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The Mountaintop removal process covers all three of the H’s of conservation biology.
1.) Habitat Fragmentation-  A road must be created to the strip site.
2.) Habitat Degradation-  Entire forest of the area to be mined is cut.
3.) Habitat Destruction -  Area is mined and mountain destroyed

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