Citations & Resources
Arnold, M.C., Ty Lindberg, Y. Liu, K. Porter, H. Hsu-Kim, D. Hinton and R. Di Giulio. 2014. “Bioaccumulation and speciation of selenium in fish and insects collected from a mountaintop removal coal mining-impacted stream in West Virginia.”
Baller, Mark and Pantilat, Leor J. 2007. “Defenders of Appalachia: The Campaign to Eliminate Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining and the Role of Public Justice.” Environmental Law. 37: 629.
Becker, Dogulas, Petra Wood, Michael Strager and Christine Mazzarella. 2014. “Impacts of mountaintop mining on terrestrial ecosystem integrity: identifying landscape thresholds for avian species in the central Appalachians, United States.” Landscape Ecology.
Beggs, Paul. 2012. “Horizontal cliffs: mountaintop mining and climate change.” Biodiversity Conservation. 21:3731-3734.
Bowe, Rebecca. 2006. “In Defense of Mountains: On the Frontlines Against Destructive Mining.” Environment Magazine. 19-20.
Burns, Shirley L. Stewart. 2005. “Bringing Down the Mountains: The Impact of Mountaintop Removal Surface Coal Mining on Southern West Virginia Communities, 1970-2004. Morgantown W.V.: West Virginia University Press.
Burke, Roger, Ken Fritz, Chris Barton, Brent Johnson, Stephanie Fulton, Dean Hardy, David Word and Jeff Jack. 2014. “Impacts of Mountain top Removal and Valley Fill Coal Mining on C and N Processing in Terrestrial Soils and Headwater Streams.” Water Air Soil Pollution.
Costanza R, d’Arge R, de Groots R et al. 1997. “The value of the world’s ecosystem services and natural capital.” Nature 387:253–260
Casto, Bruce; Sharma, Smita; Fisher, James and Knobloch, Thomas. 2009. ¨Oral Cancer in Appalachia.” Journal of Health Care for the Pore and Underserved. 20: 274-285.
Collinge, Sharon K. 1996. “Ecological consequences of habitat fragmentation: implications for landscape architecture and planning.” Landscape and Urban Planning 36: 59-77.
Collinge, Sharon K. 1998. “Spatial arrangement of habitat patches and corridors: clues from ecological field experiments.” Landscape and Urban Planning. 42:157-168.
Conrad, P 2008. "The Impact of Surface Applied Mulches on Selected Physical Properties of Reclaimed Mountaintop Removal Sites". International journal of mining, reclamation and environment (1748-0930), 22 (3), p. 222.
Davidson, Debra . 2012. "The double diversion: mapping its roots and projecting its future in environmental studies". Journal of environmental studies and sciences (2190-6483), 2 (1), p. 69.
Dittman, Elizabeth Katherine. 2010. Manganese and mountaintop removal mining: bioaccumulation and biological effects.”
Engeln, O. D. 1943. “Problems with Geomorphology.” Nature. Vol 151: 598-601
Eller, Ronald. 2008. “Uneven Ground: Appalachia Since 1945.” The University of Kentucky Press. Lexington, KY.
Evans, Sam. 2010. “Voices from the Desecrated Places: A Journey to End Mountaintop Removal Mining.” Harvard Law Review. 34: 51.
Fisher, Stephen. 1993. “Fighting Back in Appalachia: Traditions of Resistance and Change.” Temple University Press. Philadelphia, PA.
Fisher, Stephen and Barbra Ellen Smith. 2012. “Transforming Places: Lessons From Appalachia.” University of Illinois Press. Chicago, IL.
Fox, Julia. 1999. “Mountaintop Removal in West Virginia: An Environmental Sacrifice Zone.” Organization and the Environment. 12: 163 - 182.
Gebbert, S., Pebesma, E. 2014. A temporal GIS for field based environmental modeling. Environmental Modelling & Software, 53, 1–12.
