Powell River
Research:
Best
Practices for Reclaiming Mined Land for Forests and 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.
Effects of Total Dissolved Solids in
Streams of Southwestern Virginia. Stephen Schoenholtz, Virginia Water Resources
Research Center, Virginia Tech; David Soucek, Ecotoxicologist, Illinois
Natural History Survey; Carl Zipper, Crop and Soil Environmental
Sciences, Virginia Tech. (Additional support provided by Virginia
Department of Environmental Quality and by Virginia Department of
Mines, Minerals and Energy.)
Managing Shrub-Infested Post-mining
Pasturelands with Goats and Cattle: Effects on Pasture Quality, Animal
Performance, and Farm Profitability. A.O. Abaye, Crop and Soil
Environmental Sciences. (Additional support provided by Virginia
Agricultural Experiment Station).
Powell River Project Forest Management
Demonstration and Research. John Munsell, Forestry
(Additional support provided by Virginia Agricultural Experiment
Station).
Use of Reclaimed Coal-Mined Land for
Woody Biomass Production. J. Burger, C. Zipper (Supported by
Alpha Natural Resources).
Education / Extension / Outreach:
Enhancing
Sustainable Beef Cattle Production on Reclaimed Surface Mined Land. W. D. Whittier,
Teaching
Environmental Issues, from Coal to Electricity. Barbara Altizer, Eastern Coal Council and
Jon Rockett, Powell River Project / Virginia Cooperative Extension.
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,
External Funding and Related Activities
Carbon
Sequestration Project on Surface Mined Sites in the Clinch and Powell
Valleys of Virginia. J.A. Burger, B. Amichev, and C. Zipper.
Supported by The Nature Conservancy Clinch Valley Program.
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.
Establishing Hardwood Forests with
American Chestnut using Forestry Reclamation Approach: Effects of
Grading Practices and Ground Cover. J. Burger, C. Zipper.
Supported by US Office of Surface Mining.
Evaluation of Coal Mining Discharges
for Toxicity in Clinch/Powell River Watersheds of Virginia to Replicate
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Activities. D.S. Cherry,
Biology, and C.E. Zipper, Crop and Soil Environmental Sciences.
Supported by Virginia Coal Association.
Outdoor Sustainable Forest Management
Classrooms. J. Munsell, Forestry. Supported by Sustainable
Forestry Initiative.
Reclamation of Mined Land Utilizing
Native Warm Season Grasses. Samir Doshi and Saleem H. Ali,
University of Vermont.
Restoring Productivity of Coal Surface
Mined Land. J. Burger, C. Zipper, T. Fox. Supported by
Appalachian Regional Commission.
Structural and Functional Assessment
of Restored Headwater Streams in the Central Appalachian Coalfields. S.
Schoenholtz, J. Webster, F. Benfield, C. Zipper. Supported by Institute
for Critical Technologies and Applied Sciences, Virginia Tech.
Using
Remotely Sensed Imagery to Assess Post-Mining Vegetation and Vegetation
Change. Randolph Wynne, Department of Forestry, and Carl
Zipper, Crop and Soil Environnmental Sciences. Supported by Geospatial
Environmental Analysis Program, Virginia Tech.