The town I live in was the largest coal producing town in the US during WWI. We have over 10,000 acres of barren wasteland, covered with worthless junk timber and weeds that don't even grow, right on top of boney piles and red dog and subsoil that mimics the surface of the moon more than a place on earth.
Before mandatory reclamation, the common practice was to create a cut in the ground, push the overburden up behind the cut, extract the coal, then push the next cut of overburden into the previous one, leaving the first cuts overburden piled up. It creates rings of overburden pushed up in the air 100+ feet high, along the contours of the ground.
Now, our town is near the center of the biggest play in natural gas, in the history of the US. I can tell you first hand that there will not be a shortage of natural gas as long as politicians allow the companies to extract the gas. All the controversy about contaminating water, and polluting the air; surrounds the drilling like flies on... well, you get the picture.
There was no controversy concerning the coal extraction, that ruined our town; because, there were no regulations when the coal was taken from this area. Also, if it wasn't for the coal, the towns around here would not even exist in the first place. It could never happen again, on such a massive scale, to ever dominate the production of natural gas.
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Today's Featured Article - Old Time Threshing - by Anthony West. A lovely harvest evening late September 1947, I was a school boy, like all school boys I loved harvest time. The golden corn ripens well and early, the stoking, stacking,.... the drawing in with the tractors and trailers and a few buck rakes thrown in, and possibly a heavy horse. It would be a great day for the collies and the terrier dogs, rats and mice would be at the bottom of the stacks so the dogs, would have a busy time hunting and killing, all the corn was gathered and ricked in what we c
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