LISTEN: Stephen Wilson Jr. Has The Mountain Stage Song Of The Week
This week's encore broadcast of Mountain Stage was recorded at the Culture Center Theater i...
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsWVSU Extension Service will host a free tree identification workshop at the Claudia L. Workman Wildlife Education Center in Alum Creek on Saturday, Dec. 13.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsOn this West Virginia Morning, we hear from a West Virginia Division of Natural Resources biologist about a program to give new habitats to local fish with old Christmas trees, and from The Allegheny Front learning how to identify the trees around us.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsOn this West Virginia Morning, a conversation about what President Joe Biden’s energy policies have done for the state and region, understanding the role of West Virginia’s Foster Care Ombudsmen, and beech trees are on the brink of extinction in Pennsylvania.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsDede Styles in North Carolina uses common roadside plants to make natural dyes for fabrics. She teaches the craft, but it’s also part of a bigger mission for Styles. Folkways Reporter Rebecca Williams brings us this story.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsOn this West Virginia Morning, WVPB last spring covered efforts at Shepherd University to regrow American chestnut forests in Appalachia. One year later, that project has incorporated new technology and a familiar tree variant. Jack Walker caught up with a pair of self-proclaimed “chestnutters” to discuss the project at large, and the future of the American chestnut.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsThe weather is getting cooler, the days shorter, and the leaves have started changing. Briana Heaney sat down with Park Ranger Dave Bieri at the Canyon Rim Visitor Center in the New River Gorge Park and Preserve recently to talk about why the leaves change and where to go to see some of those warm fall colors.
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