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Forest Land Reclamation

Torbert, J. L. and Burger, J. A. IN: Reclamation of drastically disturbed lands, p. 371-398. American Society of Agronomy, Agronomy Monograph 41. 2000.

Forest land reclamation is the reclamation of land that was forested before mining for the purpose of restoring a productive forestry postmining land use. Ideally,it is a process of creating the best possible minesoil for trees and establishing acommunity of plant species that will develop, without further human intervention,into a healthy forest ecosystem.


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Author(s): John L. Torbert, J. A. Burger

Section: Soil Management and Growing Media