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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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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 ...
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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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Appalachian Activists Reclaim and Rewild Land Slated as Site for New Prison
The group will return the land to Native stewardship, healing it from past mining and blocking prison expansion.
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Activists buy a prison site to rewild the land: 'A sign of progress'
This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. On a freezing cold Wednesday afternoon in eastern Kentucky, Taysha DeVaughan joined a small gathering at the ...