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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • A close-up of a large Sludge Impoundment that holds billions of gallons of coal slurry.
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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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  • Portable solar panels and battery bank on site during the first ever solar-powered event in West Virginia. It created plenty of clean power for music during the day and lights at night.
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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 large Sludge Impoundment (Coal Slurry Pond) sits above a valley fill which hangs above another community below. Other Mountaintop Removal sites are seen in the distance.
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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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  • 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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  • 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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