Evaluation of low spoil compaction techniques for hardwood forest establishment on an eastern Kentucky surface mine

American Society of Mining and Reclamation - 24th National Meetings of the American Society of Mining and Reclamation 2007: 30 Years of SMCRA and Beyond

Volumn 1, Issue , 2007, Pages 61-72

  Michels, Adam ^a   Barton, Christopher ^b   Cushing, Tamara ^b   Angel, Patrick ^c   Sweigard, Richard ^d   Graves, Donald ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^b Department of Forestry ^*  (United Kingdom)

^c Office of Surface Mining   (United States)

^d Mining Engineering   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bulk density; Compacted spoil; Hardwood tree performance

Indexed keywords

BLACK LOCUST; BULK DENSITY; COMPACTED SPOIL; DUMP TRUCKS; EASTERN KENTUCKY; GREEN ASH; HARDWOOD FORESTS; HARDWOOD SPECIES; KENTUCKY; MINE SPOIL; NUCLEAR DENSITIES; QUERCUS; QUERCUS RUBRA; RED OAK; ROBINIA PSEUDO-ACACIA; SINGLE PASS; STATISTICALLY SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCE; SURFACE MINES; SURVIVAL AND GROWTH; TREE HEIGHT; WHITE OAK;

COMPACTION; FORESTRY; HARDWOODS; TRUCKS;

RECLAMATION;

EID: 84865378262     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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