North Fork Watershed Project

North Fork Watershed Project Our office is located on the second floor of the Buxton Landstreet Building, above Buxton Landstreet Galleries and Studios. Please stop by and visit!

The North Fork Watershed Project, established in August of 2002, is committed to working with the community to find creative solutions to this problem. Solutions to the water pollution will take into account the rich cultural resources in the watershed. The area boomed in the early part of the 1900’s with the coal mining and timber industries. These industries are gone leaving these adverse enviro

nmental impacts as well as many historical landmarks. Some of the watershed project’s goals include coordinating historical and educational projects and working with state and federal agencies to improve water quality in the North Fork and the amount of life the river can sustain. The North Fork Watershed Project was created by Judy Rodd, executive director for Friends of Blackwater Canyon to clean up the acid mine drainage in the North Fork of Blackwater River.

Exciting news about the North Fork restoration plans!
10/14/2020

Exciting news about the North Fork restoration plans!

Friends of Blackwater has entered into a contract with the engineering company BioMost to design a water treatment site that will restore the North Fork of the…

09/15/2020

Join FOB and volunteers tomorrow, September 16th, and Saturday, September 19th, to help remove invasive plant species from the Blackwater Rail Trail!

Meet at 9 AM at 571 Douglas Rd Thomas, WV 26292 and we'll drive out to the Rail Trail together. Tools and PPE will be provided. Please wear pants and close toed shoes.

Learn more about this year-long botanical restoration project here:
https://saveblackwater.org/rail-trail-botanical-restoration-volunteering-opportunities/

09/07/2020

Friends of Blackwater was recently awarded a grant from the National Forest Foundation to begin the Blackwater Rail Trail Botanical Restoration project. Today…

08/14/2020

Tomorrow!! Join us at 10 AM at the Buxton and Landstreet Gallery in Thomas, WV to ride out to the Coke Ovens on the Rail Trail and give them a much needed clean up. Bring water and wear pants. Equipment will be provided.

RSVP at the link below. See you in the morning!

https://saveblackwater.org/heritage/2020-coke-oven-clean-u

07/31/2020

On Saturday, August 15th at 10 am, we will be cleaning up the iconic coke ovens along the Blackwater Rail Trail to Douglas Falls.

Meet at the Buxton and Landstreet building in Thomas. FOB will provide some basic tools and gloves, but please come prepared with whatever else you need to comfortably work outdoors.
https://saveblackwater.org/heritage/2020-coke-oven-clean-up/

To comply with USFS volunteer rules during COVID-19, we have to cap the number of volunteers at 10 this year. PLEASE RSVP if you can attend!!

07/08/2020

Only three more days to take action!
https://saveblackwater.org/take-action/keystone-npdes-permit-petition/

Join us in requesting a public hearing for this permit and demanding that the WV DEP Division of Mining and Reclamation treat Beaver Creek as a trout stream before issuing a permit for the Keystone Surface Mining site to discharge water into the Watershed. This NPDES permit should raise discharge standards to that of a trout stream. Add your name to this petition to help advocate for clean water in the Blackwater Watershed!

Meet our second Endangered Species Art Contest judge- "Ginny" the WV Northern Flying Squirrel!Ginny loves to glide up to...
04/20/2020

Meet our second Endangered Species Art Contest judge- "Ginny" the WV Northern Flying Squirrel!

Ginny loves to glide up to 25 meters across old growth forests, eat truffles found underground, and is very rare, so her habitat must be protected!

Check out how to enter the contest below:
https://saveblackwater.org/wildlife/endangered-species-art-contest/

02/28/2020

Your comments and signatures (we are at almost 1,700 now!) on FOB’s injection well petition that accompanied our comments objecting to this waste disposal have led to a public hearing regarding this permit renewal.

DATE+TIME:
March 5th @ 5pm:
5-6 PM- document review and Q/A with DEP personnel
6-8 PM- public hearing

LOCATION:
Tucker County Board of Education Auxiliary Gym
100 Education Lane, Parsons, WV 26287

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If you can’t attend this public hearing, sign our petition to still let your voice be heard! Pillar Energy wants a permit to inject 590 barrels a day of fluid produced from gas wells into an “injection well”. This toxic mixture of chemicals could leak into groundwater or Horseshoe Run and the Cheat River, undermining millions of dollars of restoration work to make the river healthy.

https://saveblackwater.org/take-action/underground-injection-petition/

02/19/2020

Friends of Blackwater is again sponsoring this year’s Winter Wildlands Alliance Backcountry Film Festival, at Whitegrass Ski Touring Center in Canaan Valley…

02/07/2020

Check out some of the great items we'll be auctioning off at the annual Backcountry Film Fest!

Join us on Feb 21st at 5:30 pm at Whitegrass to watch some amazing films and bid on some of these great items.

Get your tickets here: https://saveblackwater.org/backcountry-film-fest-2020/

Address

571 Douglas Road
Thomas, WV
26292

Opening Hours

Monday 9am - 5pm
Tuesday 9am - 5pm
Wednesday 9am - 5pm
Thursday 9am - 5pm
Friday 9am - 5pm

Telephone

+13043457663

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