ACTION ALERT - Conservation of Appalachian Medicinal Plants

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Winds of Change
February 2005

Contents

OVEC Co-Director's MTR Fight Featured in Alumni Magazine

YES! West Virginia's Clean Elections Bill Moving Forward

Activists’ Field Trip to WV: Report Back on Mountain Range Removal

State Bird Populations Declining, Loss of Habitat Due to MTR A Factor

How Big Business is Quietly Funding a Judicial Revolution in the Nation’s Court Systems

WV Lawmakers Writing Bill to Limit Giving to So-Called 527 Groups

Will Benjamin Be a Reliable Pro-Business Vote on WV Supreme Court? Some Fear He Will Defer to Big Money, His Election Backers

Next Supreme Court Race Could Be Just as Nasty, Observers Fear

West Virginia ‘Open for Business,’ Coal Leaders Say

Massey Chief Gets a BIG Thumbs Down from Coalfield Residents

Maine and Arizona Voters Reaped the Benefits of Their Publicly-Funded Clean Election Systems on Nov. 2

West Virginians Reverse Past Trend of Election Year Complacency

West Virginia Heads Down a New Political Road Less Taken - Republican

We Care, We Count and We Voted!

Boy Killed by Flyrock; Va. Residents Cite Flawed Regs

Help Counter King Coal’s Massive PR Campaign; Write Letters To the Editor!

Ecologist leads effort to rescue plants on mining, logging sites

Help Us Make Coalfield Communities Safer from Sludge

OVEC Presents Si Galperin the Laura Forman Passion for Justice Award

The Mourning Mountains

New DEP Office is ... Interesting

THANKS! to everyone who supports OVEC's work with financial contributions!

Only Turkeys Would Eat That Turkey

ACTION ALERT
Conservation of Appalachian Medicinal Plants

Web Extra Articles Below
(not in printed newsletter)

State's judges not for sale; Big bucks not 'investing' in Arizona bench

Justice? Bizarre court race

Presentation to the Nation on our Situation

Lessons on the mountain: Virginia Tech students witness the scars caused by mountaintop coal mining at Kayford Mountain, W.Va.

Julia Has Style

Good Riddance to Bad Rubbish

Human extinction within 100 years warns scientist

Feel safer? Then you might not want to read this book

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ACTION ALERT

The Conservation of Appalachian Medicinal Plants project is interested in surveying sites that are scheduled for mountaintop removal, timbering, construction and the like for plants whose survival is threatened in West Virginia and/or globally, such as:

Butternut, Dogwood, Ginseng, Lady’s slipper, Serviceberry, Trillium

Anyone knowing of such sites is asked to contact the Mountain State University Medicinal Botanicals Program at (304) 253-7352, ext. 1687 or dmyles@mountainstate.edu.

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