posted 9/14/2012 by Flora Bernard Larry Gibson and Tim DeChristopher ignoring the "No Trespassing" sign on Kayford Mountain, WV What do you have, in your own circle of life, that is so precious that you cannot put a price on it? What would it be? And if someone tried to come and take it from you, what would you do... how far would you go, to stand for it? For me, it was my land. For me, it was my mountain. --Larry Gibson A couple of years ago, I took a road trip to West Virginia with some close friends, one of whom was incarcerated environmental folk hero Tim DeChristopher . Tim was born in West Virginia, and watched his mother fight mountaintop removal mining through his early upbringing through every legal channel. After lobbying, petitioning, appealing permits, and otherwise doing her damndest to create the political will necessary to stop MTR for as many years as she could stand, she moved her family out of West Virginia. Decades later, coal c...