Sierra Club Takes Action
BCNP is honored and excited that Sierra Club Kentucky is also advocating to stop the construction of a new federal prison in Letcher County. Please check out their webpage for more info.
For decades, Sierra Club has been fighting the practice of mountaintop removal mining and its disastrous effects on the environment and communities across Appalachia. Now Sierra Club is supporting Letcher County residents who are fighting to stop a reforested and reclaimed mountaintop in Roxana from being cleared and cemented over to build Eastern Kentucky’s fourth federal prison, FCI Letcher. The Federal Bureau of Prisons is targeting this reclaimed mining site for further exploitation under an empty promise of economic development that will destroy over 120 acres of forest habitat and two acres of wetlands, endangering watersheds and wildlife.
