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These photographs were taken while researching mountain top removal in West Virginia.  I did several flyovers in a small plane to get a sense of the scale of destruction.  Flying low is the best way to assess the damage that has been caused by this radical form of strip mining that removes mountaintops in order to gain cheap easy access to thin seams of coal that lay buried beneath the forests and soil.  This is one of the most destructive means of extracting coal that has ever been used. The devastation is permanent. These photos are a prelude to my upcoming movie, “Goodbye Gauley Mountain: An Ecosexual Love Story.”