The picture in this post has it all. Horses, meadows, a barn, a creek, trees, mountains, a valley fill, and the accused culprit of the valley fill – power lines.
The active valley fill is in Clear Fork, WV. The site is actually a part of the Kayford Mountain MTR site. Believe me when I tell you the photo does not do the size of this fill justice. It is huge. The whole face of the site is nothing but gravel – large and small. When they are finished filling this valley they will come back and spray hydro-seed on it and call it reclaimed. They can get by with that particular atrocity because the hydro-seed would flourish just as well on the power pole or the horse for that matter.
Without getting into a big description of hydro-seed, suffice it to say – it has been termed grass seed on steroids.
This is the new face of West Virginia. It is definitely – Almost Heaven, West Virginia.
When one tugs at a single thing in nature; he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
