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Longtime Guardians volunteers Mike Murphy and Jim Nedrow testing for pollution at the mouth of Lambert Run The Guardians are launching a new speaker series to celebrate 25 years of cleaning up the West Fork River and promoting recreation on the river. The first talk, by Senior Water Research Scientist, Mel Shafer, West Virginia WaterContinue reading “Celebrating the West Fork Valley”

Guardians Board and members Randy Kesling, Robert Helfer, Sally Egan, Lisa deGruyter, and Al Cox, in new volunteer recognition hats and caps, hold our new Water Trail signs, all funded by a previous Stream Partners Grant. The Guardians have been awarded a 2026 Stream Partners Program Grant, which will continue to support our work inContinue reading “Stream Partners Grant Fuels River Conservation Efforts”

West Virginia Rivers September 2025 Did you know the best way to ensure you can trust what comes out of your tap is to protect the sources of drinking water — our rivers, streams, lakes, reservoirs, and groundwater? That’s the focus of Source Water Protection Week, a national effort to raise awareness about keeping drinkingContinue reading “It’s Source Water Protection Week!”

We may not think about it often, but the West Fork Watershed is part of the vast headwaters of the Ohio (and so the Mississippi). The first land grants in our part of the country often labeled the land as “on the waters of the Mississippi.” What happens in our yards, our land, our woodsContinue reading “The Ohio Starts Here!”