Strip mining has forever altered the Appalachian landscape by cutting off mountaintops to get at low sulfur deposits more cheaply and safely than underground mining allows. Now, after 20 years of ...
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This Kentucky land was devastated by strip mining—now, activists want to bring the bison back
On a freezing cold Wednesday afternoon in eastern Kentucky, Taysha DeVaughan joined a small gathering at the foot of a reclaimed strip mine to celebrate a homecoming. “It’s a return of an ancestor,” ...
PERRY COUNTY, Ky. (WKYT) - Two people have been arrested after a deadly shooting in Perry County. Kentucky State Police say the situation unfolded along Polly Hollow Road at the site of an abandoned ...
Residents of Roxana, Kentucky, are battling it out over whether to transform a piece of land, which formerly housed a strip mine, into a federal penitentiary or to rewild it and let the bison roam ...
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