David Sibray
Whether you love or hate trees, practical and profitable reasons to plant and maintain them exist. To some folk, they’re limb-dropping, leaf-littering sources of sap. Research demonstrates that their benefits usually outweigh their disadvantages. In West Virginia, where trees thrive naturally, parking lots and sterile fields can appear so unnatural as to lead to a … Read more
At least by the second week of March, West Virginians are being serenaded by a chorus of spring peepers, a sure sign winter is done. Pseudacris crucifer, as the little peepers are officially known, breed and vocalize when their wetland homes begin to thaw. After a long, cold winter, their voices are most welcome. You’re … Read more
I think that most explorers are motivated by a shared sense of curiosity — a need to know what lies beyond. Beyond the ridge. Behind the ranges. Beyond field and forest. Many of my own country drives and woodland hikes are lengthened simply by the need to see what’s around another turn. Fellow explorer Harriette … Read more
The 2014 relaunch of West Virginia Explorer has been deputied not by a jet-setting newcomer to the industry, but by our publication’s first webmaster. Answering the clarion call for assistance in the relaunch of more than 2,000 pages, Jonathan Moore has returned after 14 years, and I couldn’t be happier. Though a skillful webmaster, he … Read more
