Thursday, September 09, 2010
Lawsuit Seeks To List Blair Mountain On National Register
WEST VIRGINIA....
The Sierra Club, the Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition, the Friends of Blair Mountain and the West Virginia Labor History Association filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., Thursday seeking to get the site of the Battle of Blair Mountain back on the National Register of Historic Places. The groups are seeking to preserve about 15 miles of mountain ridges along the Boone-Logan county border. In December 2009, Carol Shull, interim keeper of the National Register, removed the site from the rolls. The groups believe that de-listing Blair Mountain was a mistake that violates federal law. Shull was named as a defendant in the lawsuit, along with U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar and Jon Jarvis, director of the National Park Service. The lawsuit was filed by Washington, D.C., lawyer Andrea C. Ferster and Sierra Club lawyer Aaron Isherwood.
The Sierra Club, the Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition, the Friends of Blair Mountain and the West Virginia Labor History Association filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., Thursday seeking to get the site of the Battle of Blair Mountain back on the National Register of Historic Places. The groups are seeking to preserve about 15 miles of mountain ridges along the Boone-Logan county border. In December 2009, Carol Shull, interim keeper of the National Register, removed the site from the rolls. The groups believe that de-listing Blair Mountain was a mistake that violates federal law. Shull was named as a defendant in the lawsuit, along with U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar and Jon Jarvis, director of the National Park Service. The lawsuit was filed by Washington, D.C., lawyer Andrea C. Ferster and Sierra Club lawyer Aaron Isherwood.
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