Mine Permitting to Establish Productive Forests as Post-Mining Land Uses

Powell River ProjectBurger, James A.Zipper, Carl E.2015-07-302015-07-302009-09-29http://hdl.handle.net/10919/54951This publication suggests language that may be used by Virginia mine operators in mine permit applications when it is their intention to use the Forestry Reclamation Approach to produce native hardwood forests of superior productivity during reclamation. The procedures may be applied if the post-mining land use is designated in the permit as either commercial or unmanaged forest.4 pagesapplication/pdfen-USVirginia Cooperative Extension materials are available for public use, re-print, or citation without further permission, provided the use includes credit to the author and to Virginia Cooperative Extension, Virginia Tech, and Virginia State University.Mined Land ReclamationForestryMine Permitting to Establish Productive Forests as Post-Mining Land UsesExtension publicationhttp://pubs.ext.vt.edu/460/460-141/460-141_pdf.pdfMined landReclamationPermitsApplicationForestry