Harper KA, MacDonald SE, Burton PJ et al. 2005. « Edge influence on forest structure and composition in fragmented landscapes.” Conservation Biology. 19:768–782
Hendryx, Michael. 2013. “Personal and Family Health in Rural Areas of Kentuck With and Without Moutaintop Coal Mining.” The Journal of Rural Health. 29:79-88.
Hendryx, Michael. 2012. "Public Drinking Water Violations in Mountaintop Coal Mining Areas of West Virginia, USA". Water quality, exposure and health (1876-1658), 4 (3), p. 169.
Hendryx, Michael; Wolf, Leah; Luo, Juha and Webb, Bo. 2011. “Self-Reported Cancer Rates in Two Rural Areas with and Without Mountaintop Coal Mining.” Journal of Community Health.
Hendryx, Michael and Melissa Ahern. 2009. “Mortality in Appalachian Coal Mining Regions: The Value of Statistical Life Lost.” Public Health Reports. 124:541-550.
Hendryx, Michael and Melissa Ahern. 2008. “Relations Between Health Indicators and Residential Proximity to Coal Mining in West Virginia.” American Journal of Public Health. 98:669-671.
Hendryx, Michael and Laura Esch. 2011. “Chronic Cardiovascular Disease Mortality in Mountop Mining Areas of Central Appalachian States.” The Journal of Rural Health. 27:350-357.
Hinkle CR, McComb WC, Safely JM et al. 1993. Mixed mesophytic forests. In: Martin WH, Boyce SG, Echternacth AC (eds) Biodiversity of the Southeastern United States Upland Terrestrial Communities. Wiley, NY.
House, Silas and Howard, Jason. 2009. “Something's Rising: Appalachians fighting mountaintop removal.” Lexington, KY. University Press of Kentucky.
Lobao, Linda; Gregory Hooks and Ann Tickamyer. 2007. “The Sociology of Spatial Inequality.” State University of New York Press. Albany, NY.
O’Neill RV and Kahn JR 2000. “Homo economusas a keystone species”. Bioscience 50:333–337
McGinley, Patrick C. 2004. “Essay: From Pick and Shovel to Mountaintop Removal: Environmental Injustice in the Appalachian Coalfields.” Environmental Law. 34:21.
McNeil, Bryan. 2011. “Combating Mountaintop Removal: New Directions in the Fight against Big Coal.” University of Illinois Press. Springfield, IL.
Metz M., Mitasova H., and Harmon R.S., 2011. “Efficient extraction of drainage networks from massive, radar-based elevation models using least cost path search”. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 15(2): 667-678.
Mitasova H., Hardin E., Starek, M.J., Harmon R.S,. and Overton, M.F, 2011. Landscape dynamics from LiDAR data time series, In: Geomorphometry 2011, Hengl, T., Evans, I.S., Wilson, J.P., Gould, M. (eds.), Redlands, CA, p. 3-6.
Mitasova, H., Hardin, E., Starek, M. J., Harmon, R. S., Overton, M. F. 2011. “Landscape dynamics from LiDAR data time series.” Geomorphometry, 3–6.
Mitasova, H., Hardin, E., Overton, M., and Harmon, R.S., 2009. “New spatial measures of terrain dynamics derived from time series of lidar data.” Proc. 17th Int. Conf. on Geoinformatics, Fairfax, VA, p. 6.[9]
Mitasova, H., Harmon, R. S., Weaver, K. J., Lyons, N. J., Overton, M. F. 2012. “Scientific visualization of landscapes and landforms”. Geomorphology, 137(1), 122–137.
Mitasova, H., Mitas, L., Ratti, C., Ishii, H., Alonso, J., & Harmon, R. S. (2006). “Real-time landscape model interaction using a tangible geospatial modeling environment.” Computer Graphics and Applications, IEEE, 26(4), 55–63.
Morrone, Michele and Geoffrey Buckley. 2011. “Mountains of Injustice: Social and Environmental Justice in Appalachia.” Ohio State University Press. Athens, OH.
