued in Williams v. Tucker County Board of Education that Tucker County African-American teacher Carrie Williams was entitled to teach children of color and earn wages for the same amount of days per year as other teachers. Clifford won the case in Tucker County and again in Charleston at the Supreme Court. A re-enactment of this case will take place at the Tucker County Courthouse in Parsons on Monday, April 11, 2005 at 7:00 p.m.p.m.7:00 Ilene Evans, from Thomas, WV, will Emily Samargo, former Vista Volunteer and employee of Friends of Blackwater play the role of Carrie Williams, and conducts water sampling tests on North Fork of Blackwater River Joseph Bundy will play the role of Clifford, who traveled through the backfilling with alkaline grout, passive knowledge, experience and funds to tackle Blackwater Canyon in 1894 to represent stream treatment; constructed wetlands; these cross-border groundwater pollution Carrie Williams. anoxic limestone drains; injection of problems.Friends of Blackwater and our This is a free, family-friendly event with ammonia gas into collection ponds; and North Fork Watershed Project are working good music. So come out. Refreshments streambed grouting. to enhance West Virginia’s “Crown Jewel” will be provided by Visiting Homemakers Abandoned Mine Land funding should – the Blackwater Canyon and environs! and Friends of Blackwater. be available for this work, if a political Your support is making this work possible. For information call Mimi Kibler at consensus on the issue is developed. To Visit www.saveblackwater.org. 304-478-3410 or Friends of Blackwater at 4 304-345-7663. Dolly Sods Campaign Keep Dolly Sods Wild Update Mission Statement Merlin Tuttle, President, Bat Conservation Friends of Blackwater is working International, Speaks Out on Bat Deaths to protect the scenic and heritage (Excerpted from Bat Conservation viewsheds, special habitats and and Wind Turbines International memo; January 4, 2005) endangered species of the West Virginia Highlands. To that end, we Wind power offers a remarkable source radius of the Mountaineer, West Virginia are working at the state and federal of renewable, pollution-free energy. and Meyersdale, Pennsylvania sites where However, it also can be extremely level to create enforcable siting large numbers of bats are already being hazardous to bats. In the eastern U. S., criteria for the wind industry. killed. Based on an extremely conservative only three wind farms on wooded ridge estimate of 48 bats per turbine per year tops have been investigated for bat kills killed at Mountaineer (Kerns and Kerlinger, Abandoned Mine Land Funds (in Pennsylvania, Tennessee and West 2003), completion of already proposed at Risk, Urgent Action Needed Virginia), but all have killed alarming turbines in just this one small area could numbers. Because bats are essential to the kill close to 29,000 bats annually. My best Please call your Congressional balance of nature and human economies, personal estimate is closer to double this Representatives before June 30, 2005 and they are already in decline and have number (Tuttle, 2004). Clearly, further tell them to reauthorize the Abandoned exceptionally low reproductive rates, we construction of wind farms on wooded Mine Land Funds. If the program is not are deeply concerned. ridge tops, prior to finding solutions to reauthorized, funding for the Appalachian There is a rapidly growing body of prevent or minimize bat kills, poses Clean Streams Initiative (ACSI) will be lost, evidence indicating that bat fatalities at potentially devastating cumulative threats which includes cost-share grants to local wind power facilities are considerably to bats and to ecosystems that rely on watershed groups. Miles of streams may higher than previously estimated. We them. Prudence suggests great caution never be cleaned of acid mine drainage, anticipate that, unless solutions are soon until solutions are found. Failure to act including the North Fork of the Blackwater developed, high kill rates can be expected immediately to conduct research needed River. ASCI provides challenge grants to wherever wind power plants are built on to protect bats and find solutions for remediation efforts, through the Office of wooded ridges. More than 600 turbines industry could prove extremely costly for Surface Mining. To take action, go to have already been proposed for all concerned. For a full report, got to www.easterncoal.org. construction at such sites within a 70-mile batcon.org/wind/2004progressreport.pdf. Help Protect the Cheat River Canyon Degradation Continues, Log Roads Visible

