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Publications Relating to Mine Reclamation/High Metals

Updated 11/24/2009

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Publications Types
Technical Notes
Major Publications
Plant Materials Progress Report of Activities
Miscellaneous Technical Article
Progress Report
Published Abstracts
Poster
Published Symposium Proceedings

Technical Notes

Glossary of Terminology Commonly Used In Mining and Reclamation Technology. (PDF; 150 KB) Munda, B. and M. Pater. 2001. USDA-NRCS Tucson Plant Materials Center, Tucson, AZ. TN-PM-1-1, Aug. 2001. 12p. (ID# 98)

Technical Note: Low maintenance trials of cool-season species on surface mines. (PDF; 20 KB) Douglas, J.L. and J.A. