Feds Eye Appalachia — But for a National Park, Not Coal
By Michael Frank, Adventure Journal on December 2nd, 2011
Will West Virginia get a new national park? The feds have been considering creating a new national park in Maine, and Mainers have been up in arms over what they see as a land grab, and now the National Park Service is looking at almost heaven West Virginia. The difference? The West Virginia study was requested by Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va. The proposed High Allegheny National Park would be formed from parts of the Monongahela National Forest as well as Blackwater Falls and Canaan Valley state parks.