The wild and scenic Cheat River and Boaters on the Cheat have witnessed The Cheat 3-tooth, Cheat Canyon continues to be degraded. road construction and logging along the flat- spired, land Logging is ongoing in the Beech Run area Allegheny Hiking Trail, a cross-state trail snail found in the with the land stripped of trees and raw that has been in continuous public use Cheat Canyon earth exposed and eroding. since 1970. Flyovers confirm a network of exists nowhere In 2003, Allegheny Wood Products haul and skid roads near Even Nastier else in the world (AWP) — the same company that in 1997 rapids and Beech River. AWP bought bought the remaining private land in the 5,000 acres of the Canyon in May of 2003. expenses for a lawsuit — to see that This conduct by AWP is a major test of sensitive areas in the heart of the Cheat the Endangered Species Act in West Canyon are protected. Virginia. Illegal logging in the Cheat Please donate NOW to support this Canyon cannot be tolerated — and the important cause. The Cheat River is where unique Cheat Canyon ecology must be West Virginia’s whitewater industry got its protected for future generations. start — and it is a touchstone for wildwater A coalition of conservation groups has enthusiasts world wide. committed to raise funds NOW to cover Mail donation checks payable to Friends of Blackwater, 501 Elizabeth St., Fawn Charleston, WV 25311 — and put “Cheat Blackwater Canyon — began logging in Canyon” on the memo line, or donate Cheat Canyon, just above the Cheat River, from our website, saveblackwater.org, and in recognized endangered species habitat. put “Cheat Canyon” in the message box. The company is ignoring requests from All donations go to lawsuit expenses, not U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service to conduct for organizational costs. And please go to surveys to protect rare species — including saveblackwater.org and click on the the Cheat snail and the Indiana bat. “Cheat” button for more information on Ruffed Grouse Chick the Cheat Canyon Campaign. 5 LIFETIME MEMBERS Josh & Farley Whetzel Bryan Logan Brent Bailey Majid & Nooshazar Jaraiedi Nathan Anderson Patricia Wilmsen Judge & Mrs. Thomas Lohm Cebern & Thursy Baker Daniel & Maureen Jones Richard Edwards Raymond & Debbie Yackel Suzanne Maben Paul & Helen Baldino Kenneth Kaleida & Donn Jim Humphreys Jim Maddy Robert & Nancy Baldwin Gunther SUSTAINING PATRONS Mary C Massey Sandra & Fred Barkey Tom & Joan Becker Kelsch PORTE CRAYON SOCIETY Fern Abrams & David Sapery Leslie Mead Steve Barnett, MD Jim King & Scott Britton Donna & Carroll Cook Donna Acord Dick & Mary Meeks Brett & Anne Basham Beth Koller Luanne McGovern Dr & Mrs Duane Alexander John Merriam Robert Bastress & Barbara Dave Lambert Rafe & Lenore Pomerance Alliance to Protect Nantucket Marilyn B. Meyers Fleischauer Jim & Judy Lewis Emily Schoenbaum Sound Sally Minard & Walter Jennifer & Scott Bean Robert & Mildred Lynn Eric Tribbey Art Company of Davis Limbaugh Grant & Dee Beauchamp Robert & Joyce Manyik Elizabeth C. Zimmermann Cynthia Ashworth Glen & Linda Morrison Letha & Michael Bialas Jacqueline Mathieu William & Julia Belton Peter Moshein Janis Boury & Michael Frasier Peter E McCumber CROWN JEWEL CLUB Charles & Margaret Biggs Ralph Muoio Charles & Nancy Brabec David & Marge McCutcheon Russell W. Bounds Brent Blackwelder Jim Norton Wilson Bradburn Marjorie McDiarmid Margaret Calwell Peter & Jane Boone Dr. & Mrs. G. Robert Nugent Jim & Pat Carney Warren & Peggy McGraw Canoe Cruisers Association Lee Bowen Erika Pallie & Adam Polinski Rives & Richard Carroll Pamela & Paul Mengel Sally F. 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Taylor Rhonda Koch Carol Headley Sidney & Barbara Tedford SENIOR SUPPORTERS INDIVIDUAL MEMBERS Linda Kolb Diane Hert Charles & Elizabeth C. Douglas Adams Art Abrams Teresa Koon John & Judy Hillman Tewksbury Florence Adams Betty Anne Adams Marion Kostka John E. Holmes Helen F. Thalheimer Glenna Adams Felicia Adams Rene Laventure Dorothy Huffman Adele Thorton Ray & Mona Agee Anthony Allred Jr Lenna Leeson William A. James III Harriet Tucker Marilyn Aikman Ralph & Molly Anderegg Johnathan Love Barbara Johnson Waino Tuominen Clarence Aleshire Martha & Jim Anderson Ric MacDowell Roy C. Johnson Buddy Watkins Alvin & Roberta Allison Zeke Applegate John R Magan Fanny M Johnson Diana Weatherby Hubert Allman Calvert & Ted Armbrecht Alta I. Mainer Frank Kammel Jon & Donna Weems Joanne Amberson Robert Arnold & Glenn Lowell & Teryl Markey Robert & Mary Keedy William G. Wegener Hazeline Anderson Harman Kent & Ruth Ann Mason Pat W. Kingman Ron Wilson Mary Anderson Edward L. 