Diagram of mountaintop removal - Public domain document scan
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 Mi... More
Aerial view of Battle Ridge Coal Pit, in Orgas
To better understand the method of mining known as "mountaintop removal and reclamation," Lyntha Eiler and I visited the West Virginia Division of Environmental Protection. There we interviewed Roger Hall, the ... More
Close-up of "field" locust on reclaimed mountaintop removal site, Whit...
Event: ATV tour of Mountaintop Removal and Reclamation on Clear Fork.
Aerial view of mountaintop removal site on Cabin Creek
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The commemorative march on Blair Mountain on the anniversary of the 19...
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Aerial view of sludge dam at Elk Run, West Virginia
Event: Helicopter tour of Mountaintop Removal and Reclamation on Big Coal River watershed. Through mountaintop removal and reclamation, the coal industry is introducing several new landforms to the coal fields.... More
Costain mountaintop removal mine, White Oak
Event: ATV tour of Mountaintop Removal and Reclamation on Clear Fork.
Larry Gibson holding microphone for James Weekley who is demonstrating...
Event: Protest of Mountaintop Removal. Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Passengers from a Methodist church, following a flyover
Event: Coal River Mountain Watch flyover. Public domain photograph - group portrait, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
George Daugherty, the "Earl of Elkview," singing songs in protest of m...
Event: Mountaintop Removal Rally. Public domain photograph - performance, musical, dance, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
"Big John," the dragline, shoveling coal at the Samples mountaintop re...
Event: Aerial tour of mountaintop removal and reclamation. The Samples mine covers eleven miles of the Cabin Creek Plateau. Writing in The Virginias, a 19th century industrial magazine, D.T. Ansted praised the ... More
Aerial view of Shumate's Branch sludge pond
Event: Helicopter tour of Mountaintop Removal and Reclamation on Big Coal River watershed. "Shumate's Branch was settled in the 19th century by Green Clay (son of Charles and Aura Clay) and his wife Betsy Ann, ... More
Mine sedimentation pond above a home on Toney's Fork
Event: ATV tour of Mountaintop Removal and Reclamation on Clear Fork.
Laura Forman, of the Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition, talking with...
Event: Protest of Mountaintop Removal. Public domain photograph - historical image of Ohio, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
The commemorative march on Blair Mountain on the anniversary of the 19...
Public domain photo of a monument, historic place, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Closing circle of the Mountaintop Removal Summit
Event: Mountaintop Removal Summit. In August of 1999, Sam Cook, an anthropologist at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia, organized a Mountaintop Removal Summit. The summit, held at the Appalachian South Folk... More
Bird's eye view of a continuous belt-feeder
Event: Helicopter tour of Mountaintop Removal and Reclamation on Big Coal River watershed. "To better understand the method of mining known as "mountaintop removal and reclamation," Lyntha Eiler and I visited t... More
"Big John," the dragline, loading rocks and dirt into two rock trucks ...
Event: Aerial tour of mountaintop removal and reclamation. Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Stone marker near the family cemetery that reads: "John 3:16 Isa 2:2"
The Stanley Heirs Park was formed by descendants of 19th-century settlers who farmed and worked in the mines. The heirs own both minerals and surface rights to this part of Kayford Mountain, which overlooks an ... More
Meeting of Coal River Mountain Watch and concerned citizens at he Pett...
Event: Coal River Mountain Watch Meeting and flyovers. Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Aerial view of Samples Mine on Cabin Creek
Event: Coal River Mountain Watch flyover. Public domain photograph of quarry, mining industry, miners, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Mountaintop removal site from the air
Following the rally in Cabin Creek, and a meeting of the Appalachian Voices board of directors, Hume Davenport, of Southwings in Tennessee, took board members and residents of the Coal River Valley on a series ... More
The Sludge Pond at Shumate's Branch, rising above the Marsh Fork Eleme...
"Shumate's Branch was settled in the 19th century by Green Clay (son of Charles and Aura Clay) and his wife Betsy Ann, daughter of Jacob and Celia Pettry, who had settled in Hazy Creek. The hollow was home to d... More
Aerial view of Mountaintop removal and reclamation landscapes
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... More
Aerial view of sludge dam at Elk Run, West Virginia
Event: Helicopter tour of Mountaintop Removal and Reclamation on Big Coal River watershed. Through mountaintop removal and reclamation, the coal industry is introducing several new landforms to the coal fields.... More
Australian Filmmaker interviewing miners from the Princess Beverly Min...
Event: Protest of Mountaintop Removal. Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Aerial view of sludge impounded on Brushy Fork
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"Mountain Top Cemetery," spread out on field in front of Appalachian F...
