• Society: Issues: Environment: Mining  (29)

• Characterization and Quality of Soils Developing on a Mountaintop Removal Coal Mine - Study describes and characterizes different aged mine soils on a reclaimed site and on contiguous native soils. Includes references. [PDF]
• Low Mine Soil Compaction Research - Ongoing study to evaluate the effects of soil compaction on the survivability and growth of high value tree species at the Starfire Mine in Perry County, Kentucky. [PDF]
• Midatlantic Mountaintop Mining - Explains the process of mountaintop mining, the regulations, the environmental impacts and the efforts made to protect healthy waters and restore degraded waters within watersheds affected by coal mining. [PDF]
• Mountaintop Mining/Valley Fill in Appalachia - Final programmatic environmental impact statement from the Environmental Protection Agency. Includes a summary and references. [PDF]
• Small Mammal Communities on a Reclaimed Mountaintop Mine/Valley Fill Landscape in Southern West Virginia - Study examines effects on terrestrial wildlife species. Includes maps, aerial photographs and references. [PDF]
• Soil Horizon Development on a Mountaintop Surface Mine in Southern West Virginia - Evaluates the quality of soils developing on a reclaimed mountaintop removal mine in southern West Virginia. Includes photographs.
• Woody Establishment Patterns Following Mountaintop Removal in The Coal River Valley - Study examines whether vegetation patterns exist for specific man-made land forms following this mining practice. [PDF]

• Leveling a Mountain of Research on Mountaintop Removal Strip Mining - Excerpt from the July 2004 update to the February 2004 Union of Concerned Scientists report "Scientific Integrity in Policymaking." (July 1, 2004)
• Downstream Effects of Mountaintop Coal Mining - Report comparing the biological conditions using family- and genus-level macroinvertebrate bioassessment tools. Includes references. [PDF] (January 24, 2001)
• A Geologic Overview of Mountaintop Removal Mining - West Virginia Geological and Economic Survey coal geologists report to the Economic Committee of the Governor's Task Force on Mountaintop Removal and Related Mining Methods. [PDF] (October 26, 1998)

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