The National Park Service has begun a review process, initiated by freshman Senator Manchin of WV, to consider a new National Park centered around the high Alleghenies. In the past, it was suggested that Blackwater Falls State Park serve as the center-point of such a park. I hope the proposal is seriously considered and that a new National Park can be formed here in the East. That part of West Virginia certainly has the geological and biological assets for such a park.
I'm sure the coal, gas, gun, and timber industries will fight it tooth and nail, but a National Park in that area is overdue.