REPLACING NATIVE trees is vital to efforts to restore and reforest reclaimed mine sites, scientists said during recent discussion of efforts to improve abandone
IT IS possible to return a strip mined landscape to a more natural state, according to information shared by Reimagine Appalachia on Tuesday. The organization
Abandoned mine lands are supposed to be properly reclaimed stabilized and reforested to preserve water quality and prevent erosion. But hundreds of thousands of acres of old strip mines remain unclaimed, and many mines that shuttered before 1977 were reclaimed in an antiquated style that doesn’t reflect today’s best practices.
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