NOTICE: The program entitled "The Preservation of the Cheat Three
Tooth Snail in the Cheat Canyon"
will take place on Monday, June 28th at 10:30 am. This will be
held in Room 320 of Percival Hall,
Evansdale Campus of West Virginia University. Presentations by
the Cheat Lake Environment & Recreation
Association (CLEAR) and by the Copperhead Consulting Group will be
made. Representatives of the current
owner of Cheat Canyon forest lands will be present to answer questions,
i.e. the Allegheny Forestlands
LLC
NOTE: This meeting represents an update and report of the activities
under Consent Agreement
1:05-CV-61 FPS, US District Court, Northern District of West Virginia, of
February 5, 2007. This agreement
involved Plaintiffs CLEAR, the Friends of Blackwater, and the WV Chapter of
the Sierra Club. The original
Defendant was Allegheny Wood Products, Inc. who sold their forest land
interests in the Cheat Canyon on
March 27, 2009. The Copperhead Consulting group has completed the
delineation of actual and potential
habitat for the Cheat three-tooth snail in Areas 1, 2 and 3 on the north
side (river-right) and recently for
Area 4 on the south side (river-left). Logging was completed by
Allegheny Wood Products last year
for the north side and no logging is currently planned for the
southside. A northern segment of the
Allegheny Trail passes thru the north Areas 1, 2, and 3, but is closed to
the public.
Duane Nichols, CLEAR.