Edited sentence: Furthermore, the coalition says that press releases and propaganda to the contrary cannot erase the truth about mountaintop-removal-and-valley-fill: the mountain tops are gone, the valleys are gone, the natural streams are altered or gone, the native trees are gone, and the soil is gone.Google Earth now has a wealth of information and images on mountaintop removal, including layers which can be viewed showing before removal and after removal.One of the coalitions of people that has formed to fight in order to save the Appalachian mountains from devastation is the Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition.Some of the mines cover thousands of acres, so their impact is startling.They point out that the devastation of the West Virginia mountains has reached unprecedented proportion.They say that the mountain tops, once removed, have to be put somewhere, and often they fill valleys