The entire first two days basically followed the same trail as mapped in this post. The difference being my friend and I camped before the climb to the top of the mountain.
My last trip into Spring Hollow, I was riding the ATV my friend was on this time. At that time I had reservations about [...]
Now it all makes perfect sense. I had been trying to do an interview with a real bug to try and dispute Walker Machinery’s cartoon talking bug commercials for quite some time now. As you can see from this photo, this particular bug was having no part of it. Every time I attempted to ask [...]
Yesterday I wrote a post describing my plans to back off in my battle against mountaintop removal coal mining. Today I am recanting that statement.
There will be no threat you can make that will cause me to back off. I feel like a weakling for even considering it. You can email me all you want, [...]
Be forewarned - this is a rant post.
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I think the entire planet could use an attitude adjustment.
Something that has become painfully apparent recently and it is something I have thought about in the past. The general I don’t care mentality of the public. If it is not happening between home and work and directly affecting [...]
… 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 can go [...]
… 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 the [...]
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. [...]
I hear it all the time - I’ve never seen so many deer and bear in this area.
I wonder what those same people thought would happen when you destroy thousands of acres of natural wildlife habitat. When bears come out of the mountains to eat out of garbage cans and dumpsters then there is a [...]
Continue reading about Animal Migration & Mountaintop Removal
One thing a reader to my blog needs to keep in mind when I talk about mountaintop removal I’m looking at it not only as a resident of the coal fields but also as an avid hiker. This blog is entitled The BackWoods Drifter because I love to hike West Virginia’s backwoods. Being as that [...]
I’ve done a marginal amount of talking concerning the Marsh Fork school. The school is highly controversial. It is actually controversial in a couple of different aspects.
The first being it’s vicinity to a coal silo and prep plant. The plant generates a lot of airborne coal dust and they actually spray chemicals on the coal [...]
