Up WV 80 in McDowell County sits Iaeger — a town that looks, in Bryan's words, like a thriving community in the middle of the Walking Dead.

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#Whattodowitholdtires? 3B tires are produced each year, & 800M become waste. Many are recycled—rubber mulch, playground equipment—but KY, especially in its rural areas, has become a dumping ground, especially its rivers. In 6 ys, 16183 tires have been removed from the TugFork.

Rolling Front Street in Iaeger, McDowell County — downtown, or what's left of it, with a street fair still going and BBQ smoke in the air.

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Rolling through Toler on US 119 in Pike County, Kentucky — right in that stretch where the road hugs the Tug Fork watershed, just past Belfr…

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Rolling WV 80 through Verner in Mingo County, right along the Tug Fork — the river that marks the Kentucky line and carried more coal tonnag…

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Rolling WV 65 through Burch and into Delbarton, Mingo County — tight road, tight holler, the kind of run where the creek is right there and…

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Down US-52 — the Coal Heritage Road — along the Tug Fork into Iaeger, McDowell County.

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Cedar Heights Road, Fort Gay, Wayne County, West Virginia — far enough west that the Tug Fork and the Big Sandy are doing the work of decidi…

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