TY - GEN
T1 - Reclamation of prime agricultural farmlands
T2 - 2nd International Symposium on Land Reclamation and Ecological Restoration, LRER 2017
AU - Darmody, Robert G.
AU - McSweeney, Kevin
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 Taylor & Francis Group, London.
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - Illinois was an important location for innovation and evaluation of mine reclamation regulations, techniques, and approaches. Active surface and underground mining for coal is not what it was in the latter half of the previous century and before, but the reclaimed areas are a testimony to the efforts of the early pioneers in restoring mined and subsided land to their former agricultural productivity. Illinois has some of the best agricultural soils in the world, and underneath of much of that area is coal, thus promoting an enhanced sensitivity to good quality mined land reclamation. The University of Illinois was the lead agency in mine land reclamation research and established research plots to test various reclamation techniques and systems. Many of those plots remain in agriculture and the long term success of reclamation will indicate that the post mining improvements in the soils and landscapes are permanent and not a result of the intense management applied initially.
AB - Illinois was an important location for innovation and evaluation of mine reclamation regulations, techniques, and approaches. Active surface and underground mining for coal is not what it was in the latter half of the previous century and before, but the reclaimed areas are a testimony to the efforts of the early pioneers in restoring mined and subsided land to their former agricultural productivity. Illinois has some of the best agricultural soils in the world, and underneath of much of that area is coal, thus promoting an enhanced sensitivity to good quality mined land reclamation. The University of Illinois was the lead agency in mine land reclamation research and established research plots to test various reclamation techniques and systems. Many of those plots remain in agriculture and the long term success of reclamation will indicate that the post mining improvements in the soils and landscapes are permanent and not a result of the intense management applied initially.
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U2 - 10.1201/9781315166582-66
DO - 10.1201/9781315166582-66
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85056269811
SN - 9781138051034
T3 - Land Reclamation in Ecological Fragile Areas - Proceedings of the 2nd International Symposium on Land Reclamation and Ecological Restoration, LRER 2017
SP - 307
EP - 314
BT - Land Reclamation in Ecological Fragile Areas - Proceedings of the 2nd International Symposium on Land Reclamation and Ecological Restoration, LRER 2017
A2 - Hu, Zhenqi
PB - CRC Press/Balkema
Y2 - 20 October 2017 through 23 October 2017
ER -