Skip to content
Catalog
You are not logged in |Login  
Request Add to My Lists Add to Bag MARC Display Return to Browse More Information
     
Limit search to available items
Previous Record Next Record
Book Cover
book
BookBook
Author Leutze, Jay Erskine, 1964-

Title Stand up that mountain : the battle to save one small community in the wilderness along the Appalachian Trail / Jay Erskine Leutze.

Publication Info. New York, NY : Scribner, 2012.

Copies

Location Call No. Status
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Non Fiction  338.2 LEUTZE    Check Shelf
 Bristol, Main Library - Non Fiction  338.2724 L574    Check Shelf
 Mansfield, Main Library - Adult Nonfiction  796.52 LEUTZE    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  338.2724 L57    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  338.2724 LEUTZE    Check Shelf
Edition First Scribner hardcover edition.
Description vii, 387 pages ; 24 cm
Summary This is the true story of an outdoorsman living alone in Western North Carolina who teams up with his neighbors and environmental lawyers to save a treasured mountain peak from the mining company. One day the author got a call from a young woman, Ashley, and her Aunt Ollie. Ashley and Ollie said they had evidence that Clark Stone Company was violating the Mining Act of 1971 up on Belview Mountain, one of the most remote and wildest places in the eastern United States. They wanted Jay, a non-practicing attorney, to sue the company to put a stop to their mining operation. He jumped at the challenge. Upon meeting Ashley and Ollie, he knew he was embarking on a course that would change his life. Fourteen-year-old Ashley assured him she had accumulated a stack of evidence "as big as that mountain" detailing the mine owner's misdeeds. He quickly became convinced that this was a case he could win. He formed a plaintiff group and sued the state of North Carolina for violations of its own mining laws. He and Ashley's family were eventually joined by several national conservation groups seeking to save Belview Mountain and protect the Appalachian Trail in one of its most scenic and fragile stretches. This is an underdog David vs. Goliath story with lots of good guys you love, and bad guys you love to hate. Not only did the case against the Clark Stone Company set groundbreaking legal precedent, but also the good guys won a complete victory. How they did it is chronicled in this book.
Subject Mountaintop removal mining -- Environmental aspects -- North Carolina.
Mountaintop removal mining -- Environmental aspects -- Appalachian Region.
Coal mines and mining -- North Carolina.
Coal mines and mining -- Appalachian Region.
Environmental degradation -- North Carolina.
Environmental degradation -- Appalachian Region.
Environmentalism -- North Carolina.
Environmentalism -- Appalachian Region.
North Carolina -- Environmental conditions.
Appalachian Region -- Environmental conditions.
ISBN 9781451679007: $27.00
1451679009
-->
Permanent Link
Add a Review

 

Library Links

Encore

Search Tools

Language Settings

English
Español