Murphy, Raymond 2012. "Beyond the society/nature divide: building on the sociology of William Freudenburg". Journal of environmental studies and sciences (2190-6483), 2 (1), p. 7.
Neteler, M., and Helena Mitasova. 2008. “Open Source GIS: A GRASS GIS Approach. Third Edition”. Springer, 417
Perdue, Robert and Gregory Pavela. 2012. “Addictive Economies and Coal Dependency: Methods of Extraction and Socioeconomic Outcomes in WV 1997-2009.” Organization and the Environment. 25(4): 368-384.
Pickering J, Kays R, Meier A et al. 2003. “The Appalachians.” In: Gil PR, Mittermeier RA, Mittermeier CG, et al (eds), Wilderness Earth’s Last Wild Places..Conservation International, Washington, DC.
Phillips, Jonathan. 2003. “Impacts of surface mine valley fills on headwater floods in eastern Kentucky.”
Pond, Gregory, Margaret Passmore, Nancy Pointon, Jon Felbinger, Graig Walker, Kelly Krock, Jennifer Fulton and Whitney Nash. 2014. “Long-Term Impacts on Macroinvertebrates Downstream of Reclaimed Mountaintop Mining Valley Fills in Central Appalachia.” Environmental Management. 54:919-933.
Riitters KH, Wickham JD, O’Neill RV et al. 2002.” Fragmentation of continental United States forests.” Ecosystems. 5:815–822
Reece, Erik. 2006. “Lost Mountain: A Year in the Vanishing Wilderness.” Riverhead Press. Chicago, IL.
SAMAB (Southern Appalachian Man and the Biosphere).1996. The Southern Appalachian Assessment Terrestrial Technical Report. Report 5 of 5 US Dept. of Agriculture, Forest Service, Southern Region, Atlanta, GA.
Scott, Rebecca R. 2010. “Removing Mountains.” University of Minnesota Press. Minneapolis, MN.
Soja, Edward. 2010. “Seeking Spatial Justice.” University of Minnesota Press. Minneapolis, MN.
Starek, M.J., Mitasova H., Hardin, E., Overton, M.F., Harmon, R.S. (2011). “Modeling and analysis of landscape evolution using airborne, terrestrial, and laboratory laser scanning.” Geosphere. 7(6), p. 1340–1356.
Szwilski TB, Dulin BE, Hooper J.W. 2001. An innovative approach to managing the impacts of mountaintop coal mining in West Virginia. Int J Surf Mining, Reclam Environ 15: 73–85
Tateosian, L.G., Mitasova, H., Foglemann, B., Harmon, B., Weaver K., and Harmon R.S., 2010, TanGeoMS: Tangible geospatial modeling system, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG), 16(6), p. 1605-1612.
Westman WE .1977. “How much are nature’s services worth?” Science 197:960–964
Wickham, J.D.; K.H. Ritters, T.G. Wade, M. Coan and C. Homer. 2007. “The effect of Appalachian mountaintop mining on interior forest.” Landscape Ecology. 22:179-187
Wickham JD, Riitters KH, Wade TG et al (2005) Evaluating the relative roles of ecological regions and landcover composition for guiding establishment of nutrient criteria. Landscape Ecology 20:791–798
Wishart, Ryan. 2012. “Coal River’s Last Mountain: King Coal’s Après moi le deluge Reign.” Organization & Environment. 25(4) 470-485.
Magazine Articles:
Gensler, John. Mountaintop Removal: Senseless Sacrifice.
Kramer, Kyle T. 2010. “Appalachia's Wounds: The Biblical Injustice of Mountaintop Removal.” America: 10-15.
Bowe, Rebecca. 2006. “In Defense of Mountains: On the Frontlines Against Destructive Mining.” Environment Magazine. 19-20.