The Mountain Top Cemetery comprises more than a thousand tombstones made of cardboard. Each is inscribed with the name of a stream buried under valley fill. Jackson has also created protest puppets and costumes... More
Exposed seam of coal, Samples mountaintop removal site on Cabin Creek
Event: Aerial tour of mountaintop removal and reclamation. Though permit applications for mountaintop removal projects routinely attest to the absence of prime farmland in such sites, articles in 19th century i... More
The John Amos Coal-Fired Utility Plant
Event: Helicopter tour of Mountaintop Removal and Reclamation on Big Coal River watershed. To better understand the method of mining known as "mountaintop removal and reclamation," Lyntha Eiler and I visited th... More
Aerial view of Mountaintop removal and reclamation
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 th... More
View of a valley fill behind a home on Toney's Fork
Event: ATV tour of Mountaintop Removal and Reclamation on Clear Fork.
Aerial view of mountaintop removal near Blair
Event: Coal River Mountain Watch flyover. Public domain photograph of quarry, mining industry, miners, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Office of the Coal River Mountain Watch
Event: Driving Route 3. Coal River Mountain Watch is an organization that helped to nominate Coal River to the American Rivers' Council's list of the ten most endangered rivers in America.
Aerial view of Battle Ridge Coal Pit, in Orgas
To better understand the method of mining known as "mountaintop removal and reclamation," Lyntha Eiler and I visited the West Virginia Division of Environmental Protection. There we interviewed Roger Hall, the ... More
View of Arch Mineral Corporation's mountaintop removal and reclamation...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a miner, coal mine, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Coal river. Reclaimed abandoned highwall, White Oak. Southern West Vir...
Event: ATV tour of Mountaintop Removal and Reclamation on Clear Fork.
Reclamation of mountaintop removal site from the air
Following the rally in Cabin Creek, and a meeting of the Appalachian Voices board of directors, Hume Davenport, of Southwings in Tennessee, took board members and residents of the Coal River Valley on a series ... More
Coal river. Bradley Mountain from the air. Southern West Virginia.
Following the rally in Cabin Creek, and a meeting of the Appalachian Voices board of directors, Hume Davenport, of Southwings in Tennessee, took board members and residents of the Coal River Valley on a series ... More
Variety of landform complexes on a mountaintop removal site from the a...
Following the rally in Cabin Creek, and a meeting of the Appalachian Voices board of directors, Hume Davenport, of Southwings in Tennessee, took board members and residents of the Coal River Valley on a series ... More
Coal river. Mary Hufford interviewing Roger Hall. Southern West Virgin...
To better understand the method of mining known as "mountaintop removal and reclamation," Lyntha Eiler and I visited the West Virginia Division of Environmental Protection. There we interviewed Roger Hall, the ... More
"Big John," the dragline, loading rocks and dirt into two rock trucks ...
Event: Aerial tour of mountaintop removal and reclamation. Public domain photograph of quarry, mining industry, miners, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Aerial view of Mountaintop removal and reclamation
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 th... More
Aerial view of Mountaintop Removal, approaching Racine
Event: Helicopter tour of Mountaintop Removal and Reclamation on Big Coal River watershed. "To better understand the method of mining known as "mountaintop removal and reclamation," Lyntha Eiler and I visited t... More
View of Arch Mineral Corporation's mountaintop removal and reclamation...
The Samples Mine was named for the St. Louis, Missouri-based company's executive, Eugene Samples. Though permit applications for mountaintop removal projects routinely attest to the absence of prime farmland in... More
Table of bumper stickers and t-shirts either protesting mountaintop re...
The Stanley Heirs Park was formed by descendants of 19th-century settlers who farmed and worked in the mines. The heirs own both minerals and surface rights to this part of Kayford Mountain, which overlooks an ... More
Presentation by Peter Lawson, Manager of Engineering and Environmental...
Event: 25th Annual West Virginia Mining Symposium. Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Bob Kiss, Speaker of the House for the West Virginia Legislature, look...
During the 1998 election campaign, Mr. Kiss visited the Ramp House at the head of Drew's Creek. Citizens voiced their concerns about mountaintop removal, enclosure of lands traditionally used for hunting, gathe... More
Aerial view of sludge impounded at the head of Little Marsh Fork
The capacity of this sludge pond is projected at seven billion gallons, with the level of the sludge rising to 2,250 feet above sea level. At the time of this photo, the impoundment contained about 500,000 gall... More
View of Arch Mineral Corporation's mountaintop removal and reclamation...
The Samples Mine was named for the St. Louis, Missouri-based company's executive, Eugene Samples. Though permit applications for mountaintop removal projects routinely attest to the absence of prime farmland in... More
Reclamation on the Costain mountaintop removal site, White Oak
Event: ATV tour of Mountaintop Removal and Reclamation on Clear Fork.
