
Research:
Grading
and Ground Cover for Reclaiming Mined Land for Forestry. James A.
Burger, Department of Forestry
Long-Term
Mine Soil Weathering and Treatment Effects on Total Dissolved Solids in
Drainage Waters and on Soil Properties, Or Do Topsoil Substitutes
Really Mimic Natural Soils?
W. Lee Daniels,
Department of Crop and Soil Environmental
Sciences.
Evaluating
Wildlife Response to Reclaimed Mine Lands in Southwestern Virginia. Dean F. Stauffer and Carola Haas, Department
of Fisheries and Wildlife Sciences.
Herbaceous
Crops for a Biofuels/Bioproducts Industry on Reclaimed Mine Lands. John Fike, John Galbraith, Chris Teutsch,
David Parrish, Carl Zipper. Crop and Soil Environmental Sciences.
Education / Extension / Outreach –
Area Extension Agent – Mined Land Development and Natural Resource
Management.
Jon Rockett,
Enhancing
Sustainable Beef Cattle Production on Reclaimed Surface Mined Land. John Hall, Department of Animal and
Poultry
Sciences, and W. D. Whittier,
Teaching
Environmental Issues, from Coal to Electricity. Barbara Altizer, Eastern Coal Council and
Jon Rockett, Powell River Project / Virginia Cooperative Extension.
Education
– Area Colleges:
Habitat
Assessment and the Establishment of a Nesting Box Trail for Sialia sialis (Eastern Bluebird) In
the Powell River Project Education Center. Carol A. Burkart and Anthony Russo,
Carbon Sequestration Project
on
Surface Mined Sites in the Clinch and
Co-grazing Appalachian Pastures with Goats
and
Cattle: Effects on Pasture Quality, Animal Performance, and Farm
Profitability.
A.O. Abaye, J.M.
Luginbuhl,
C. Zipper, J. Rockett, D. Whittier.
Nutrient Sorption Potentials of High-Carbon
Ash Materials. W. Lee
Daniels,
Department of Crop and Soil Environmental
Sciences. Supported by
Mined Land Reforestation Conference. C. Zipper, Department of Crop and Soil
Environmental Sciences; and J.A. Burger, Department of Forestry.
Supported by
Reclamation of Mined Land Utilizing Native
Warm Season Grasses. Samir
Doshi and Saleem H. Ali, University of Vermont.