West Virginia University Press

Listening to the Land: Stories from the Cacapon and Lost River Valley

The Cacapon and Lost Rivers are located in the Appalachian Mountains of West Virginia’s eastern panhandle. Well loved by paddlers and anglers, these American Heritage Rivers are surrounded by a lush valley of wildlife and flora that is part of the Chesapeake Bay watershed.Although still rural and mostly forested, development and land fragmentation in the Cacapon and Lost …

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