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Dropping The Ball & Moving Out?

Denny — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 22:42:00 +0000

First I have to apologize for dropping the ball. Last week on the Outdoor Bloggers Summit blog, Kristine issued a challenge entitled Write About The Good. I committed to writing a post for the challenge.

From the OBS – “… encouraging all bloggers to find one local, grassroots program that is supported by people who [...]

Bringing Down The Mountains

Denny — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 04:05:00 +0000

Bringing Down the Mountains:The Impact of Mountaintop Removal Surface Coal Mining on Southern West Virginia Communities, 1970-2004

by Shirley L. Stewart Burns

Dissertation submitted to the Eberly College of Arts and Sciences at West Virginia University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in History.

“In 1970, 45,261 West [...]

Template Malfunction

Denny — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 03:49:00 +0000

I don’t know what is going on with Blogger but as regular visitors can tell this blog format has changed again. It wasn’t something I wanted to do and is actually my third attempt tonight at a stable template.

The post title fonts and a few other things went haywire. Two link lists were lost [...]

Honey, don’t forget the dust masks.

Denny — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 19:04:00 +0000

Imagine having to put dust masks on your weekly shopping list.

What do you think caused this cloud of dust? Maybe it was an explosion on a nearby mountaintop removal site. Or, maybe there is a strong wind coming up the valley. Maybe it is just a fluke or anomaly.

None of the above. [...]

Wasting Away

Denny — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 16:01:00 +0000

A few days ago I wrote this post showing downed trees for a power line right-of-way cleared by Massey Energy.

The right-of-way is located on the Clear Fork side of Kayford Mountain. These photos detail more specifically what it is that bothered me about the clear cut.

The power line is laying in [...]

So You Wanna Be A Seng Hunter

Denny — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 15:00:00 +0000

There are four stalks of ginseng in this photo. Can you spot them?

When I am in the woods anytime from spring to early autumn I can’t help but look for various types of plants. The main one being ginseng. With years of actively hunting the various plant species it is hard to go [...]

Walker Machinery Does It Again

Denny — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 18:27:00 +0000

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 [...]

Good Code Gone Bad

Denny — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 23:19:00 +0000

This is a blogging community FYI.

A couple of days ago I started experiencing unexplainable popups on this blog. I’m not a fan of popups and I surely don’t want somebody else seeing them in relation to my blog. At first I thought it was an issue with Blogger itself. Simply because it came right [...]

Almost… Wordless Wednesday

Denny — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 04:01:00 +0000

———When one tugs at a single thing in nature; he finds it attached to the rest of the world.

BackWoods Drifter Photo Gallery

Denny — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 00:50:00 +0000

The whole time I have been blogging – I have had a problem finding ways to display the photos I take because I take a lot of photos.

My latest trip to Kayford Mountain brought the problem into the light once again. As I stated in a previous post – I took 133 photos the [...]