Appalachian Coal Country Watershed Team
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An OSM/VISTA Initiative
In
2002, the Office of Surface Mining (OSM) and AmeriCorps*VISTA
created the Appalachian Coal Country Watershed Team, an
innovative partnership designed to bring environmental and
economic improvement to communities. State by state,
watershed by watershed, partnership by partnership,
volunteer watershed groups are building on a deep tradition
of hard work and close ties to community, to their land, and
to a place, a watershed, they call home.
These
are the new stewards of one of America's most ravaged and perhaps its most
challenging environmental frontier. A region with a vast ecosystem of people,
land, and water, all ready to be reclaimed and returned to both environmental
and economic health. These watershed groups and their OSM/VISTA volunteers are
pioneering in a land of hardy mountain pioneers. Their approach is grassroots at
its strongest. This growing partnership is quietly bringing new strength and new
hope to coal country.
For
more information please visit:
http://www.accwt.org
OSM/VISTA Watershed Team
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