Lost Mountain

A Year in the Vanishing Wilderness Radical Strip Mining and the Devastation of Appalachia

Ranked #65 in Mining

A new form of strip mining has caused a state of emergency for the Appalachian wilderness and the communities that depend on it-a crisis compounded by issues of government neglect, corporate hubris, and class conflict. In this powerful call to arms, Erik Reece chronicles the year he spent witnessing the systematic decimation of a single mountain and offers a landmark defense of a national treasure threatened with extinction. less

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