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Wind River Mine Site, Boone County, WV
Feb 28, 2006
Photos by Vivian Stockman

"Reclamation" at the Wind River mine site has been going on for 23 years. 

From mixed mesophytic forest (anywhere from 60 to 80 species of trees and an understory of wildflowers and medicinals like ginseng and black cohosh) to this. That's "reclamation" folks.

Come on pine tree, grow, grow.  You can do it, right?  Well, we will wait a few centuries and see.

OVEC organizer Maria Gunnoe explains the truth about "reclamation" to a film crew.

Another pine tee struggles in the rocky "soil."

Foreground: "reclaimed" mined area. Mid-ground: Mixed mesophytic forest...and the beginning of another mountaintop removal mine.

Soil? Not. Reclaimed? Not.

Bye-bye mixed mesophytic forest. Hello wasteland. 


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