In the tradition of A Civil Action—this true story of a North Carolina outdoorsman who teams up with his neighbors in a grassroots conservation fight to save treasured land along the Appalachian Trail from being destroyed will “make you want to head for the mountains” (Raleigh News & Observer).
Living alone in his wooded mountain retreat, Jay Leutze gets a call from a whip-smart fourteen-year-old, Ashley Cook, and her aunt, Ollie Cox, who say a local mining company is intent on tearing down Belview Mountain, the towering peak above their house in western North Carolina. Ashley and her family, who live in a little spot known locally as Dog Town, are “mountain people,” with a way of life and speech unique to their home high in the Appalachian Mountains. They suspect the mining company is violating North Carolina’s mining and environmental law, and they want Jay, a nonpracticing attorney, to stop the destruction of the mountain. Jay, a devoted naturalist and fisherman, quickly decides to join their cause.
So begins the epic quest of “the Dog Town Bunch,” a battle that involves fiery public hearings, clandestine surveillance by citizen watchdogs of the mine operator’s highly questionable activities, ferocious pressure on public officials, and high-stakes legal brinksmanship in the North Carolina court system. Jay helps assemble a talented group of environmental lawyers to contend with the well-funded attorneys protecting the mining company’s plan to dynamite Belview Mountain, which happens to sit next to the famous Appalachian Trail, the 2,184-mile national park that stretches from Maine to Georgia. As the mining company continues to level the forest and erect the gigantic crushing plant on the site, Jay’s group searches frantically for a way to stop an act of environmental desecration that will destroy a fragile wild place and mar the Appalachian Trail forever.
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Stand Up That Mountain
The Battle to Save One Small Community in the Wilderness Along the Appalachian Trail
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eBook - ePub
Stand Up That Mountain
The Battle to Save One Small Community in the Wilderness Along the Appalachian Trail
About this book
Table of contents
- Cover
- Description
- Praise
- About Jay Erskine Leutze
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Part I
- Part II
- Acknowledgments
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ScribnerYear
2012Topic
Biological SciencesPrint ISBN
9781451682649
Subtopic
Environmental LaweBook ISBN
9781451682656
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