Data
WV Department of Environmental Protection - Technical Applications and GIS Unit
http://tagis.dep.wv.gov/home/MiningData
WVDEP:TAG Lidar Download Portal:
http://tagis.dep.wv.gov/lidar/
WV GIS Technical Center
http://wvgis.wvu.edu/
Appalachian Voices and Skytruth
http://ilovemountains.org/maps
Baller, Mark and Pantilat, Leor J. 2007. “Defenders of Appalachia: The Campaign to Eliminate Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining and the Role of Public Justice.” Environmental Law. 37: 629.
Becker, Dogulas, Petra Wood, Michael Strager and Christine Mazzarella. 2014. “Impacts of mountaintop mining on terrestrial ecosystem integrity: identifying landscape thresholds for avian species in the central Appalachians, United States.” Landscape Ecology.
Beggs, Paul. 2012. “Horizontal cliffs: mountaintop mining and climate change.” Biodiversity Conservation. 21:3731-3734.
Bowe, Rebecca. 2006. “In Defense of Mountains: On the Frontlines Against Destructive Mining.” Environment Magazine. 19-20.
Burns, Shirley L. Stewart. 2005. “Bringing Down the Mountains: The Impact of Mountaintop Removal Surface Coal Mining on Southern West Virginia Communities, 1970-2004. Morgantown W.V.: West Virginia University Press.
Burke, Roger, Ken Fritz, Chris Barton, Brent Johnson, Stephanie Fulton, Dean Hardy, David Word and Jeff Jack. 2014. “Impacts of Mountain top Removal and Valley Fill Coal Mining on C and N Processing in Terrestrial Soils and Headwater Streams.” Water Air Soil Pollution.
Costanza R, d’Arge R, de Groots R et al. 1997. “The value of the world’s ecosystem services and natural capital.” Nature 387:253–260
Casto, Bruce; Sharma, Smita; Fisher, James and Knobloch, Thomas. 2009. ¨Oral Cancer in Appalachia.” Journal of Health Care for the Pore and Underserved. 20: 274-285.
Collinge, Sharon K. 1996. “Ecological consequences of habitat fragmentation: implications for landscape architecture and planning.” Landscape and Urban Planning 36: 59-77.
Collinge, Sharon K. 1998. “Spatial arrangement of habitat patches and corridors: clues from ecological field experiments.” Landscape and Urban Planning. 42:157-168.
Conrad, P 2008. "The Impact of Surface Applied Mulches on Selected Physical Properties of Reclaimed Mountaintop Removal Sites". International journal of mining, reclamation and environment (1748-0930), 22 (3), p. 222.
Davidson, Debra . 2012. "The double diversion: mapping its roots and projecting its future in environmental studies". Journal of environmental studies and sciences (2190-6483), 2 (1), p. 69.
Dittman, Elizabeth Katherine. 2010. Manganese and mountaintop removal mining: bioaccumulation and biological effects.”
Engeln, O. D. 1943. “Problems with Geomorphology.” Nature. Vol 151: 598-601
Eller, Ronald. 2008. “Uneven Ground: Appalachia Since 1945.” The University of Kentucky Press. Lexington, KY.
Evans, Sam. 2010. “Voices from the Desecrated Places: A Journey to End Mountaintop Removal Mining.” Harvard Law Review. 34: 51.
Fisher, Stephen. 1993. “Fighting Back in Appalachia: Traditions of Resistance and Change.” Temple University Press. Philadelphia, PA.
Fisher, Stephen and Barbra Ellen Smith. 2012. “Transforming Places: Lessons From Appalachia.” University of Illinois Press. Chicago, IL.
Fox, Julia. 1999. “Mountaintop Removal in West Virginia: An Environmental Sacrifice Zone.” Organization and the Environment. 12: 163 - 182.
Gebbert, S., Pebesma, E. 2014. A temporal GIS for field based environmental modeling. Environmental Modelling & Software, 53, 1–12.
Harper KA, MacDonald SE, Burton PJ et al. 2005. « Edge influence on forest structure and composition in fragmented landscapes.” Conservation Biology. 19:768–782
Hendryx, Michael. 2013. “Personal and Family Health in Rural Areas of Kentuck With and Without Moutaintop Coal Mining.” The Journal of Rural Health. 29:79-88.
