Bad Actors

"The worse abuse I ever saw."
-Burt Begley, Laurel County, KY.

"Bad Actor" is the name given to loggers that do not follow the Best Management Practices of timber harvesting. By ignoring the contour of the land when building roads and not taking care to protect the watershed, these loggers leave behind a devastation that effects everyone living downstream.

Sissy Bailey lives and works around Saltville, Virginia in Smyth County. She talks about the effects of a large clear cut above her family's farm.

Burt Begley lives in Laurel County, Kentucky. He visited a logging job in Leslie County and had these impressions.

Click to hear this Saltville resident talk about the logging going on near his community.