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Tending the Commons: Folklife and Landscape in Southern West Virginia
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Item Title
The confluence of Drews Creek and Peachtree Creek. [Photo]
Author/Creator
Photographer: Eiler, Lyntha Scott
Created/Published
October 26, 1995
Notes
These are aerials of some of the Coal River communities and sites of our field research, including the Left and Right hand Forks of Rock Creek (which Benny Campbell called "a pretty flat valley, for this country"), Drews Creek, Peachtree Creek, and Naoma. The highwall at the head of Peachtree and Drews Creek exemplifies what is known as "pre-law mining," that is, strip mining practiced before the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 required operators to restore mountains to their "approximate original contour." Note that the undisturbed area in this form of mining is above the mined area, whereas in mountaintop removal, the undisturbed ground is below the area to be replanted with non-native species (see study by Edmunds and Loucks).
Event: Helicopter tour of Coal River and Mountaintop Removal Sites.
Subjects
Fall
October
Peachtree Creek
Drews Creek
Spring Mountain
Bolt Mountain
Guyandotte Mountain
Cherry Pond Mountain
Photo
Ethnography
Photographs
Naoma, WV
Object Type
Medium
35 mm Color Slide
Language
English
Call Number
CRF-LE-C049-06
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 lec04906
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/afccmns.lec04906