One of the most culturally significant ridgelines in America and a showcase of Appalachian identity, West Virginia's Blair Mountain, now hosts a struggle between proponents of its natural and human history and energy corporations annihilating it for short-term profit. A 1921-era battlefield upon which nearly 15,000 oppressed coal miners waged war against thousands of corporate-funded law officers, the 12-mile Blair Mountain ridgeline yet hides numerous military artifacts from a 5-day battle that took nearly 100 lives.
Friends of Blair Mountain recently replicated the late-summer assault on the ridge dividing union and non-union territory with a march proclaiming the regional identity that the ridgeline represents and the universal identity of human rights advocacy. The struggle has the literal removal of the mountain ridge with mining machinery against an alternative of preservation on the National Register of Historic Places.
The ridgeline of Blair Mountain features classic symbols of Appalachian culture, while the surrounding communities display the classic economic inequity resulting from unjust distribution of energy tax revenue. The 1600 acres proposed for historic listing contain natural icons such as sassafras trees and timber rattlesnakes, as well as a visible coal seam known as a five-block seam, a rare occurrence of unmined bituminous coal.
Kenneth King, spokesman for Friends of Blair Mountain, points out that the communities below the ridge constitute the second-poorest Congressional district in America, and he expresses pessimism at the prospect of saving the ridge absent extraordinary federal intervention.
In an attempt to recognize the ridgeline as part of the physical scaffolding of the United States upon which our principles were lain, proponents of historic designation point to the need for taxation principles that affirm the value of both the energy resource and the people who mine it. A uniform system of per-unit-produced taxation or increased revenue distribution at the point of source, would create a federal-community connection that would generate revenue for job creation, thereby setting the stage for the post-coal era.
Armed corporate guards once again occupy the ridgeline, as in 1921, while the impoverished residents of Logan County, West Virginia prepare to have their landscape itself removed.
Category: The Ridgeline
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