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The following materials are included in this online collection with permission. Please contact the American Folklife Center for additional information where contact information is not provided:

The article "Patterns of Forest Health: A Report on Citizen Monitoring in the Eastern Mountains 1994-1997" has been reproduced with the permission of the Lucy Braun Association

The short satire of the Broad Form Deed is used with the permission of the writer, Bob Henry Baber.

The Sierra Club granted permission to use the illustration of the seasonal round, which was originally created by graphic artist Tom Suzuki and accompanied the essay "'Weathering the Storm': Cultural Survival in an Appalachian Valley" in the publication An Appalachian Tragedy: Air Pollution and Tree Death in the Eastern Forests of North America.

Photographs in this presentation produced by Jenny Hager of Alpine Images, Laura Forman of the Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition, Woody Boggs, and Rick Bradford have been used here with their permission. Copy photographs of numerous historical still photographs owned by Woody Boggs and Rick Bradford were made and are reproduced here with permission of the owners.