Strip mining the Peace River Valley in central Florida is unknown by most people throughout the U.S. Families living in central Florida as a whole are unaware of the phosphate strip mining industry's devastation in surrounding counties. Most people do not know about the severe environmental impacts caused by strip mining for, in this case, phosphate rock. The phosphate rock is removed from the land surface down to about one hundred feet. Huge machines called draglines strip the earth. The…