Both photos in this post have been stitched together from two photos. I had been trying to figure out a way to show the scope of mountaintop removal coal mining. The first photo shows 4 mountaintop removal sites plainly. The site in Clays Branch itself, you can see the mountain in the foreground is prepped for mining and mining has started on it’s summit. The mountain behind and to the left has just been prepped for blasting. Just like the clear cut mountain I was standing on when I took these photos. The mountain to the right and behind the foreground has already had a large portion of it’s top removed.
When one tugs at a single thing in nature; he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
