Pic 16 thanks to the scouts

This is a proposed mine area. Its plowing through one of the most diverse areas I have seen. Bloodroot, trillium, sassafras, ginger, magnolia. The three days of scouting on April 25,26 and 27 are the result of a collective efforts of scientist, lawyers, mountain huggers and other assorted riff raff. In the back is one of our hard working scouts who has just sank in cold mud up to her calves. Our scouts waded through pits, came home covered in mud and poison ivy, ran up highwalls, hiked for miles, mucked through wetlands, caught aquatic insects, photographed, and in general inventoried 3 proposed strip mines here in Tennessee. Thanks to yall.