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News Articles - 2009 - 2008 - 2007 - 2006 - 2005
2009
MAY 2009>
Dominion planting good will with trees for
students [May 28, 2009]
Miscanthus for biofuels sprouts up in
Kentucky
HTML
PDF [May 22, 2009]
American chestnut seedlings
test blight resistance
HTML
PDF [May 18,
2009]
BARK group receives award
HTML
[May 18, 2009]
Emerald Ash borer and Mountaintop
reclamation
HTML
[May 10, 2009]
Sourwood, An experiment in Apiforestation
HTML
[Spring 2009, KEEC Land, Air and Water]
Students reclaim coal land
HTML
Video
[May
7, 2009]
Replanting coal lands
HTML
Word [May 2, 2009]
APRIL 2009
Coal land to transform into
hardwood forest HTML
|Video [April 29, 2009]
The Forestry Reclamation Approach in
Appalachia HTML
[Canadian Reclamation, April 2009]
LWF Forum shows ways to shrink carbon Big
Foot
HTML
|
PDF [April 24, 2009]
International Coal Group Celebrates Arbor
Day with Webster County Students [April 23, 2009]
Steps toward a greener world HTML
[April
23, 2009]
Growing a forest: Volunteers plant up to
3,000 trees HTML
[April 20, 2009]
Volunteers digging into county
reforestation efforts
HTML
[April 19, 2009]
Efforts to reforest Appalachia praised
[April 19, 2009]
Students plant seeds
of reclamation
HTML
[April 16, 2009]
Earth Policy Institute: Protecting and
restoring forests
[April 14, 2009]
Company honored for mine land reclamation
HTML [April 14, 2009]
Mining area is seeing green
HTML
[April 13, 2008]
Restoring Jockey Hollow: Mined area
getting new life
PDF [April 13, 2009]
Planting chestnuts on mine land fights
blight
HTML|
PDF [April 12, 2009]
Hundreds of 6th graders plant trees for Arbor Day
PDF [April 9, 2009]
Eliminating our carbon footprint one tree
at a time
HTML
|
PDF [April 7, 2009]
American chestnut trees planted on
National Forest in Ohio
HTML
[April 6, 2009]
Tree planting on tap today
HTML
|
PDF [April 3, 3009]
1000 trees to be planted at a strip mine
HTML
[April 3, 2009]
Woodlands award recognizes best in Mine
Land Reclamation
PDF [Forestry Source - April 2009]
MARCH 2009
AEP and Fiserv team up to save customers
money and plant trees HTML
[March 30, 2009]
Cleaning up Big Coal's Mess, Initiative
seeks to reforest Appalachia's mine-scalped mountain tops
PDF
[March 29, 2009]
VA, KY-sixth graders to plant trees on
mined lands
HTML
[March 29, 2009]
Reforestation of US mountaintop mine sites
gets UN endorsement
PDF [March 28, 2009]
Volunteers to plant trees in Tennessee's
Cumberland Mountains for pre-Arbor Day celebration
[March 27, 2009]
Reforesting former Appalachian mining
sites
HTML [March 27, 2009]
United Nations lauds effort to revitalize
region's Mountains
PDF [March 27, 2009]
UN lauds effort to reforest Appalachia's
mountains
HTML|
PDF [March 27,
2009]
Old mine site gets 4000 trees. Coal
companies embrace plan to reforest [March 25, 2009]
Group promotes mine land reforestation
PDF |
Word [March 20, 2009]
Old mine site getting new
lease on life
PDF [March 13, 2009]
Boone County tree planting project ramping
up
HTML
|
PDF [March 12, 2009]
Project fosters unlikely
alliance
PDF |
Word [March 6, 2009]
Tree Planting project has
threefold purpose
HTML
|
Word
|
PDF [March
5, 2009]
Volunteers to plant 800 trees
PDF
|HTML
[March 3, 2009]
FEBRUARY 2009
New chestnut trees may reclaim forests
HTML
[February 23, 2009]
International Coal Group Operations
Receive Six Safety and Reclamation Awards
HTML [February
23, 2009]
JANUARY
2009
100 urged
to plant a tree, or 10 HTML|
PDF [January 19, 2009]
2008
DECEMBER 20o8
38 million trees destined for Appalachia
HTML |
PDF
[December 16, 2008]
OSM News Release - American Chestnut tree
returns to New York City in time for the Holidays
[December 11, 2008]
Restoring forests in West Virginia's high
country
HTML
|PDF [December 8,2008]
Reclamation Successes - New Approach to
surface mine reclamation is for the birds [Virginia
Mining Journal - December 2008]
NOVEMBER 2008
Groundbreaking in the snow for new
chestnut Research Lab
HTML |
PDF [November 22, 2008]
OCTOBER
2008
American chestnuts will be planted on
reclamation sites
PDF [October 22, 2008]
OSM News Release - TACF and OSM to sign
historic partnership agreement [October 21, 2008]
SEPTEMBER 2008
3 WV sites receive coal mining reclamation
awards
HTML | PDF
[September 27, 2008]
Second grant goes for mine reclamation
HTML| PDF
[September 25, 2008]
VA leaders visit reclaimed surface mine
sites
HTML|
PDF
[September 13, 2008]
AUGUST
2008
Appalachian Fuels, LLC wins 2007 Excellence in Forestry Reclamation Award
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PDF
