Joshua Gardner
Strip (surface, mountaintop removal) mining has a tremendous effect on the Appalachian landscape, economy, and population. These effects are often hidden by careful mining operators, who strategically limit access to the mine. Effects go beyond the immediate scarring of the landscape, particularly with "reclaiming" and mine waste. The following …
Effects of surface mining on fish and wildlife in Appalachia
This report on the effects of strip and surface mining on the fish and wildlife resources in eight Appalachian States is based in part on observation made during a tour of strip and surface mined area by the authors, as members of a team of specialist from six Federal agencies. Surface mining has caused extensive damage to fish and wildlife habitats …
Scientists Find Appalachian Mountaintop …
Mountaintop Mining. Mountaintop removal coal mining — one of the most notoriously destructive forms of mining — has torn through over 500 mountains across Appalachia, even as coal's dominance over …
Basic Information about Surface Coal Mining in Appalachia
As noted in EPA's 2011 report The Effects of Mountaintop Mines and Valley Fills on Aquatic Ecosystems of the Central Appalachian Coalfields, mountaintop mines and valley fills lead directly to five principal alterations of stream ecosystems:. springs and ephemeral, intermittent and perennial streams are permanently lost with the removal of …
The Consequences of Appalachian Coal Mining
Across anthracite communities, the landscape is blackened with coal pits. Underground mines have left infrastructure on the verge of collapse in anthracite towns like …
World of Change: Mountaintop Mining, West ia
Below the densely forested slopes of the Appalachian Mountains in southern West ia is a layer cake of thin coal seams. To uncover this coal profitably, mining companies engineer large—sometimes very large—surface mines. This time-series of images of a surface mine in Boone County, West ia, illustrates why this controversial mining …
Coal Controversy In Appalachia
In the meantime, remote-sensing data and images can be valuable tools for scientists, policymakers, and citizens who are interested in understanding and visualizing the widespread impact of this type of mining on the Appalachian landscape. An individual mine permit may only cover a few hundred to a few thousand acres, but mountaintop …
Mountaintop Removal 101 < Appalachian Voices
Many Appalachian coal seams lie deep beneath the surface of the mountains. Accessing these seams can require the removal of 600 feet or more of elevation. ... Roughly 45% of central Appalachian coal is from strip mining, and almost of that is mountaintop removal. Therefore, mountaintop removal coal provides roughly only 3% of our …
Reclaiming Appalachia: A Push to Bring Back Native Forests …
Other former mining sites that it is tackling include a 130-acre plot within the Flight 93 National Memorial near Shanksville, Pa., the former mine site where one of the four hijacked planes crashed on Sept. 11, 2001; a 110-acre site near Fishtrap Lake in Pike County, Ky.; and a 86-acre area within the Egypt Valley Wildlife Area in eastern Ohio ...
Coal
Surface Mining: Strip Mining Strip mining is used where coal seams are located very near the surface and can be removed in massive layers, or strips. Overburden is usually removed with explosives and towed away with some of the largest vehicles ever made. Dump trucks used at strip mines often weigh more than 300 tons and have more …
Old mining complex in the distressed Appalachian Mountains town of
Old mining complex in the distressed Appalachian Mountains town of Keystone in southern West ia; Names Highsmith, Carol M., 1946-, photographer ... (Some images display only as thumbnails outside the Library of Congress because of rights considerations, but you have access to larger size images on site.) ...
Strip Mining Appalachia's History
Strip Mining Appalachia's History. By scott parkin. We're starting hear rumblings that Arch Coal might be preparing to begin mountaintop removal coal mining operations on historic Blair Mountain. Blair Mountain is the site of the second largest armed insurrection in U.S. history (after the civil war.) In 1921, 10,000 miners fought an army ...
Coal's 'absolutely massive' environmental catastrophe
A view of the side of the mountain where Tracy Neece's brother owns property and a former strip mining operation failed to reclaim the land as promised. Photo by Alton Strupp/The Courier Journal ... an ecosystem ecologist and biogeochemist who has been studying Appalachian strip mines and working to understand the long-term …
Strip mining coal west ia Stock Photos and Images
RMW0MGEY – An aerial view from a aircraft show an Appalachia mountain being mined by the strip mining practice called 'Mountain Top Removal' in southern West ia, in …
A New Future for Mine Lands in the Central Appalachians
In Central Appalachian, mine lands can be restored to forests in ways that benefit biodiversity, carbon storage and local economies. ... Seeing an individual mine site gives part of the picture. But she says that still doesn't capture the extent of the issue. ... I live surrounded by strip mined land. I have walked it for 40 years.