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Ferguson Sharon Roon Barbara & Arthur Pavlovic Chuck Conner Derek Springston Ian Fitzpatrick Shirley Rosenbaum Beverly Prince Jarve Currence Sarah Taggart Richard Ford Frank & Barbara Ross Karen & Gerald Ready John Davidson Jon & Debby Thoma Carl Werntz & Donna Ford- Lois J. Schiffer Shirley & Alfred Rectenwald Charles Dobbins Tia Triplett Werntz Judy Seaman Linda Reeves - Cook Mary Douglas Krout Jann Whitehair Alvan Gale Neal Secrist Randall Reyer Margery Edington Josephine Wood Raymond Godwin John & Darina Sherwood John & Betty Roberts Gertrude Ehrlich Charles Yoho Carolyn Del Grande David Shribman & Cynthia Jean Rodman Eula L. Elliott Katharine Gregg Skrzycki H. John Rogers March Enders Dorothy M. Guy Joan Sims Helaine K. Rotgin Chally Erb Thanks to all of our Clara Mae Hall Barbara & James Smith Nicholas P & Monica S James & Tete Evans Teresa & Mark Hanson George & Katherine Rumsey members from the Pauline Farmer Walter Harbison Starzmann bottom of our hearts Father, Daughter and Blackwater Area Resident Capture Wins in First Blackwater Canyon Photography Contest Special thanks to Bruce Haley, Steve Shaluta, David Fattaleh and Steve Payne for judging 65 entries from 18 photographers in our first-ever Blackwater Canyon photography contest. Contestants from four states entered their work, and with the judges having no information on their identities, the classic “Like Father, Like Daughter” came about when the judges learned that grand prize winner Charles Stout was the father of Amy Stout, winner of two of the three categories. Living proof that the apple does not fall too far from the tree! Congratulations to both of them, and to Beth Spencer of Parsons, winner in the recreation category. First place winners were given a certificate and $50, and the grand prize photo was awarded $100.

Top left: First Prize in Botany and Wildlife Category: Moth on Flower by Amy Stout, S.Charleston, WV Canon G4 Digital

Bottom left: First Prize in the Recreation Category: Wading in Big RunRunRun by Beth Spencer, Parsons, Top right: West Virginia Grand Prize: Blackwater Falls Olympus C-4000Z by Charles Stout, Hanover, Virginia digital Nikon D 70

Bottom right: First Prize in Landscapes and Vistas Category: Ekala FallsFallsEkala by Amy Stout, S.Charleston, WV Canon G4 Digital

8 Blackwater Recreation

“Be prepared to take a chairlift to building plans upper elevations if you want to find we had heard snow,” I (Mary) wrote to the 12 members about that (Kathy, Caroline, Sara, Bozena, Liz, Fred, morning. I Ralph, Lee, Greg, Eleana, Ladin and suggested Doug) of the Potomac Appalachian Trail participants Club Ski Touring Section (PATC-STS) as come back in late as four days before my scheduled the spring to Feb. 11-13 trip, “Or bring your hiking mountain boots and nature guides, as this trip will bike the rail go regardless of snow conditions.” The trail on the weather was warm and the snow was other side of melting fast. Two days before trip the river from departure, staff at Blackwater Falls State Thomas to Park Lodge told me that the ground was Hendricks bare. Then, miraculously, snow on and especially Thursday and Friday returned the Park to to see the its winter wonderland status. Hooray! It rhodies and seemed to be just enough snow that we mountain could ski the lower elevations of laurel in Blackwater rather than finding snow via bloom along with other spring wildflowers. others (Bozena, Ralph, Caroline, Lee) chairlift. The less experienced breathed a Ravens, turkey vultures, squirrels and opted to ride the Canaan downhill area collective sigh of relief! After a great deer put in real-time appearances along lift to get to the Weiss Knob vicinity, and Hooray!We found snow! By Mary Vogel and Doug Lesar breakfast presentation on Friends of the our path that day. But we also saw tracks to find our way back down through Blackwater’s goals by Valerie Little (who for wild turkeys, fox, rabbit and maybe White Grass trails. Somehow, we very graciously went out of her way to weasel in the freshly fallen snow. We managed a car shuttle for six people and travel many hours in poor road stopped to admire all the healthy Red all their ski gear with just TWO cars, an conditions to reach Blackwater Park from Spruce seedlings and saplings coming in accomplishment that should make Charleston), we gratefully donned skis on along one area of the Dobbin House Trail— military logistics top dogs like Halliburton Saturday morning. an area that had obviously been through a flush with embarrassment. That smooth Most of the group headed out with significant disturbance. Further on, we operation contrasted, however, with the me for one of my favorite trips: the wondered at what first appeared to be 18” author’s brazen broad-daylight Dobbin House Trail in the Monongahela evenly spaced palm trees along the