[August 6, 2008]
JULY
2008
Interagency Study Examines Impacts of Mine
Spoils on Reforestation Efforts
HTML
[July 2008, Technology News & Trends Newsletter]
JUNE
2008
Chestnut trees that once dominated region
being given second chance
Word
HTML
[June 22, 2008]
MAY 2008
Clay County Mine Honored for Reforestation
Effort
Word [May 26, 2008]
KYDNR, ARRI Arbor Day Celebration
HTML
[May 9, 2008]
After years of painstaking research chestnuts finally ready to
plant
HTML | PDF [May 8, 2008]
Reclaiming the Earth: Students learn how
to stop erosion
Word
|
PDF
|
HTML
[May 2, 2008]
APRIL 2008
Forestry initiative plants
threatened chestnuts on stripped land
PDF
|
HTML
[April 24, 2008]
Wins for land and limbs, Chestnut the perfect fit
for reclaimed mine land
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HTML [April 22, 2008]
ODNR/OSM go nuts for Arbor Day
Word
[April 11-12, 2008]
Arbor Day on Tri-Star Mine
HTML [April 10, 2008]
Conservationists Hope to Turn Abandoned
Mining Lands into Bird Havens
Word
|
HTML [April 9, 2008]
Chestnut trees take root in strip mining
area
Word
|
HTML [April 6, 2008]
DMME News Release - Students celebrate
Arbor Day by planting trees on mined land
PDF
[April 4, 2008]
VA's Arbor Day Celebration held on pilot
carbon sequestration project site, DOI Secretary in attendance
Word
[April 4, 2008]
Indiana AML Program Increasing
Reforestation
Word
[Spring 2008]
March
2008
Chestnuts used to restore strip mines
Word [March 31, 2008]
Ambitious project is an environment 'twofer', Tree
driven nearly to extinction is back and poised to heal strip mine
PDF
|
HTML [March 30, 2008]
Forest to Reclaimed Mine Land Use Change Leads to Altered Ecosystem Structure and Function
PDF
|
HTML
[March 25, 2008]
Ruffed Grouse to join others during Arbor
Day celebration
Word
|
HTML [March 18, 2008]
Partnership seeks to reforest former
surface mines
Word
|
HTML [March 18, 2008]
Project aims to hone planting method for
chestnuts on mine site
Word |
HTML
[March 15, 2008]
Restoring forests at mines takes root
Word
|
HTML
[March 10, 2008]
JANUARY
2008
Cravat Coal honored for pilot program
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HTML [January 7, 2008]
New Rule Increases Plant Diversity on
Reclaimed Lands |
HTML [January 5, 2008]
2007
OCTOBER 2007
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Dr. Donald Graves, retired chair UK
Department of Forestry, receives 2007 Environmental Leadership
Award in Lexington (October 2, 2007)
SEPTEMBER 2007
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Seeing the forest and the Trees: UK Board
must reassure public about logging experiment's worth (September
30, 2007)
DOI News Release - Coal Operators
Recognized for Outstanding Reclamation: including 2 sites
with American chestnut plots
(September 18, 2007)
EXTRACTIVE INDUSTRY AND THE
ENVIRONMENT IN CENTRAL EUROPE [EIECE] -
Czech-English abstract that was published
for the EIECE 2007 conference (September 12-14, 2007)
AUGUST 2007
Challenges remain in reintroducing
American chestnut (August 22, 2007)
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Mine sites to become verdant stands of
hardwood (August 10, 2007)
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A new method for reforesting strip mines
is being touted in Southwest Virginia (August 9, 2007)
- Chestnut tree poised for comeback
(August 7, 2007)
JULY 2007
- Editorial: Remarkable salvation of an
American treasure (July 31, 2007)
- Chinese cousin helps American chestnut
tree return (July 27, 2007)
- Threatened Chestnuts now spreading again (July 26, 2007)
DOI News Release - Planting Hope:
Kempthorne Dedicates American Chestnut, Underscores Partnership
(July 26, 2007)
JUNE 2007
DOI News Release - Secretary Kempthorne
Spotlights American chestnut (July 24, 2007)
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Trees need to stretch their toes (June 27,
2007)
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Forestry Reclamation Approach Takes Front
Seat (June 21, 2007)
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Coal Company Gives back to Eastern
Kentucky (June 1, 2007)
MAY 2007
New ARRI Core Team Member - Dave
Hamilton (May 2007)
KY Middle School Students plant Chestnut
trees at reclaimed mine site (May 11, 2007)
DOI News Release - Secretary Kempthorne
recognizes Interior Employees at 64th Honors Convocation (May 9,
2007)
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Students plant American Chestnut in mine site (May 9, 2007)
Reclaimed mine site will nurture American
Chestnut trees (May 8, 2007)
Planting a comeback, The American Chestnut
