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This graphic illustration of mountaintop removal appears on page 25 of The Stripmining Handbook: A Coalfield Citizens' Guide to Using the Law to Fight Back Against the Ravages of Strip Mining and Underground Mining, by Mark Squillace.

The Environmental Policy Institute and Friends of the Earth: Washington, D.C., 1990.

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1970 - 1990
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Squillace, Mark (Author)
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Library of Congress
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mountaintop removal nineteen eighties nineteen ninties nineteen seventies strip mining manuscripts ethnography diagram mountaintop high resolution coal river folklife collection tending the commons folklife and landscape in southern west virginia american folklife center american memory mark squillace ultra high resolution west virginia mining site mine