Herbicide Hardwood Crop Tree Release in Central West Virginia
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Hardwood tree growth on amended mine soils in west virginia.
Each year surface mining in Appalachia disrupts large areas of forested land. The Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act requires coal mine operators to establish a permanent vegetative cover after mining, and current practice emphasizes soil compaction and planting of competitive forage grasses to stabilize the site and control erosion. These practices hinder recolonization of native hardw...
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Current West Virginia coal mining regulations emphasize reforestation as a preferred postmining land use on surface mined areas. Some mined sites reclaimed to pasture are being converted to forests. In the spring of 2001, we compared the establishment and growth of five hardwood tree species on a reclaimed West Virginaia surface mine with compacted soils and a heavy grass groundcover. We plante...
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عنوان ژورنال: Northern Journal of Applied Forestry
سال: 2001
ISSN: 0742-6348,1938-3762
DOI: 10.1093/njaf/18.2.46