In 2006, Mountain Heritage published The Clinch River: A World-Class Treasure with Stacy Fowler Horton. Distributed for free to ninth-graders around the region as part of Virginia’s Standards of Learning curriculum, this science and environmental textbook also provided information about vital resources for conservation.
The Virginia Headwaters of the Big Sandy River: A Story of Revitalization and Nature’s Resilience followed in 2008. This time around, Frank Kilgore served as editor, with Kari Kilgore as co-author with Lu Ellsworth. While the focus shifted to the neighboring Big Sandy watershed, this science textbook was equally well-received by area high school students and teachers.