| 11. | Parts of the island undergoing pumice strip mining are barren of vegetation.
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| 12. | Strip mining is hardly new to West Virginia and other coal-producing states.
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| 13. | Plans call for completing a strip mine and processing plant by 2005.
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| 14. | SMCRA grew out of a concern about the environmental effects of strip mining.
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| 15. | But the strip mine where he works closed this year, leaving him unemployed.
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| 16. | It's 2176, and Mars is being used as a strip mine.
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| 17. | Strip mines were established in the watershed in the middle of the 1900s.
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| 18. | Harmful effects from strip mining and clear cut logging are still being corrected.
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| 19. | Maury Island strip mine could cause killer whales to quit south sound ).
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| 20. | "Smokey the Bear says, " Strip mining prevents forest fires ."
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