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  • Looking West over West Virginia from the Kayford Mountain site - Ground Zero for the Mountaintop Removal movement. This is considered topsoil in the minds of the coal companies and this site is now in a "reclaimed state".
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  • The remnants of Kayford Mountain  fallen away from the one private land holdout in the vicinity. The wooded area in the center of photo is the Stanley Heirs Park and buffering acreage. The massive cone-shaped valley fill at bottom is from the upper part of the mountain, filling in the mountain streams with overburden and endless tons of blasted debris.
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  • Carol and Larry Gibson's cabin on his beloved Kayford Mountain. The late Larry Gibson was president of the Keeper of the Mountains Foundation and a lifetime member of the Sierra Club, as well as a CNN Hero of the Year. He would stay here during his return visits to Kayford Mountain, his family land for 200 years. Ground Zero for the Mountaintop Removal movement.
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  • The forested ridge in center of photo is the Stanley Heirs Park and the remaining 50 acres of the Stanley property. The Kayford Mountain Festival is held right where the small structures are seen peaking out of the tree canopy. This remaining ridge of the mountain was a low saddle between two higher peaks that are now eradicated.
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  • The entrance to the Stanley Heirs Park on Kayford Mountain, West Virginia. The park is a beautiful enclave of off-the-grid cabins and trailers sitting on the remaining ridge of Kayford Mountain. Family land for 200 years.
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  • A final look at the destroyed flanks of Kayford Mountain before heading back home, yearning to return next year for another Kayford Mountain Festival and celebration with dedicated activist and amazing local residents.
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  • A leveled mountain with valley fills hangs above a community that reverberates with daily dynamite blasts - a common occurrence for many of the mountain communities.
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  • Looking down, instead of up to the top of Kayford Mountain on the previously mined sites adjacent to the preserved Stanley property and it's annual gathering and celebration and homebase to the Keeper of the Mountains.
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  • A typical aerial view while flying over the West Virginia mountains. The top soil gets pushed down into the valleys, covering streams, then the land is blasted over and over to get to the coal seams. The remaining coal industry "top soil" that they are supposed to replace gets sprayed with Hydro-Seed and is more reminiscent to Rocky Mountain talus slopes and scree fileds.
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  • A typical aerial view while flying over the West Virginia mountains. The topsoil gets pushed down into the valleys, covering streams, then the land is blasted over and over to get to the coal seams. The remaining "top soil" that gets sprayed with Hydro-Seed is more representative of Rocky Mountain talus slopes and scree fields.
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  • The remnants of Kayford Mountain  fallen away from the one private land holdout in the vicinity. The wooded area in the center of photo is the Stanley Heirs Park and buffering acreage. A true bright spot in the Appalachian Mountains.
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  • Looking south from the remnants of Kayford Mountain, with a flattened summit that now sits 500 feet lower than before. This is the overlook that Larry Gibson showed many people to educate them on the practices of mountaintop removal.
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  • Looking south from the remnants of Kayford Mountain, with a flattened summit that now sits 500 feet lower than before. This is the overlook that Larry Gibson showed many people to educate them on the destructive and contaminating practices of mountaintop removal.
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  • Keeper of the Mountain Elise Keaton Liegel gets help from Alex and Daniel Mullins drawing the raffle prizes. Along with their parents, Nick and Rusti, the Mullins family is traveling part of the country on their "Breaking Clean" tour.
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  • A lone cemetery is now and island in the sky. Many individual graves in West Virginia have been pushed down the mountain along with the overburden. The cemetery now sits alone on a knoll amidst the destruction of open mines.
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  • A lone cemetery is now and island in the sky. Many individual graves in West Virginia have been pushed down the mountain along with the overburden. The cemetery now sits alone on a knoll amidst the destruction of open mines and a couple of catchment basins with thin liners.
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  • A once lush, forested ridge/valley massif is now a large valley fill from the blasted mountain above.
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  • Stanley Heirs Park during Kayford Mountain celebration on the Fourth of July weekend.
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  • A large valley fill from the blasted mountain above, complete with the "reclaimed streams" on each side going down to a catchment basin.
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  • A complete valley fill at the base of Kayford Mountain. This is the Corps idea of "streams" on either side of the "reclaimed area. The scale is tremendous as many of those trees stand 70 ft. tall.
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  • The Stanley Heirs Park and the remaining 50 acres of the Stanley property on Kayford Mountain is seen in the Right/Middle of the photo.Two proud American flags fly on tall poles in the small horizontal clearing in near center.
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  • The Stanley Heirs Park and the remaining 50 acres of the Stanley property on Kayford Mountain is seen in the Right/Middle of the photo.
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  • The cabin stage beside the camping area of Stanley Heirs Park on Kayford Mountain, West Virginia.
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  • Stanley Heirs Park during Kayford Mountain celebration on the Fourth of July weekend. The sweet batik was one of the raffle items!
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  • Thanks to Appalachian Voices, one of the great non-profit organizations that are "Speaking up for the Mountains" and many of the issues that affect our water and air quality in the Appalachians and our Piedmont Plateau.
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  • A close-up of a large Sludge Impoundment that holds billions of gallons of coal slurry.
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  • The remoteness of West Virgina hides the majority of the Mountaintop Removal sites from the general public, unlike many of the open mines in Kentucky and Virginia which can been seen from adjacent highways. An aerial perspective truly reveals how extensive the open mine sites are across tens of thousands of acres.
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  • An active mining site shows the various stages of operations. The overburden will get pushed down into the valley, then the blasting will begin in search of coal seams.
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  • Wild and Wonderful West Virginia is loosing part of it's namesake. A regional flyover south of Charleston will reveal numerous mountaintop removal sites on a grand scale. This coal extraction process  has drastic impact on the local communities air and water quality, among other negative impacts and inconveniences.
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  • The Sludge Impoundment that holds billions of gallons of coal slurry sits above the previous Marsh Fork Elementary School (just below coal silo). A new school has now been rebuilt in a new location.
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