NC Loves Mountains

Big Fat Gap, Matrimony, & Dewi Sant played at the Local 506 last night in an event sponsored by Appalachian Voices. My dear friend Parker works for them in Boone and she is a dedicated supporter of stopping the mountain top removal that is happening all over the Southeast.

Mountaintop removal is a form of extracting coal that uses heavy explosives to remove hundreds of vertical feet of a mountain to access thin seams of coal underneath. This “overburden” is then dumped directly into adjacent valleys, burying headwater streams and turning freshwater into brown muck.

You can help support the efforts of ending mountaintop removal in the Appalachian mountains by writing your congressman or senator and signing the petition to keep our water clean. I did.

Buy a bumpersticker, tattoo, or pin if you heart mountains too.