Hendryx, Michael. 2012. "Public Drinking Water Violations in Mountaintop Coal Mining Areas of West Virginia, USA". Water quality, exposure and health (1876-1658), 4 (3), p. 169.
Hendryx, Michael; Wolf, Leah; Luo, Juha and Webb, Bo. 2011. “Self-Reported Cancer Rates in Two Rural Areas with and Without Mountaintop Coal Mining.” Journal of Community Health.
Hendryx, Michael and Melissa Ahern. 2009. “Mortality in Appalachian Coal Mining Regions: The Value of Statistical Life Lost.” Public Health Reports. 124:541-550.
Hendryx, Michael and Melissa Ahern. 2008. “Relations Between Health Indicators and Residential Proximity to Coal Mining in West Virginia.” American Journal of Public Health. 98:669-671.
Hendryx, Michael and Laura Esch. 2011. “Chronic Cardiovascular Disease Mortality in Mountop Mining Areas of Central Appalachian States.” The Journal of Rural Health. 27:350-357.
Hinkle CR, McComb WC, Safely JM et al. 1993. Mixed mesophytic forests. In: Martin WH, Boyce SG, Echternacth AC (eds) Biodiversity of the Southeastern United States Upland Terrestrial Communities. Wiley, NY.
House, Silas and Howard, Jason. 2009. “Something's Rising: Appalachians fighting mountaintop removal.” Lexington, KY. University Press of Kentucky.
Lobao, Linda; Gregory Hooks and Ann Tickamyer. 2007. “The Sociology of Spatial Inequality.” State University of New York Press. Albany, NY.
O’Neill RV and Kahn JR 2000. “Homo economusas a keystone species”. Bioscience 50:333–337
McGinley, Patrick C. 2004. “Essay: From Pick and Shovel to Mountaintop Removal: Environmental Injustice in the Appalachian Coalfields.” Environmental Law. 34:21.
McNeil, Bryan. 2011. “Combating Mountaintop Removal: New Directions in the Fight against Big Coal.” University of Illinois Press. Springfield, IL.
Metz M., Mitasova H., and Harmon R.S., 2011. “Efficient extraction of drainage networks from massive, radar-based elevation models using least cost path search”. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 15(2): 667-678.
Mitasova H., Hardin E., Starek, M.J., Harmon R.S,. and Overton, M.F, 2011. Landscape dynamics from LiDAR data time series, In: Geomorphometry 2011, Hengl, T., Evans, I.S., Wilson, J.P., Gould, M. (eds.), Redlands, CA, p. 3-6.
Mitasova, H., Hardin, E., Starek, M. J., Harmon, R. S., Overton, M. F. 2011. “Landscape dynamics from LiDAR data time series.” Geomorphometry, 3–6.
Mitasova, H., Hardin, E., Overton, M., and Harmon, R.S., 2009. “New spatial measures of terrain dynamics derived from time series of lidar data.” Proc. 17th Int. Conf. on Geoinformatics, Fairfax, VA, p. 6.[9]
Mitasova, H., Harmon, R. S., Weaver, K. J., Lyons, N. J., Overton, M. F. 2012. “Scientific visualization of landscapes and landforms”. Geomorphology, 137(1), 122–137.
Mitasova, H., Mitas, L., Ratti, C., Ishii, H., Alonso, J., & Harmon, R. S. (2006). “Real-time landscape model interaction using a tangible geospatial modeling environment.” Computer Graphics and Applications, IEEE, 26(4), 55–63.
Morrone, Michele and Geoffrey Buckley. 2011. “Mountains of Injustice: Social and Environmental Justice in Appalachia.” Ohio State University Press. Athens, OH.
Murphy, Raymond 2012. "Beyond the society/nature divide: building on the sociology of William Freudenburg". Journal of environmental studies and sciences (2190-6483), 2 (1), p. 7.
