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These Are Your Mountains . . .
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Clockwise from top: An undisturbed vista
of some of the oldest mountains in the world, rich in
diversity of trees, plants and animals; A mountain homeplace
in the fall, soon to be the target of a mountaintop removal
mining project; Black-winged Damselflies, one of the
building blocks of the mountain ecosystem, have a hard time
finding food in barren, “reclaimed” mountaintop removal
sites.
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. . . These Are Your Mountains on Massey. . . or Arch . . . or . . .
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Clockwise from top left: More explosives
are used to decapitate mountains in Appalachia then have
been used fighting the “war” on terror; Illegal drainage
from a coal sludge impoundment in Mingo County. When tested,
this so-called water proved to be very high in nickel;
“Reclamation” underway at a mountaintop removal/valley fill
mining site. The patchy areas above the building are where
the coal companies are attempting to get grass to grow on
churned-over subsoils and bare rock. |
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ANY QUESTIONS?
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