Save Our Cumberland Mountains
- Save Our Cumberland Mountains
Save Our Cumberland Mountains, or SOCM, is a Tennessee activist group best known for their opposition to strip mining. They were founded in 1972 to oppose what they said were unfair imbalances in property taxes, described by a group of Vanderbilt students, between small and large landowners in the rural coal mining counties of East Tennessee. Their focus later grew beyond the Cumberland Plateau and Cumberland Mountains regions, to include all of Tennessee. [cite news
date = 2003-03-17
url = http://www.oakridger.com/stories/031703/stt_0317030022.html
title = Group continues to fight strip mining in Cumberland Mountains
publisher = The Associated Press
accessdate = 2006-06-16 ]
J. W. Bradley of Petros, Tennessee is a cofounder and longtime leader of the group. [ cite web
url = http://www.socm.org/
title = SOCM (Save Our Cumberland Mountains)
work = Official web site
publisher = SOCM
accessdate = 2006-06-16 ]
ee also
*I Love Mountains
*Conservation Movement
*Conservation ethic
*Earth Science
*Natural environment
*Nature
*Sustainability
*Biodiversity
*Global warming
*Ecology
*Ecosystem
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