In early April 2024, Ted Glick and Jane Califf, grandparents aged 74 and 83, locked themselves to a large, wooden possum in Roanoke County, blocking work on the Mountain Valley Pipeline for more than 6 hours. They are a married couple of 45 years from New Jersey who said that, "We are taking action together as elders deeply concerned about the future facing our 3-year-old grandson, all children, and all life on earth."

Ted is an organizer with Beyond Extreme Energy and Jane is a retired teacher and both have been activists since the Civil Rights movement and protests during the Vietnam War. Over the past decade they have been active in the movement to protect monarch butterflies from extinction.

According to a statement from Appalachians Against Pipelines, Glick and Califf were arrested and charged with three misdemeanors. They were assigned bail for $3,000 and were released from jail later that day.

The Mountain Valley Pipeline is a gas pipeline spanning approximately 300 miles (480km) from northwestern West Virginia into southern Virginia in the United States. Environmental advocates have spent a decade fighting the construction of the pipeline, which started in 2018. The pipeline became operational on June 14, 2024.