Benjamin Mortimer Stout III

Benjamin was born on December 21, 1957 and passed away on Friday, August 3, 2018. Benjamin was a resident of Wheeling, West Virginia at the time of passing. Ben graduated from Morgantown High School (1975), West Virginia University (BS in Agriculture and Forestry, 1980), and Tennessee Tech University (MS in Biology, 1982). He would later return to those communities to testify in Federal Court on behalf of citizens arguing that valley fills stemming from mountaintop removal mining operations were a violation of the Clean Water Act.