Have you seen this?

Coal miners and their employers in West Virginia are encouraging a boycott of travel to Tennessee in retaliation for Senator Lamar Alexander’s support of a federal ban on a type of mining known as mountaintop removal.

The idea for the boycott surfaced after a large group of opponents from West Virginia attended a Congressional committee hearing in late June on a bill that would forbid the pollution of streams with debris from surface mining techniques like mountaintop removal, said David Moss, director of governmental affairs for the Kentucky Coal Association.

Mr. Alexander of Tennessee is the only Republican to co-sponsor the bill, the Appalachia Restoration Act, and an official from the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation testified in its favor.

So let's get this straight. A Senator tries to stop the blowing up of mountaintops and Big Coal decides to boycott said Senator's state in retaliation?

Well, there's only one thing to do. Go to Tennessee! And tell Sen. Alexander that Big Coal's boycott has inspired you to go visit. Talk about why you love the Volunteer State here. And take a look at some Tennessee trails already posted on Sierra Club Trails.