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Parkersburg sits where the Ohio and Little Kanawha Rivers meet, creating a watery playground ... Photo Credit: Kenneth Lempert – Pixels Coopers Rock State Forest, just outside town, has one of the ...
CHARLESTON — To compete in the sport of Irish road bowling, which makes its second appearance of the year Saturday at Kanawha State Forest, a substantial investment in equipment or training is ...
and Kanawha State Forest in Kanawha County. West Virginia offers recreational opportunities across the state. With 78% — or 12 million of its 15.4 million acres — forested, West Virginia is ...
REPORTS ON THE STATUS OF THE FIRES. THE FIRE BURNED UP THOUSANDS OF ACRES HERE AT THE MICHAUX STATE FOREST. IF YOU LOOK BEHIND ME RIGHT NOW, YOU CAN SEE THE CHARRED AREAS OF THE GROUND.
CLENDENIN, W.Va. (WCHS) — State officials gather to celebrate the opening of a new trail in Kanawha County on Wednesday. The Elk River Rail Trailhead is a 52-mile trail that runs alongside the ...
More than 1,000 acres of the southern Pennsylvania state forest are being monitored for management work set to begin this summer. Foresters plan to use various techniques, including non-commercial ...
ONE OF THE FIRE CHIEFS SAID THAT THIS WAS THE KIND OF FIRE THEY TRAINED FOR, BUT IT IS UNLIKELY THAT THEY’LL COME ACROSS ANOTHER FIRE LIKE IT ANYTI The wildfires in Michaux State Forest in ...
Park Forest operates its own water treatment plant rather than relying on drinking water from other municipalities. The village's water ranked fourth in the state at Watercon this month.
WAYNESBORO, Pa. — As first responders contain the two wildfires in Cumberland County, people in Franklin County are looking for ways to help the Michaux State Forest rise from the ashes.
While the wildfires were contained to state forest land, they are expected to smolder for an extended period, and the cause is still under investigation. Less than a month after Pennsylvania Gov.
The investigation into what started the two fires that burned for 14 days in Michaux State Forest is ongoing, but DCNR’s Bureau of Forestry Fire Protection Chief Mike Kern said the fires were ...
Oregon State University has acquired 3,110 acres of industrial timberland just outside Portland on the north edge of Forest Park and plans to run it as a working research forest for logging ...