Join us for any or all of these exciting events. All will take place on Saturday, October 2. Organizations planning to have displays include the Shepherd Environmental Organization, the West Virginia Division of Environmental Protection, the Audubon Society of the Eastern Panhandle, the West Virginia Division of Natural Resources, the West Virginia Highlands Conservancy, and Four Seasons Books.
Admission is free.
After they extract the coal from the earth, mining companies are allowed to dump the leftovers into adjacent valleys, covering up streambeds. Jackson got the names of buried streams from a list kept by the state Division of Environmental Protection. She's made at least 900 tombstones. They will all be on display on McMurran Lawn throughout the day. An Appalachian Mountain Ecology .