strip- assassination attempt on unwitting National Forest. We stopped first at mined area. A closer look showed that Bozena while entering the chair lift (bet Pendleton Point with its stunning view of they were actually some rather oddly- she will never pair up with me again!). the Lodge and the Gorge, to let the shaped long-needled pine seedlings This ugly incident was forgotten with the scene reinforce what Valerie had told struggling along. The half-dead 8” free treat of hot cider at the top of the lift us—that this special place deserves seedlings of the same species a little further and the snow-covered spruce / National Park status. The snow-draped down the trail made me wish out loud that hardwood forest on the knob. The hemlock, rhododendron and mountain WV had a stronger forest practices act National Nordic trails proved eminently laurel made our trip down this Noth Rim requiring restoration with multiple native navigable and very pretty. Even though of the Blackwater trail seem like a lavish species. the sun-exposed south slope of the reception line with our greeters dripping The four inches of snow, having fallen pipeline was half-bare, the north facing in diamonds. Along this trail, just beyond on warm earth was barely adequate when portion was quite skiable. Mary and I met, the turn for Dobbin House, there is we first started out, but by lunchtime it was by accident, visiting STSers Mitch, Jack, another special viewpoint where we took melting fast, making our trip a bit more and Greg, and adventure follows those off skis to climb out on a great rock cliff. rushed than I would have liked. I reminded guys like shadows. Our introduction to Here we could see the impressive those moaning about the snow conditions the “section line” downhill run through juncture with the North Fork of the that at least there were snow conditions. trees occurred due a misunderstanding Blackwater. As the magic of the place Tomorrow we could find the real snow via on my part as to where Mitch, Jack, and engulfed us, we were saddened to chairlift. Greg were going, but Mary and I survived imagine the logging and condominium This author (Doug), Mary, and four just fine (we usually do). 9 In Memory

In memory of Judy WebbWebbJudy by Michael In memory of Lois and Willard Webb – I liked to fish, but Judy, she VanValkenburgh by Diana Simonton - mostly liked taking care of her Lois was a community activist and Willard grandchildren. We would take them to was an insurance agent from Alexandria Blackwater and hike all over. We’d play in VA. They started visiting West Virginia and the water, do some bird watching, go the Blackwater Falls area in the 1950s and In memory of Arnold F. Schulz over to Dolly Sods and just have a real continued going for five more decades. by Barbara Schulz – Arnold was a good time. We would go for a week in They had three children who always went leader of the West Virginia Wildflower the summer and a week in the winter. It along and grew up to be lovers of the Pilgrimage for many years. He worked as was our favorite family fun thing to do. outdoors and strong supporters of the a wildlife biologist for the U. S. Forest environment. Lois and Willard told my Marjorie Charlton Hathaway Service in Elkins. He was a botanist, a In memory of Marjorie Charlton Hathaway family about the beauty of Blackwater birder and a great lover of the Blackwater by Gardner, Charlton and Taylor Falls, so the six of us started going there, Canyon. Hathaway - Our mother cared a lot about as well. I know that they would be happy the environment and people. She cared In memory of Betty and Bob Gow by with the work Friends of Blackwater is deeply about the gift of nature and how Raymond Godwin – Betty and Bob Gow doing to preserve the Blackwater Canyon. all life should be were like second parents to me. Bob was respected. a pediatrician and Betty was a nurse, and In memory of Lu Schrader by Doug Wood their daughter, Martha Gow Giddings In memory of Yvonne H.H.Yvonne The West Virginia trails EsserEsser was one of my best friends. The first time I Esser by Karl Esser - community lost a great advocate read the Friends of Blackwater newsletter, Because the Blackwater on November 8, 2001 when Lu I thought of them, because they Canyon was one of Schrader passed away. Thanks to absolutely loved Tucker County and all of Yvonne’s favorite places. him, the WVRC will continue to the beautiful nature it has to offer. She loved nature and pay a lead role in implementing cared deeply about the Statewide Trail Plan. Thanks In memory of Earl and Isa Miller by Adele protecting it. to Lu’s extraordinary vision for Cole – My parents grew up in Preston the Mountain State, West County and