Three Reasons Appalachia's Risk of Deadly Floods Keeps Rising
Studies suggest that strip mining affects the local mountain hydrology in many places. But there's relatively little research on the exact effects of mountaintop mining on Appalachian flooding.
Pennsylvania coal strip mining Stock Photo
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War on Poverty: Portraits From an Appalachian Battleground, 1964
Written By: Ben Cosgrove. The staggering range and sheer excellence of the late John Dominis' pictures—his Korean War coverage; his portraits of pop-culture icons like Sinatra, Redford and McQueen; his beautiful treatment of the "big cats" of Africa; his virile sports photography—place him firmly among the premier photojournalists of his day.
Appalachia's Strip-Mined Mountains Face A Growing Climate …
It found that a total of 1,400 square miles of Appalachia within the Ohio River basin has been scarred by strip mining, with the tops and sides of mountains …
We still blow up mountains to mine coal: Time to end the …
In fact, the West ia Department of Environmental Protection celebrated Earth Day by rubber-stamping a new strip-mining permit for an out-of-state coal company, slated to destroy 1,085 acres ...
The History Of Appalachia In 44 Revealing Photos
Moreover, the constant mining of coal in the region destroyed significant portions of the landscape — and the effects are still evident decades later. Coal mining was also subject to sudden fluctuations in demand, meaning paychecks were inconsistent. As the 19th century gave way to the 20th, these problems only got worse.
The Consequences of Appalachian Coal Mining
Remnants of strip mining are found across the once-stunning Appalachian landscape. "In a landscape decorated by the sight of blackened, flattened ground, where the trees haven't been able to grow back. ... Coal mining was the focal point of Appalachian culture and opportunity. When the industry evaporated from these communities, it left ...
The Women of Appalachia: One of our most powerful natural resources
In 1965, Ollie "Widow" Combs laid down in front of the bulldozer that was preparing to strip-mine her Kentucky farm. She spent Thanksgiving in jail, but her protests led to strip mining legislation in 1967 in the Kentucky General Assembly. Ten years later, Widow Combs was invited to the White House for the signing of the Surface Mining ...
Appalachia's Strip-Mined Mountains Face a Growing Climate …
To assess the threat posed by climate change in strip-mined Appalachia, InsideClimate News obtained digital mapping files from a 2017 climate change reportby the Army Corps on the Ohio River Basin. The document for the first time put 2,400 urban and rural communities across, from …
The Photographer Undoing the Myth of Appalachia
The photos and news segments they mined from the mountains galvanized efforts to improve standards of living across the United States—but they also ingrained in the American imagination an ...
How abandoned strip mines are being rescued by a field of …
Her new company, Appalachian Botanical, is now a 35-acre lavender farm and apiary located in the bowl of an old strip mine. It's a venture of second chances in more than one way.
West ia Startup Turns Coal Mines Into Lavender …
Called Appalachian Botanical Company, the company is growing lavender and raising bees on a former mining site, and then turning its harvests into essential oils, body creams, and other value ...
Scientists find Appalachian mountaintop removal coal mining …
Mountaintop removal coal mining — one of the most notoriously destructive forms of mining — has torn through over 500 mountains across Appalachia, even as coal's dominance over American energy supplies has faded in recent years.. Mountaintop removal is a form of strip mining. Instead of tunneling into the earth following coal seams, …
Mountaintop Mining Is Destroying More Land for Less Coal, …
Strip mining across the mountaintops of Appalachia is scarring as much as three times more land to get a ton of coal than just three decades ago, new research …
Strip Mining in the Appalachians | To the Point | KCRW
Strip mining has forever altered the Appalachian landscape by cutting off mountaintops to get at low sulfur deposits more cheaply and safely than underground mining allows. Now, after 20 years of dumping the debris into neighboring valleys, a federal judge has ruled that disposal violates the Clean Air Act, which prohibits depositing "waste" near waterways. …