Using trees on reclaimed mined lands in southern Illinois

Jim Sandusky

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Using trees on reclaimed mined lands in southern Illinois

Informally Refereed

Authors:

Jim Sandusky

Year:

1980

Type:

General Technical Report

Station:

Northern Research Station

Source:

In: Trees for Reclamation Symposium Proceedings; Gen. Tech. Rep. NE-61. Broomall, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northeastern Forest Experiment Station. 17-19

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Abstract

In southern Illinois Peabody Coal Company included reforestation as a part of its ten year plan for the reclamation of acid mine spoil. Hand planted trees had highest survival rates. The species that proved most successful were black locust, autumn olive, sweetgum, black alder, loblolly pine, and river birch.

Parent Publication

Trees for Reclamation Symposium Proceedings

Citation

Sandusky, Jim. 1980. Using trees on reclaimed mined lands in southern Illinois. In: Trees for Reclamation Symposium Proceedings; Gen. Tech. Rep. NE-61. Broomall, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northeastern Forest Experiment Station. 17-19