More than i meg acres of wood convey been destroyed inward Appalachia past times mountaintop removal coal mining. This environmentally devastating degree of strip-mining has equally good permanently destroyed over 500 mountains too 2,700 mount ridge-tops inward the region.
You tin seek the huge scale of the devastation to the mount surroundings of Appalachia on SkyTruth's Mountain Top Removal interactive map. The map uses Google Map's aerial imagery to present the environmental deport upon of strip-mining inward Appalachia. It equally good allows you lot to persuasion how that environmental devastation has progressed over the end xxx years.
To practice the map SkyTruth examined satellite imagery of the expanse dating dorsum to 1976. SkyTruth searched for prove of strip-mining inward the satellite imagery past times looking for mines then large that they crossed ridge tops too impacted a pregnant expanse of ridge top. You tin persuasion the results of this query past times using the five yearly active mining layers on the SkyTruth map. These layers let you lot to persuasion how strip-mining has progressed inward the portion since 1985.
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