Powell River Project
Reclamation Guidelines
for Surface-Mined Land in Southwest Virginia
Creation and Management of Productive Mine Soils
Authors: W. Lee Daniels, Associate Professor of Crop and Soil Environmental Sciences, Virginia Tech; and Carl E. Zipper, Assistant Professor, Crop and Soil Environmental Sciences, and Director, Powell River Project.
Publication Number 460-121, posted May 1999
Figure 1 A post-SMCRA reclaimed-mine landscape with productive soils is able to support grazing cattle, and is suitable for additional economically valued land uses.
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