Fast Company11d
This Kentucky land was devastated by strip mining—now, activists want to bring the bison back
On a freezing cold Wednesday afternoon in eastern Kentucky, Taysha DeVaughan joined a small gathering at the foot of a ...
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Eastern Kentucky residents debate rewilding former mine or turning it into a prison
Residents of Roxana, Kentucky, are battling it out over whether to transform a piece of land, which formerly housed a strip mine, into a federal penitentiary or to rewild it and let the bison roam ...
The New York Times18d
Kentucky’s Mountaintop Mines Are Turned Into Neighborhoods
Supported by By Austyn Gaffney Photographs by Jon Cherry Austyn Gaffney and Jon Cherry visited former coal strip mines and once-flooded river valleys in Eastern Kentucky. The wooden cabinets and ...
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Bison, not prison: Activists buy a prison site to rewild the land
On a freezing cold Wednesday afternoon in eastern Kentucky, Taysha DeVaughan joined a small gathering at the foot of a reclaimed strip mine to celebrate a homecoming. “It’s a return of an ...