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• History & Social Geography
• Maps:
• Coal River Mountain
• Audio:
• Video:
• Muddy Water (external link)
• Lesson Plan
• Articles:
• History of Coal River Part 1
• History of Coal River Part 2
• Absentee Land Ownership
• Outmigration
• Changes in Lifestyle
• Land Use
• Maps:
• Aerial
• Aerial with cemeteries and structures
• Brushy Fork Impoundment
• Proposed Mines
• Audio:
• Interview
• Video:
• Blasting on Coal River Mountain near Brushy Fork Impoundment
• Lesson Plan
• Articles:
• Current Land Use on Coal River Mountain
• Community Land Use in Coal River Valley
• Undergound Mining
• Forest Resources and Timbering
• The Brushy Fork Slurry Impoundment
• Community letter to W.Va. Gov. Joe Manchin
• A Community & Strip Mining
• Maps:
• Aerial
• Permitted MTR Mines
• Audio:
• Interview
• Video:
• Ed Wiley interview, black bears bulldozed at MTR sites
• Ivan Stiefel, Brower Youth Award winner for organizing with Mountain Justice Spring Break
• Lesson Plan
• Articles:
• Near the mouth of Hazy
• Marsh Fork Elementary
• Absentee Land Ownership
• Hazy and Shumates Today
• Update: lawsuits, possible new location for school
• Public Health & Coal Slurry
• Maps:
• Aerial
• Mine Data
• Audio:
• Video:
• Prenter, W.Va. and poisoned drinking water
• Changing a water filter in Prenter
• Well water changes penny's color in minutes
• Lesson Plan
• Articles:
• Prenter and surrounding communities
• Water Quality
• Coal Slurry
• Health
• Community Responses
• Stories from Prenter
• News

• What is Mountaintop Removal?
• Maps:
• Coal River Watershed
• Audio:
• Interview
• Video:
• Buffalo Creek Disaster
• Lesson Plan
• Articles:
• Introduction
• Coal Formation and Extraction Process
• Environmental Impacts
• Legislation, Permits, Regulations
• Case Studies
• Renewable Energy on Coal River Mountain
• Maps:
• Turbine Locations
• WindLogics Data
• Wind Feasibility
• Wind v MTR
• Audio:
• Interview
• Video:
• Ernie Thompson on Coal River Wind
• Lorelei Scarboro on Coal River Wind
• Blasting on Coal River Mountain near Brushy Fork Impoundment
• Sherry Geisler on Coal River Wind
• Tennessee Ernie Ford sings "16 Tons"
• Lesson Plan
• Articles:
• Introduction to Coal River Wind
• The Threat of MTR on Coal River Mountain
• The Coal River Mountain Wind Campaign
• Wind vs. MTR for Coal River Mountain: The Economic Debate
• Wind vs. MTR for Coal River Mountain: Energy and Climate
• A "Just" Transition
• Update: Blasting has begun on Coal River Mountain
• Organizing for Wind Power