Randy Sprouse at the Costain mine reclamation site, White Oak
Event: ATV tour of Mountaintop Removal and Reclamation on Clear Fork.
Cemetery, made by Carol Jackson, an artist from Hinton, West Virginia,...
Event: Mountaintop Removal Rally. Public domain photograph - cemetery, graves, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Views of the Samples Mine and surrounding area from the Stanley Family...
Event: Visit to Stanley Family Cemetery. Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
"Mountain Top Cemetery," spread out on field in front of Appalachian F...
The Mountain Top Cemetery comprises more than a thousand tombstones made of cardboard. Each is inscribed with the name of a stream buried under valley fill. Jackson has also created protest puppets and costumes... More
Carol Jackson, Hinton artist who created the Mountain Top Cemetery
The Mountain Top Cemetery comprises more than a thousand tombstones made of cardboard. Each is inscribed with the name of a stream buried under valley fill. Jackson has also created protest puppets and costumes... More
Aerial view of dust swirling around reclaimed mountaintop removal site
Event: Aerial tour of mountaintop removal and reclamation. Public domain photograph of mountain crater, caldera, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Aerial view of Catenary Coal's Samples Mine, a Mountaintop Removal pro...
Event: Helicopter tour of Coal River and Mountaintop Removal Sites. In the 1990s, mountaintop removal and reclamation became the mining method of choice for coal operators in central Appalachia. Mountaintop rem... More
Landform complexes produced at the Samples Mountaintop Removal Project...
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Field locust growing on reclaimed mountaintop removal site, White Oak
Event: ATV tour of Mountaintop Removal and Reclamation on Clear Fork.
Coal river. The reclamation of White Oak. Southern West Virginia.
Event: ATV tour of Mountaintop Removal and Reclamation on Clear Fork.
Sam Cook, displaying the backside of the t-shirt designed by Carol Jac...
Event: Mountaintop Removal Summit. In August of 1999, Sam Cook, an anthropologist at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia, organized a Mountaintop Removal Summit. The summit, held at the Appalachian South Folk... More
"Mountain Top Cemetery," spread out on field in front of Appalachian F...
The Mountain Top Cemetery comprises more than a thousand tombstones made of cardboard. Each is inscribed with the name of a stream buried under valley fill. Jackson has also created protest puppets and costumes... More
"Highland complex" on a mountaintop removal reclamation site
Event: Tour of Reclamation Sites in White Oak and Surrounding Area. "Stacy Edmunds conducted a tour of sites she'd been using in her field study for her master's thesis in ecology. As she went, she explained th... More
Aerial view of the Samples Mountaintop Removal Project on Cabin Creek
Event: Helicopter tour of Coal River and Mountaintop Removal Sites. In the 1990s, mountaintop removal and reclamation became the mining method of choice for coal operators in central Appalachia. Mountaintop rem... More
View of Arch Mineral Corporation's mountaintop removal and reclamation...
Event: Tour of Mountaintop Removal and Reclamation Sites from Seng Creek to White Oak. The Samples Mine was named for the St. Louis, Missouri-based company's executive, Eugene Samples.
Aerial view of Mountaintop removal and reclamation
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 th... More
Stacy Edmunds, Randy Sprouse, and Orie Loucks examining materials on m...
Event: Panel on Lifeways, Livelihoods, and the Commons, Lucy Braun Association Meeting.
Views of the Samples Mine and surrounding area from the Stanley Family...
Event: Visit to Stanley Family Cemetery. Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
The "Stanley Heritage Mine" en route to the Stanley Heirs Park on Kayf...
Event: Driving up Cabin Creek. Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Close-up of information displayed in window of Coal River Mountain Wat...
Event: Driving Route 3. Coal River Mountain Watch is an organization that helped to nominate Coal River to the American Rivers' Council's list of the ten most endangered rivers in America.
Aerial view of mountaintop removal near Blair
Event: Coal River Mountain Watch flyover. Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
"Mountain Top Cemetery," spread out on field in front of Appalachian F...
The Mountain Top Cemetery comprises more than a thousand tombstones made of cardboard. Each is inscribed with the name of a stream buried under valley fill. Jackson has also created protest puppets and costumes... More
Aerial shot of the coal processing plant at Elk Run, West Virginia, an...
Event: Helicopter tour of Mountaintop Removal and Reclamation on Big Coal River watershed. Through mountaintop removal and reclamation, the coal industry is introducing several new landforms to the coal fields.... More
"Big John," the dragline, loading rocks and dirt into two rock trucks ...
Event: Aerial tour of mountaintop removal and reclamation. Though permit applications for mountaintop removal projects routinely attest to the absence of prime farmland in such sites, articles in 19th century i... More
Aerial shot of the coal processing plant at Elk Run, West Virginia, an...
