1 Casey, Colleagues Introduce Bipartisan Bill to Clean Up Water Pollution from Abandoned Mines

2 NASA DEVELOP Team partners with FOC to assess Flood Risk and Changing Climate specific to Preston and Tucker Counties

3 AML Program Fee Collection Expires Sept 30

4 Friends of the Cheat Receives $1.1 million from Appalachian Regional Commission’s POWER Initiative for Mountaineer Trail Network

5 Muddy Creek AMD Blowout

6 Fish Tails Tell the Tale

7 Monongahela National Forest Celebrates 100 Years of Conservation and Service

8 Funding Awarded to Study the Removal of the Albright Dam on the Cheat River

9 Friends of The Cheat Receives $50,000 from Appalachian Regional Commission to create a Preston County Trail Plan.

10 FOC Notes the 40th Anniversary of the Surface Mining Reclamation & Control Act

11 A New Chapter for the River of Promise

12 Public Lands are “Priceless” – by Matt Kearns

13 EPA Cheat River Success Stories

14 New Trail Property Purchased in Preston County

15 An Interview with Bob McVicker, Chief Operator, Kingwood Water Treatment Plant

16 Getting My Feet Wet Once Again

17 Cheat Canyon Preserved!

18 WV Division of Land Restoration & Friends of the Cheat Partnership Pilot Project launch

19 Friends of the Cheat Receives Property Donation

20 WV Northern Maintenance Properties: On the Right Track to Revitalization