they enjoyed hiking the great In memory of RaymondRaymondRaymond Virginia’s trail system will become outdoors. They loved the mountains and Travis Marusi by Marc one of the best in the nation. His the rivers. Levine personal faith and commitment to family, our trail network will be a legacy left to future In memory of Sayre Rodman In memory of WesleyWesleyWesley generations. He and his wife, Midge, were the first private by Arthur and Betty G Evans Jr. - Sayre NicholsonNicholsonNicholson by Bonnie landowners to offer their property as a host for the Mary was an inspirational leader who taught Moats Draper Ingles Trail. For all of these things, I will remember Lu me much of what I know about the great Schrader, and one more thing: He was a good friend. outdoors. In Honor of Paul Teter by Donna Cook My dad taught me, as huckleberries in the a child, to see and plains. I went with my appreciate the beauty Dad at every and natural wonder of opportunity and the Allegheny Front. He inherited his love for was a hard worker, and the mountain. he expected the same of Usually on foot, his team of horses. On a sometimes on hillside farm in the horseback, we would Allegheny Fore Knobs, follow a foot path he raised cattle, sheep, through laurel thickets, pigs and goats, and he past beaver dams, and grew oats and corn. But, islands of spruce trees Sunday was the Sabbath, from Sugar Ridge to and a day for relaxation— Bear Rocks. horses included. Sometimes, we Sunday afternoons were tourists, too, on a were for exploring the Sunday afternoon wilds of the Allegheny, to dusty drive up Forest check the cattle, salt the The picture of Paul Teter was taken in the 1960s on his farm near Road 19 South of Streby sheep, or look for Maysville, WV, off Jordan Run Road — against the foreknobs of the Alleghenies. to Laneville. 10 Congratulations FOB Work Wins Award Signs of Spring Judy Rodd will be presented with the By John Lawrence Smith 2005 Laura Forman Grassroots Activist The calendar marks the date of the Award by the West Virginia Environmental vernal equinox, usually March 21, as the Council during their annual Dinner and first day of spring. Early signs of the season Reception on March 30. The dinner will be are found in the forest, field and marsh at 1311 Virginia Street East in Charleston weeks before the “official” date. Spring is from 5:30 to 9:30. Music will be provided by the season when birds are busy with the Steve Himes. For more information, contact toutine of nesting and raising young. The Denise Poole with the West Virginia Great Horned Owl is really an “early bird” and spirals upward with his wings making Environmental Council at 346-5905 or send at nesting and will often have eggs in the a twittering sound before tumbling to her an email at [email protected]. nest in February. earth. Listen for the deep voice of the owl — The presence of a woodstock can be Friends of Blackwater hoo, hoo, hoo, hah-hoooo — during detected by listening for the nasal “beep” Welcomes Jennifer Hughes hours of darkness when it is abroad on of the bird in an opening or field near woods after sunset. The bird will often be Jennifer Hughes from Parkersburg, West silent wings. The big owl begins nesting faintly visible in the gathering darkness as Virginia has joined the staff at Friends of when smaller birds are often seeking to it rises in flight. Blackwater. Jennifer is a graduate of Lewis survive the last weeks of winter. The fee-a-bee of an Eastern Phoebe will and Clark Law The little gray Tufted Titmouse is among be heard along a stream in early March School in the first birds to begin singing as it offers its where the little flycatcher sits bobbing its Portland wistful peter, peter, peter in the gray, tail. The nest of mud and moss will be Oregon, and leafless woods. It was once called “sugar built on a rock ledge, under a bridge or she obtained bird” since it became vocal about the on a beam inside a barn. her bachelor’s same time for making maple sugar. March hardly seems the time for degree in The American butterflies, but the Mourning Cloak with Environmental Woodcock, a dark wings edged in gold will often be Studies and dumpy bird with a seen. The butterfly spends the winter in Geology from long bill, will be somewhat a state of hibernation and Oberlin College performing its emerges with the coming of warm days. in Ohio. As a fascinating courtship The Wood Frog is rather aptly named member of the flight, or “sky dance,” and spends much of its life away from the W. Va. State Bar, Jennifer’s expertise in legal at dusk before the totally aquatic environment of most frogs. research has helped tremendously in end of February. Even so, it must lay its eggs in water and