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To: Ish who wrote (249747)	4/23/2002 1:12:45 AM
From: Krowbar	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

< Once the coal is mined they're graded, seeded and turned over to the IDNR. 10s of thousands of acres of deep clear lakes and wildlife habitat. > Hmmm. Your description doesn't match that of the people who actually live here. You know, I think that they may know more about the effects of strip mining better than you or me. "West Virginia has been mined since the mid-18th century, but nobody has seen annihilation like this before. In the past 20 years, environmentalists claim, 500 square miles of the state have been stripped and gutted for their coal. In the most apocalyptic form of strip mining, called mountaintop removal, whole peaks are razed to extract layers of relatively clean-burning low-sulfur coal, while the excess rock and earth "overburden" is dumped into the valleys. Hundreds of miles of streams have been buried under these "valley fills," and dozens of mountains have been flattened into synthetic prairies. "http://www.motherjones.com/mother_jones/JA99/mountaintop.html Del

To: Ish who wrote (249747)	4/23/2002 1:28:43 AM
From: Krowbar	Respond to of 769670

Here's an aerial view of one of the mountaintops being removed, with "reclaimed mines in the background. I am having trouble finding the "deep clear lakes and wildlife habitat" that you referred to in the reclaimed areas of the photos. I imagine that wildlife does once in a while accidently cross one of the reclaimed areas from the surrounding forests that have yet to be improved by the coal companies. memory.loc.gov@field(TITLE+@od1(Aerial+view+of+Mountaintop+removal+and+reclamation+landscapes++[Photo])) Here's a site where you can select a retirement home for yourself in one of the paradise reclaimed areas that you refer to. lcweb2.loc.gov Del