Neteler, M., and Helena Mitasova. 2008. “Open Source GIS: A GRASS GIS Approach. Third Edition”. Springer, 417
Perdue, Robert and Gregory Pavela. 2012. “Addictive Economies and Coal Dependency: Methods of Extraction and Socioeconomic Outcomes in WV 1997-2009.” Organization and the Environment. 25(4): 368-384.
Pickering J, Kays R, Meier A et al. 2003. “The Appalachians.” In: Gil PR, Mittermeier RA, Mittermeier CG, et al (eds), Wilderness Earth’s Last Wild Places..Conservation International, Washington, DC.
Phillips, Jonathan. 2003. “Impacts of surface mine valley fills on headwater floods in eastern Kentucky.”
Pond, Gregory, Margaret Passmore, Nancy Pointon, Jon Felbinger, Graig Walker, Kelly Krock, Jennifer Fulton and Whitney Nash. 2014. “Long-Term Impacts on Macroinvertebrates Downstream of Reclaimed Mountaintop Mining Valley Fills in Central Appalachia.” Environmental Management. 54:919-933.
Riitters KH, Wickham JD, O’Neill RV et al. 2002.” Fragmentation of continental United States forests.” Ecosystems. 5:815–822
Reece, Erik. 2006. “Lost Mountain: A Year in the Vanishing Wilderness.” Riverhead Press. Chicago, IL.
SAMAB (Southern Appalachian Man and the Biosphere).1996. The Southern Appalachian Assessment Terrestrial Technical Report. Report 5 of 5 US Dept. of Agriculture, Forest Service, Southern Region, Atlanta, GA.
Scott, Rebecca R. 2010. “Removing Mountains.” University of Minnesota Press. Minneapolis, MN.
Soja, Edward. 2010. “Seeking Spatial Justice.” University of Minnesota Press. Minneapolis, MN.
Starek, M.J., Mitasova H., Hardin, E., Overton, M.F., Harmon, R.S. (2011). “Modeling and analysis of landscape evolution using airborne, terrestrial, and laboratory laser scanning.” Geosphere. 7(6), p. 1340–1356.
Szwilski TB, Dulin BE, Hooper J.W. 2001. An innovative approach to managing the impacts of mountaintop coal mining in West Virginia. Int J Surf Mining, Reclam Environ 15: 73–85
Tateosian, L.G., Mitasova, H., Foglemann, B., Harmon, B., Weaver K., and Harmon R.S., 2010, TanGeoMS: Tangible geospatial modeling system, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG), 16(6), p. 1605-1612.
Westman WE .1977. “How much are nature’s services worth?” Science 197:960–964
Wickham, J.D.; K.H. Ritters, T.G. Wade, M. Coan and C. Homer. 2007. “The effect of Appalachian mountaintop mining on interior forest.” Landscape Ecology. 22:179-187
Wickham JD, Riitters KH, Wade TG et al (2005) Evaluating the relative roles of ecological regions and landcover composition for guiding establishment of nutrient criteria. Landscape Ecology 20:791–798
Wishart, Ryan. 2012. “Coal River’s Last Mountain: King Coal’s Après moi le deluge Reign.” Organization & Environment. 25(4) 470-485.
Magazine Articles:
Gensler, John. Mountaintop Removal: Senseless Sacrifice.
Kramer, Kyle T. 2010. “Appalachia's Wounds: The Biblical Injustice of Mountaintop Removal.” America: 10-15.
Bowe, Rebecca. 2006. “In Defense of Mountains: On the Frontlines Against Destructive Mining.” Environment Magazine. 19-20.
Data
WV Department of Environmental Protection - Technical Applications and GIS Unit
http://tagis.dep.wv.gov/home/MiningData
WVDEP:TAG Lidar Download Portal:
http://tagis.dep.wv.gov/lidar/
WV GIS Technical Center
http://wvgis.wvu.edu/
Appalachian Voices and Skytruth
http://ilovemountains.org/maps