March « 2008 « BackWoods Drifter

What we’ve got here…

Posted by Denny Tyler, on March 26th, 2008

… is a failure to communicate.

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I look at mountaintop removal as this giant beast with teeth that can grind boulders into valley fill. I look at all the grassroots and the environmental groups as a bunch of bees swarming the beasts head. As long as the beast can keep swatting them away he [...]

Ignorance of the people…

Posted by Denny Tyler, on March 24th, 2008

… brought to you by the coal industry.

The more I talked with people in Drews Creek the more it became obvious they didn’t have a clue about the new mountaintop removal site. It was just like one day there is peace and quiet and the next day your picking broken picture frames up off [...]

Now It’s Personal – MTR

Posted by Denny Tyler, on March 23rd, 2008

A few weeks ago I wrote a post entitled Bolt Mountain, Under Attack!! That may have been a little dramatic at the time. Mainly because I wasn’t 100% sure if what I was seeing was a mountaintop removal site. It was too far in the distance. Friday, with my friend from Ohio, I went searching [...]

Mountain Getaway

Posted by Denny Tyler, on March 23rd, 2008

What can I say besides – I needed that.

My friend Dennie arrived from Ohio Thursday evening. I must be in Mother Natures good graces. It was nasty the day before he got here – it warmed up into the high 60′s the first day of his visit and the low 60′s the next. Today, [...]

Redirecting & Heading For The Hills

Posted by Denny Tyler, on March 19th, 2008

I finally got the redirection to work – somewhat. It still doesn’t go to the corresponding post from a post on the old blog but from an individual post on the old blog will bring you to this sites main page. I can live with that.

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I probably won’t be posting to the blog [...]