The Kirkland Congregational Church will host a lecture entitled “Appalachian Treasures: The Struggle to Save the Heart of Appalachia” at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, July 13. This event is free and open to the public.

Mountaintop removal is a form of extracting coal that uses heavy explosives to remove hundreds of vertical feet of a mountain to access thin seams of coal underneath. This “overburden” is then dumped directly into adjacent valleys, burying headwater streams.

The presenters of this lecture will detail the struggle to protect homes, families and the mountains themselves from the irreversible destruction caused by mountaintop removal coal mining. Meet the people who are fighting to save their land and heritage from the ravages of modern industrial coal mining.

The Kirkland Congregational Church is located at 106 Fifth Ave. in Kirkland. For more information, visit www.kccucc.org or call 425-822-3811.