{"id":46,"date":"2025-12-06T06:40:51","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T06:40:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amst307.gracecoates.com\/?page_id=46"},"modified":"2025-12-06T06:40:51","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T06:40:51","slug":"story-map","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/amst307.gracecoates.com\/?page_id=46","title":{"rendered":"Story Map"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This StoryMap exhibits Southwestern Virginia\u2019s history of mining and demonstrates the visual impact of mountaintop removal mining on the physical landscape. It provides examples of places that have been exploited by mining over time; therefore, showing the impact of mining on both the topography of the land and local communities.This allows the user to compare older\u00a0 photos to more current ones and gives a general overview of how much the area has changed.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" src='https:\/\/uploads.knightlab.com\/storymapjs\/64c5dbdba6e9d258a25f890adaeaa156\/mountaintop-removal\/draft.html#?secret=oMgXnMg1Ot' data-secret='oMgXnMg1Ot' width='500' height='700' frameborder='0'><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p>notes <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[4] Jack M. Jones, <em>Early Coal Mining in Pocahontas, Virginia: With Illustrations<\/em> (Pocahontas, VA: J.M. Jones, 1983).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[5] Katharine C. Shearer, <em>Memories From Dante: The Life of a Coal Town<\/em> (Dante, VA: Dante Lives On, 2001).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[6] Walter L. Hibbard Jr., <em>Virginia Coal: A History<\/em> (Blacksburg, VA: Virginia Center for Coal and Energy Research, 1985).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[7] Appalachian Voices, <em>Mountaintop Removal Mining: Before and After<\/em>, accessed December 5, 2025, https:\/\/appvoices.org\/end-mountaintop-removal\/before-after-images\/..<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[8] Library of Congress, \u201cPocahontas Mine Explosion Records,\u201d accessed 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This StoryMap exhibits Southwestern Virginia\u2019s history of mining and demonstrates the visual impact of mountaintop removal mining on the physical landscape. It provides examples of places that have been exploited by mining over time; therefore, showing the impact of mining on both the topography of the land and local communities.This allows the user to compare [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-46","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amst307.gracecoates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/46","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amst307.gracecoates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amst307.gracecoates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amst307.gracecoates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amst307.gracecoates.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/amst307.gracecoates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/46\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74,"href":"https:\/\/amst307.gracecoates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/46\/revisions\/74"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amst307.gracecoates.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}