If the warm rains and the Easter Lillies were not an indication of spring, then the announcement of local ramp (wild leek) dinners would be.
Delbert Freewill Baptist Church will be having their Annual Ramp Dinner the 19th day of April 2008 at Drews Creek of Naoma. The dinner will be from noon to 7pm.
Naoma is [...]
In the beginning, there was a blog… and then another… and another.
I was almost 30 days short of having a blog on Blogger for one year. Before that I had a blog on the Lycos network for nearly a year and a half. With this newest move, I look back at how this blog came [...]
If you came here from the old blog then you are pretty much aware of what is going on. If you were redirected here this is a new blog and the posts have been imported from Blogger. So if you read back through them some might not make a whole hell of a lot of [...]
First I have to apologize for dropping the ball. Last week on the Outdoor Bloggers Summit blog, Kristine issued a challenge entitled Write About The Good. I committed to writing a post for the challenge.
From the OBS - “… encouraging all bloggers to find one local, grassroots program that is supported by people who hunt [...]
Bringing Down the Mountains:The Impact of Mountaintop Removal Surface Coal Mining on Southern West Virginia Communities, 1970-2004
by Shirley L. Stewart Burns
Dissertation submitted to the Eberly College of Arts and Sciences at West Virginia University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in History.
“In 1970, 45,261 West Virginia jobs were [...]
I don’t know what is going on with Blogger but as regular visitors can tell this blog format has changed again. It wasn’t something I wanted to do and is actually my third attempt tonight at a stable template.
The post title fonts and a few other things went haywire. Two link lists were lost and [...]
Imagine having to put dust masks on your weekly shopping list.
What do you think caused this cloud of dust? Maybe it was an explosion on a nearby mountaintop removal site. Or, maybe there is a strong wind coming up the valley. Maybe it is just a fluke or anomaly.
None of the above. This cloud [...]
A few days ago I wrote this post showing downed trees for a power line right-of-way cleared by Massey Energy.
The right-of-way is located on the Clear Fork side of Kayford Mountain. These photos detail more specifically what it is that bothered me about the clear cut.
The power line is laying in this ravine. The [...]
There are four stalks of ginseng in this photo. Can you spot them?
When I am in the woods anytime from spring to early autumn I can’t help but look for various types of plants. The main one being ginseng. With years of actively hunting the various plant species it is hard to go into [...]
For some reason, anybody high up in the food chain at Walker Machinery voicing their ridiculous opinions on mountaintop removal can bring the rant right out of me.
I’ve said it in the past, I’m all for one’s own opinion. The difference here is the opinions of Walker Machinery are motivated strictly by the bottom line. [...]
