I seen this commercial where Walker machinery says life is thriving on mountaintop mining sites. It shows a couple of deer and some butterflies on a so called reclaimed mountaintop removal site. Why would deer and butterflies hang around a place that has no vegetation. No hardwoods or flowers, just rock and some imported grass that grows on rocks. I’ve hunted deer near my hometown in Boone Co. for well over 20 years. It took me some time to learn the deers patterns, and how they travel. It use to be a sure thing to take a deer on the first few days of hunting season. I always hunted in the same spot, and have taken some really nice deer over the years. now, it’s almost impossible to get to this special place that meant so much to me. The coal company has eliminated every way to reach this place, I useally ride my ATV to my hunting place. Hunting there were some of the best times of my life. But the last several years things aren’t the same as before. I’m just not seeing no wildlife at all, when I used to see deer, turkey, bear, and different small game species. I’ve scouted the entire area, and there’s not even any sign, the game is no longer around. But what really upsets me is, they say life is thriving on a dead mountaintop, which is an outright lie, but they forget to mention about the life that lives at the bottom of these mountaintops, and everyone knows that life is sure not thriving there either. These are evil people who think enough about the wildlife to mention them, but they want to put a blanket over whats going on to real human lives that are being blasted and poisoned from up above. Ain’t no wonder life is disappearing wheather it be human life or wildlife all through Appalachia.