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Appalachia in the News Mining Memorial

Scotia Mine Disaster of 1976

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I found this article in the Lexington Herald Leader and thought I would share it with you.Â This mining disaster

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Appalachia in the News Mountain Living Uncategorized

National Forests of Appalachia

September 30, 2009 admin 0 Comment appalachian, appalachian trail, benton, benton mackaye, blue, blue ridge, blue ridge mountains, blue ridge parkway, canada, carolina, federal, forest, georgia, government, great, great smokey mountains, harvesting, landschape. 1911, mackaye, main, mountain, mountains, national, national forests, national park, north carolina, park, parkway, preservation, preserve, ridge, shenandoah, shenandoah national park, smokey, smokey mountains, tennessee, timber, tourist, trail, weeks act

Appalachia has very beautiful landscape. In order to protect and preserve the landscape, in 1911, Congress passed the Weeks Act,

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