Kayford Mountain

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Photos by Vivian Stockman; Flyover courtesy SouthWings

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: Down along Clear Fork, things aren’t so quiet anymore.

: Open the high resolution image and zoom in to take a closer look.

: The cabins belonging to the Stanley Heirs — Larry Gibson’s relatives — are no longer peaceful retreats.

: Larry Gibson’s cabin is the group furthest at right, the one in the right of the “V” in the road.

: The big shovel is in the foreground.

: A blast will soon go off, shaking the community below.

: Click on this photo to open up the high resolution version, and check out the scale of this small section of the destruction.

: The cabins are perched on an ever-diminishing green island in a sea of extreme greed and lack of understanding of humanity’s life support systems manifested as mountaintop removal / valley fill coal mining.

: Down along Clear Fork, the mountain’s demise is painful to watch. The community is devastatingly altered, the land and waters and life they support impoverished.

: Another angle, more destruction.

: What does it say about human nature that we allow this kind of destruction to go on?

: If we don’t demand an end to mountaintop removal, coal companies will inflict this carnage upon every coal-bearing, verdant, richly-forested, water-blessed, community-supporting mountain.