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4.01.2008

American chestnuts used to restore strip mines in Tennessee, Virginia, Kentucky...

PIONEER, Tenn. (AP) — In a double-barreled approach to environmental restoration, Appalachian mountains scarred by strip-mining are being planted with American chestnut trees, a species that has been all but wiped out in the U.S. by a...

Posted by Thomas H. Sturgill at 12:03 PM
Labels: appalachian mountains, environment, landscape, mining, sustainability

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