developing our latest study, “The Economic The male bird, to their “barking” will be heard around a Impact of the Proposed High Allegheny attract the female, pool where they are breeding. National Park in West Virginia.” We are very springs into flight The emerging stalks of Skunk Cabbage happy to have her helping us in this critical will be pushing upward from boggy stage of our organization’s growth. ground near where Wood Frogs may be heard. If you bend close to the plant, the unpleasant odor giving the plants its In honorhonorIn of name can readily be detected. Helaine Rotgin The fragrance of the little bell-like by Maureen Crockett flowers of Trailing Arbutus is pleasant compared to Skunk Cabbage. Arbutus, I made a donation to Friends with its fleshly, evergreen leaves, is among of Blackwater in honor of the first flowers to bloom where its Helaine, because she means blossoms add color to mats of moss. so much to the Kanawha A sound of spring in the high Valley. From all of her hard mountains is the mellow tooting of the work with the legislature to Saw-whet Owl. This diminuitive owl is her dedication as an activist, found in spruce forest and mixed Helaine Rotgin is a role model evergreens-hardwoods across Canada for young women. I admire and along the lofty ridges of the her immensely. Appalachians. Evidence of spring will be found many Helaine Rotgin receiving an places well before March 21 and the award from former West calendar seems tardy in marking the Virginia Governor Arch Moore appearance of the season. 11 Friends of Blackwater NON-PROFIT www.saveblackwater.org ORG 501 Elizabeth Street, Rm 3 US POSTAGE PAID Charleston, WV 25311 PERMIT NO. 1409 CHAS., WV 25301 Address Service Requested

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Eating Out at Blackwater For a taste of heaven in the mountains, cut French fries, visit Amelia’s Restaurant in Canaan Valley, homemade soups, WV. Amelia’s Restaurant is dedicated to the and desserts are just a memory of Amelia Earhart, one of the few of the delectable world’s first female pilots. Amelia’s is the choices. only restaurant in West Virginia that can Dinner offers something for every boast its own airstrip and resort community. appetite and budget. Chicken, steak, pasta, collectors & those Pilots can fly in for a delicious multiple ribs, seafood, vegetarian dishes, & simply looking for souvenirs. Canaan course meal or a quick “hundred dollar sandwiches are all available on the dinner Trading has livened our dining room with burger.” menu. Some entrées unique to Amelia’s their unique treasures. Lamps, pictures, Amelia’s Restaurant is not limited to pilots. Restaurant include Chicken Cordon Bleu furniture, seasonal decorations all With its beautiful views of the valley and with the traditional chicken, ham, & Swiss contribute to the unique dining famous homemade cuisine, it is quickly cheese, but with a creamy spinach & ricotta atmosphere and are available for sale. becoming a local favorite. The restaurant filling smothered in a smoky roasted red Amelia’s Restaurant is located at the offers a full menu for breakfast, lunch, and pepper sauce. And Rabbit Habit which Windwood Fly-In Resort Complex on dinner. includes an assortment of vegetables Cortland Lane off of Route 32. For more Breakfast favorites include the “WV sautéed in olive oil, garlic, & other information visit windwoodresort.com or Hearty Breakfast Platter” with eggs, home seasonings and tossed with vermicelli pasta. call 1-888-359-4667. We look forward to fries, choice of breakfast meat, & toast or a This dish is a favorite among vegetarians as serving you. Written by Katrina High homemade biscuit—sure to fill any well as meat eaters. Saturday night is BBQ mountain momma’s appetite. For folks on Rib Night. Featuring St. Louis Style BBQ Ribs From Davis, take Route 32 South to the go, the breakfast croissant is a favorite. chargrilled and basted with Norma’s Canaan Valley (about 10 miles), turn left Wherever your journey may take you, homemade BBQ sauce available for only onto Cortland Road. Travel about 1 mile, Amelia’s is sure to give you a great start to $12.99. Amelia’s offers a fine selection of turn left to Windwood Fly-In Resort. your day. beer and wine to compliment any dinner If traveling North on Route 32, just past Lunch items include a variety of entrée. the Canaan Valley Exxon station, turn appetizers, salads, & sandwiches. Amelia’s is Though the décor of the restaurant is right onto Cortland Road. Travel about a known for its homemade cuisine for all largely based on aviation, there is also mile, turn left to Windwood Fly-In Resort. meals and lunch is not an exception. Hand- something for the art enthusiasts, antique