(May 8, 2007)
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Restoring the American Chestnut: After
years of research foresters are planting blight-resistant
seedlings (May 8, 2007)
New York Times Op-ed on ARRI, A Beautiful
Mine, by Erik Reece (May 5, 2007)
BARK Project takes root (May 2, 2007)
Reclamation at Jockey Hollow, OH Arbor Day
(May 1, 2007)
APRIL 2007
International Coal Group plays host to
Glade Students on Arbor Day (April, 27, 2007)
WV Glade sixth graders help reclaim mine
site on Arbor Day (April 27, 2007)
Woodlands abuzz on Arbor Day (April 27,
2007)
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Alpha Natural Resources' Paramont
Subsidiary Wins Top VA Mine Reclamation Award (April 17, 2007)
Students Plant 2000 trees for Arbor Day
(April 17, 2007)
Commonwealth VA. News Release - Students
Celebrate Arbor Day by Planting trees on Mined Land (April 13,
2007)
Arbor Awareness (April 12, 2007)
ARRI, Georges Creek Watershed, MDE Bureau
of Mines Host Tree-planting Event (April 11, 2007)
Arbor Day Seeded at Coal Mining Sites
Tree-planting (April 11, 2007)
OHIO Citizens Group, Barnesville Area
Reforestation Kommittee (BARK), making reclamation history
(April 9, 2007)
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OU Students Volunteer to help save
endangered tree (April 5, 2007)
With lofty hopes Ohio Univ. Team plants
1200 Super-Chestnuts (April 1, 2007)
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Planters hope Chestnut forests take hold
(April 1, 2007)
MARCH 2007
Planting seeks to revive chestnut's place
in Ohio (March 31, 2007)
- Can chestnut trees reclaim strip mine?
(March 30, 2007)
- COMPASS: Issue 8, Greening At the Seams
(March 2007)
Vic Davis wins Forest Conservationist of
the Year Award (March 21, 2007)
High School Students Plant Tree, Gain
Knowledge, TN (March 19, 2007)
OSM News Release - New rule promotes
better tree growth on previously forested areas (March 2, 2007)
TN Federal Register Notice 30 CFR Part 942
- Federal Regulatory Program: Final Rule (March 2, 2007)
JANUARY 2007
State Wildlife Agencies get boost from
Ruffed Grouse Society (January 12, 2007)
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Water Management Administration Joins
other Agencies in Reforestation Demonstration Project (December
2006)
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OH DNR News Release - Award Winners
recognized at Sixth Annual Applied Research Conference (December
2006)
OSM helps American Chestnut Reclaim Forest
Throne - People Land and Water article (November 2006)
- Bringing Back a Mountain (November 2006)
New Rule Increases Plant Diversity on
Reclaimed Lands (November 2006)
News in Brief (Fall 2006)
Mined Land Reforestation Workshops held in
Ohio (October 2006)
Sigmond Coal Company receives Excellence
in Reforestation Award (September 2006)
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UK Joins other partners in Arbor Day
Celebration (May 2006)
VA DMME News Release - Paramont Coal's
Black Bear #1 Surface mine wins National, Regional recognition
for Reclamation, Reforestation efforts (May 2006)
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Secretary Helps Plant Native Forest;
Issues Awards to Local Coal Firms (May 2006)
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Arbor Day 2006 - Representatives from the
Maryland Bureau of Mines, ARRI, along with members of the
Maryland Land Reclamation Committee...(April
2006)
Klondike Tree Planting Reclamation -
Students mark Arbor Day with new trees (April 2006)
Reforestation Award presented to Apogee
Coal (March 2006)
UK Article on Reforestation of Surface
Mined Lands in Kentucky (2006)
2005
KY EPPC News Release - Governor Fletcher,
UK President Todd sign Reforestation Initiative (August 2005)
- UK President, Governor sign
Reforestation Initiative (August 2005)
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Mining Site is 1000 trees richer (August
2005)
Kingdom Come Elementary School Students
will plant American Chestnut trees to celebrate Arbor Day (April 2005)
VA DMME News Release - Arbor Day Event
focuses on Virginia's participation in ARRI (April 2005)
OSM News Release - Director Jeff Jarrett
Promotes Reforestation with Arbor Day Tree Planting (April 2005)
OSM News Release - State and Federal Officials "take the pledge"
for more trees on restored mined lands (April 2005)
OSM News Release - Scott County High
School Student will plant trees to celebrate Arbor Day, push
reforestation (March 2005)
OSM News Release - Partnership Promotes
Reforestation on Mined Lands (December 2004)