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Editorial: Valley fills
Despite protests from nature-lovers, passage of the strip mine "mitigation" bill by the 1998 Legislature may be the best thing that could have happened to West Virginia - because it may lead to real studies of long-term effects of huge valley fills that bury miles of streams and headwaters.
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Editorial: Valley fills
Despite protests from nature-lovers, passage of the strip mine "mitigation" bill by the 1998 Legislature may be the best thing that could have happened to West Virginia - because it may lead to real studies of long-term effects of huge valley fills that bury miles of streams and headwaters.
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