Officials at Canaan Valley National Wildlife Refuge are looking for a few good men and women to volunteer as tree planters Saturday and Sunday as part of a red spruce reforestation project for the refuge. Volunteers are asked to meet at the refuge's visitor center on W.Va. 32 at 9 a.m.

By Paul J. Nyden pjnyden@wvgazette.com Allegheny Wood Products, based in Petersburg, did not follow an agreement to give notice before it began a controversial logging project in the heart of Blackwater Canyon on March 26.

Eleven citizen and environmental groups in West Virginia and Maryland have filed a 60-day notice about their intent to sue a wind power project.

By Rick Steelhammer rsteelhammer@wvgazette.com JOB - Logging in the early 1900s turned West Virginia's lush, half-million-acre virgin red spruce forest into a wasteland of stumps and slash.

By Rick Steelhammer rsteelhammer@wvgazette.com Groundbreaking ceremonies will take place Saturday for Canaan Valley Institutes new $8 million Research and Education Center, which will use new green technology to make it completely self-sustaining, from power production to wastewater treatment.