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Strip mine reclaimed in grass with pine seedlings and rock-lined drain...
Event: Tour of Mountaintop Removal and Reclamation Sites from Seng Creek to White Oak.
Aerial view of sludge dam at Elk Run, West Virginia
Event: Helicopter tour of Mountaintop Removal and Reclamation on Big Coal River watershed. Through mountaintop removal and reclamation, the coal industry is introducing several new landforms to the coal fields.... More
Costain mountaintop removal and reclamation site, White Oak
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Reclamation on the Costain mountaintop removal site, White Oak
Event: ATV tour of Mountaintop Removal and Reclamation on Clear Fork.
Aerial view of reclaimed mountaintop removal site near Logan
Event: Coal River Mountain Watch flyover. Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Aerial view of sludge impounded on Brushy Fork
The capacity of this sludge pond is projected at seven billion gallons, with the level of the sludge rising to 2,250 feet above sea level. At the time of this photo, the impoundment contained about 500,000 gall... More
Aerial view of mountaintop removal near Blair
Event: Coal River Mountain Watch flyover. Public domain photograph of quarry, mining industry, miners, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Coal river. Hazy Creek from the air. Southern West Virginia.
Event: Flyover of Mountaintop Removal and Reclamation Sites. "Following the rally in Cabin Creek, and a meeting of the Appalachian Voices board of directors, Hume Davenport, of Southwings in Tennessee, took boa... More
"Mountain Top Cemetery," spread out on field in front of Appalachian F...
The Mountain Top Cemetery comprises more than a thousand tombstones made of cardboard. Each is inscribed with the name of a stream buried under valley fill. Jackson has also created protest puppets and costumes... More
View of Arch Mineral Corporation's mountaintop removal and reclamation...
The Samples Mine was named for the St. Louis, Missouri-based company's executive, Eugene Samples. Though permit applications for mountaintop removal projects routinely attest to the absence of prime farmland in... More
Coal river. Fellow passengers on the flyover. Southern West Virginia.
Following the rally in Cabin Creek, and a meeting of the Appalachian Voices board of directors, Hume Davenport, of Southwings in Tennessee, took board members and residents of the Coal River Valley on a series ... More
View of Arch Mineral Corporation's mountaintop removal and reclamation...
The Samples Mine was named for the St. Louis, Missouri-based company's executive, Eugene Samples. Though permit applications for mountaintop removal projects routinely attest to the absence of prime farmland in... More
Aerial view of sludge impounded on Brushy Fork
The capacity of this sludge pond is projected at seven billion gallons, with the level of the sludge rising to 2,250 feet above sea level. At the time of this photo, the impoundment contained about 500,000 gall... More
"Mountain Top Cemetery," spread out on field in front of Appalachian F...
The Mountain Top Cemetery comprises more than a thousand tombstones made of cardboard. Each is inscribed with the name of a stream buried under valley fill. Jackson has also created protest puppets and costumes... More
Aerial shot of continuous belt-line conveyor
Event: Helicopter tour of Mountaintop Removal and Reclamation on Big Coal River watershed. "To better understand the method of mining known as "mountaintop removal and reclamation," Lyntha Eiler and I visited t... More
Bird's eye view of a "valley fill" at the Samples mountaintop removal ...
Event: Aerial tour of mountaintop removal and reclamation. Valley fills serve as sites for dumping the excess rocks and dirt excavated in order to retrieve multiple seams of coal. This shot affords a view of th... More
Aerial view of sludge dam at Elk Run, West Virginia
Event: Helicopter tour of Mountaintop Removal and Reclamation on Big Coal River watershed. Through mountaintop removal and reclamation, the coal industry is introducing several new landforms to the coal fields.... More
"Highland complex" on a mountaintop removal reclamation site
Event: Tour of Reclamation Sites in White Oak and Surrounding Area. "Stacy Edmunds conducted a tour of sites she'd been using in her field study for her master's thesis in ecology. As she went, she explained th... More
Aerial view of Catenary Coal's Samples Mine, a Mountaintop Removal pro...
Event: Helicopter tour of Coal River and Mountaintop Removal Sites. In the 1990s, mountaintop removal and reclamation became the mining method of choice for coal operators in central Appalachia. Mountaintop rem... More
Aerial view of Coal River Valley, following Route 3
Event: Helicopter tour of Mountaintop Removal and Reclamation on Big Coal River watershed. "To better understand the method of mining known as "mountaintop removal and reclamation," Lyntha Eiler and I visited t... More
Coal river. Dust in the distance. Southern West Virginia.
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 th... More
View of Arch Mineral Corporation's mountaintop removal and reclamation...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a quarry, excavation or mining site, free to use, no copyright restrictions.