Woody Plant Establishment on Reclaimed Lands at Trapper Mine in Northwest Colorado

Redevelopment of Soil Carbon Pools on Reclaimed Surface Mine Lands

Soils play a crucial role in the global carbon cycle; they represent a carbon reservoir larger than the atmosphere, they are the site of a number of key carbon transformations (e.g. mineralization and humification), and contain a number of unique carbon pools (e.g. plant litter, humic substances, dissolved organic matter, etc.). Land disturbance associated with surface coal mining results in co...

Efficiency of Using Reclaimed Lands

1. Significance of Land Reclamation 2. Evaluation of Possible Expansion of Arable Lands 3. Peculiarities and Principles of Efficiency Evaluation 4. History of the Question 5. Expenses for Construction of Reclamation Systems and Land Development 6. Running Costs. Income 7. Methods of Economic Efficiency Evaluation 7.1 Traditional Methods 7.2 Discounting methods. 7.3 Uncertainty and Risk Calculat...

Natural plant revegetation on reclaimed coal mine landscapes in Agacli-Istanbul

Istanbul University, Faculty of Forestry, Soil Science and Ecology Department 34473 Bahcekoy/Istanbul/Turkey. 2 Istanbul Aydin University, Engineering and Architecture Faculty, Architecture Department, Inonu Cad. No:40, Kucukcekmece/Istanbul, Turkey. Forest Entomology and Protection Department, Istanbul University, Faculty of Forestry, Forest Entomology and Protection 34473 Bahcekoy/Istanbul/Tu...

Native Plants for Optimizing Carbon Sequestration in Reclaimed Lands

Conventional Wisdoms of Woody Biomass Utilization on Federal Public Lands

Existing Framing of Biomass Use Challenges Many of the physical and economic challenges to woody biomass use are well documented with most attention paid to the consistency of feedstock supply (Lynch et al. 2000, GAO 2006a, Galik et al. 2009), harvest efficiency (Hartsough et al. 2001, Han et al. 2004, Rummer 2008), processing infrastructure (Wagner et al. 1998, Fight et al. 2004, Keegan et al....