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Event: Helicopter tour of Mountaintop Removal and Reclamation on Big Coal River watershed.

To learn more about the cultural dimensions of "mountaintop removal and reclamation" and the new landform complexes the coal industry is creating in the coal fields of central Appalachia, Lyntha Eiler and I visited the West Virginia Division of Environmental Protection. There we interviewed Roger Hall, the assistant director, who invited us to view by helicopter the mountaintop removal and reclamation in progress on the Marsh and Clear Forks of the Big Coal River. Benny Campbell, a mining inspector from the Logan County office of the DEP, accompanied us on our helicopter tour.

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fall mountaintop removal reclamation pre law highwalls strip spoil ethnography west junction coal river folklife collection tending the commons folklife and landscape in southern west virginia american folklife center lyntha scott eiler aerial view reclamation landscapes ultra high resolution high resolution west virginia library of congress
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01/01/1995
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West Junction
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Library of Congress
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https://www.loc.gov/
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fall mountaintop removal reclamation pre law highwalls strip spoil ethnography west junction coal river folklife collection tending the commons folklife and landscape in southern west virginia american folklife center lyntha scott eiler aerial view reclamation landscapes ultra high resolution high resolution west virginia library of congress