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CORE AND SCIENCE TEAMS
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FOREST RECLAMATION ADVISORIES
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FORESTRY RECLAMATION APPROACH
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IN THE NEWS
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MINED LAND REFORESTATION CONFERENCES
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PLANTING TREES ON LEGACY MINES
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REFORESTATION AWARDS
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REFORESTATION RESEARCH
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STATE AND PRIVATE NURSERIES
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STATEMENT OF MUTUAL INTENT
- ABOUT the conference - conference presentations -
August 5-7, 2008
LOGAN, WEST VIRGINIA
The 2008 Mined Land
Reforestation Conference highlighted reforestation efforts in
the Appalachian Region with special focus on the 5 steps of the
Forestry Reclamation Approach and research findings and
practices that
improve reforestation success.
The presentations that were given at the conference are available for download
in Adobe Acrobat*
below.
If you have any questions or problems downloading the below presentations please contact the ARRI webmaster.
2008 CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS:
“Status of West Virginia
Reforestation Efforts”
[26 pages] by Randy Huffman, Secretary - WV DEP
“OSM Update on
Reforestation”
by Brent Wahlquist, Director - OSMRE
| 29.1MB | Playtime - 8 minutes 45 seconds |
“Overview of ARRI – FRA
Advisory Update”
[23
pages] by Carl Zipper, ARRI Science Team |
Associate Professor, Crop and Soil Environmental Science Virginia Tech
“FRA Step 1 - Suitable
Rooting Medium - Research”
[48 pages] by Jeff Skousen, Professor - WVU
“FRA Step 1 - Suitable
Rooting Medium - Regulations”
[47 pages]
by Scott Eggerud, Forester - WVDEP
“FRA Step 1 - Suitable
Rooting Medium - Practice”
[35 pages]
by Mike Isabell,
Manager of
Environmental Affairs - Consol
Energy
"FRA Step 2 -
Low and Compaction Grading - Research"
[31 pages]
by Jim Burger, Garland Gray Professor of Forestry and Soil Science,
Department of Forestry, Virginia Tech
“FRA Step 2 - Grading and
Compaction - Regulations”
[20 pages]
by Brad Edwards, Reclamation Specialist
- OSM, Morgantown WV
“FRA Step 3 – Compatible
Groundcovers - Research”
[24 pages] by Jennifer Franklin, Asst Professor - University
of TN
“FRA Step 3 – Compatible
Groundcovers - Practice”
[13 pages] by Lance E. Schultz, President & CEO HydroTech Reclamation Services Charleston, WV; Rental & Water Management Division Manager,
Service Pump & Supply (SPS) Huntington, WV
“FRA Steps 4 & 5 – Tree
Species, Planting Techniques, and Future Economic Benefits”
[45 pages] by Tim Probert, Senior Scientist/Forester
Marshall Miller & Associates
“FRA Step 4 – Wildlife
Benefits”
[18 pages]
by Christy Johnson-Hughes, US Fish & Wildlife Service, WV Field Office
“Measuring FRA Success in
Appalachia”
[43 pages] by Patrick Angel, Forester - OSM, Lexington and Jim Burger, Professor
of Forestry and Soil Science - VA Tech
“Brownfields: A Funding
Source for Reforestation”
[15 pages] by George Carico, Director - WV
Brownfield Assistance
Center at Marshall University
“The American Chestnut
Foundation's Breeding Program, Restoration on Minelands”
[14 pages] by F. V. Hebard, Staff Pathologist -
Meadowview
Research Farms American Chestnut Foundation
*Please note: These presentations were initially given in PowerPoint and have had the speakers notes removed.