Strip mining

[Brakie]

I think I am figuring this out now, As I have been researching this I can see why there is such a battle over them. I am going to the pencil and paper soon. I will keep you guys updated on progress

Like the song says:

Then the coal company came with the world's largest shovel
And they tortured the timber and stripped all the land
Well, they dug for their coal till the land was forsaken
Then they wrote it all down as the progress of man.

Chorus:
And daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County
Down by the Green River where Paradise lay
Well, I'm sorry my son, but you're too late in asking
Mister Peabody's coal train has hauled it away


"Paradise "

By John Prine.