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Photo, Print, Drawing Aerial view of Mountaintop removal and reclamation

About this Item

Title

  • Aerial view of Mountaintop removal and reclamation

Names

  • Eiler, Lyntha Scott (Photographer)

Created / Published

  • October 26, 1995

Headings

  • -  Fall
  • -  Mountaintop removal
  • -  October
  • -  Reclamation
  • -  "Pre-law" highwalls
  • -  Strip spoil
  • -  Blasting technology
  • -  Photographs
  • -  Ethnography
  • -  West Virginia -- Boone County
  • -  West Virginia -- Boone County -- Sylvester

Genre

  • Photographs
  • Ethnography

Notes

  • -  Event: Helicopter tour of Mountaintop Removal and Reclamation on Big Coal River watershed.
  • -  "To learn more about the cultural dimensions of "mountaintop removal and reclamation" and the new landform complexes the coal industry is creating in the coal fields of central Appalachia, 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 the drilling rig, upper right, preparing for blasting apart the mountain with dynamite, and the "pre-law" highwalls, left and right."

Medium

  • 35 mm Color Slide

Call Number/Physical Location

  • AFC 1999/008: CRF-LE-C040-07

Source Collection

  • Coal River Folklife Collection (AFC 1999/008)

Repository

  • American Folklife Center

Digital Id

Online Format

  • image

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Credit line

Coal River Folklife Project collection (AFC 1999/008), American Folklife Center, Library of Congress

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Chicago citation style:

Eiler, Lyntha Scott. Aerial view of Mountaintop removal and reclamation. West Virginia Sylvester Boone County, 1995. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/cmns000124/.

APA citation style:

Eiler, L. S. (1995) Aerial view of Mountaintop removal and reclamation. West Virginia Sylvester Boone County, 1995. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/cmns000124/.

MLA citation style:

Eiler, Lyntha Scott. Aerial view of Mountaintop removal and reclamation. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/cmns000124/>.