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Tending the Commons: Folklife and Landscape in Southern West Virginia
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Item Title
Aerial view of Coal River Valley, following Route 3. [Photo]
Author/Creator
Photographer: Eiler, Lyntha Scott
Created/Published
October 26, 1995
Notes
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 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.
Note logging roads, stock piles of coal, and highwalls. Benny Campbell termed these "pre-law," because they were created by contour-mining, which pre-dated the passage of the 1977 Federal Surface Mining Control Reclamation Act (SCMRA)."
Subjects
Fall
October
"Pre-law" highwalls
Strip spoil
Mountaintop removal
Mining regulations
Pre-law mining
Photo
Ethnography
Photographs
Route 3
Boone County
Object Type
Medium
35 mm Color Slide
Language
English
Call Number
CRF-LE-C036-10
Part of
The Coal River Folklife Collection (AFC 1999/008)
Repository
Library of Congress, Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
Digital ID
afccmns lec03610
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/afccmns.lec03610