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  • History & Social Geography
    • History of Coal River Part 1
    • History of Coal River Part 2
    • Glimpse into a Coal River family, mid-20th Century
    • Absentee Land Ownership
    • Outmigration
    • Changes in Lifestyle
  • Land Use
    • 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
    • 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
    • Prenter and surrounding communities
    • Water Quality
    • Coal Slurry
    • Health
    • Community Responses
    • Stories from Prenter
    • News
  • Community Resource Mapping
    • Community Resource Mapping
    • Children Are the Future of the Coal River Valley
    • Bill Lucas
    • Chronicling the Coal River Valley's Coal-Bound History
    • Clear Fork Couple
    • Connie and Terry Dillon
    • Danny Cook and Mack, James Creek
    • Debbie Jarrell
    • Delbert and Judy Gunnoe
    • Elmer Mays, Horse Creek
    • Frankie Mooney
    • Gary and Barb Anderson
    • Jimmy Platt
    • Junior Walk
    • Justin Wills
    • Kathleen Dickens
    • Kay and Danny Howell
    • Kendra Dickens
    • Lonnie Burnside
    • PROJECT: Build It Up, WV! Summer youth program
    • PROJECT: Community Greenhouse
    • PROJECT: First solar thermal installation in the region
    • PROJECT: Greenhouse Gardens
    • PROJECT: Mural project in Whitesville
    • PROJECT: The Tadpole Project
    • Rachel Bey
    • Ray and Lottie Cottrell
    • Sandy Simmons
    • Shannon Dickens
    • Sharon Thompson
    • Sheila and Natasha Walk
    • Sherry Geisler
    • Wilma Cook
  • What is Mountaintop Removal?
    • Introduction
    • Environmental Impacts
    • Legislation, Permits, Regulations
  • Renewable Energy on Coal River Mountain
    • 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
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  • Brushy Fork Sludge Impoundment
  • Community letter to W.Va. Gov. Joe Manchin
  • Organizing for Wind Power
  • Blair Mountain Resources
  • Seasonal Round of Land Use
   Lesson Plans  
  • Land Use
  • History & Social Geography
  • A Community & Strip Mining
  • What is Mountaintop Removal?
  • Public Health & Coal Slurry
  • Renewable Energy on Coal River Mountain
  • Public Health Impacts of Coal Mining, and Implications for Health Policy
  • Community Resource Mapping
  • Blair Mtn. Lesson Plans
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  • Educational Resources
  • Activist Resources
  • Blair Mountain Resources
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