Wastewater from the mines sometimes also enters local water supplies. The new model also tells a story about the changing economy of coal production.
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Energy firms began surface mining after the valuable underground coal seams in Appalachia were more or less mined out. After getting the richer coal close to the surface, they have had to go after smaller, less productive coal seams on the mountain ridges, expending more effort and blasting deeper. The numbers from the map bear this out. By comparing data on regional coal production to the amount of land mined, they found that in the s and s it took about square feet of land to produce a ton of coal.
By , producing a ton of coal took around square feet. As of , it took around square feet. Co-author Christian Thomas of SkyTruth says in a press release that the maps can also serve as a baseline to help measure how well reclamation efforts—like replanting forests or turning former mine sites into parks—are progressing. Subscribe or Give a Gift. Who is the New Jamestown Skeleton?
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Science Age of Humans. The Art of Secrets and Surveillance. At the Smithsonian Visit. Photos Submit to Our Contest. Photo of the Day. This book will be invaluable to anyone considering a journey north, or south, of their own. A Woman's Guide has managed to combine all three of those genres into one excellent narrative that depicts Hall's experience of hiking the trail with her boyfriend from Georgia to Maine and also discusses the trail's historical background as well as the issues it currently faces. Although Hall may get up on the environmental soapbox a little too often, her narrative keeps the reader turning the pages.
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First of all I wouldn't expect someone to go climb Mt. Everest and complain about the cold, the wind, or the snow. Such is the price of admission.
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Likewise the AT comes with a price. This book was an exercise of endurance that pushed pain tolerance to the maximum.
I began reading this book with great eagerness and expectation. My desire was quickly doused by Ms. Hall's incessant whining about all things A-Z that I would think would be expected from such a journey. Does this indicate poor planning on her part? I understand that it was not her idea or "dream" to walk the trail. I suspect that she had ulterior motives for going. But the way she describes it makes the journey sound like a prison sentence.
So much was left out-except her constant whining. She complains about other day hikers i. If she wanted that much of a wilderness experience then why follow a trail? How is she concidered a thru-hiker? When the going got tough she got going- off the trail that is. Mom and dad picked her up and drove her to philly to a nice warm bed, hot meals, and nights on south street.
She recouped then returned to finish. If I start the Boston marathon and run ten miles, stop and then come back a week later and run the rest of the course, did I run the Boston marathon? Let's be real, she was a sectional walker as she left the trail more than once.
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No, I think the real book here should have come from craig her partner or one of the people that live on the trail that received brief mention. I did enjoy trail history and the political struggles. I learned not to hike with a dog or a whiney partner. One person found this helpful. Hall's book is generally entertaining in her descriptions of trail life, but her narrative doesn't accomplish much beyond telling well-worn stories of trail life though there are a handful of notable exceptions.
I'm fine with a prosaic description of her experiences, though.
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What I could not handle were her naive, ill-conceived rantings about issues that affect the AT acid rain, user fees, species reintroduction, etc. Her research for these essays appears to have involved talking to one individual and presenting that person's views as gospel. The net result is a collection of horribly oversimplified views on terribly complex issues.
Her position is simply that we should stop polluting and let nature take its course. There's nothing on how we should make that happen or anything useful like that. What bothered me the most, though, is that she takes the aggravating stance of claiming how close to nature she is, as well as how she's "fighting for survival" on the trail, but never rectifies that stance with all the man-made products fleece, Gore-Tex, nylon, etc.
Overall, the book is not as bad as I make it out to be. Her narrative was generally interesting enough to keep me entertained, but I had to fight the regular, frustrating tangents she consistently presented.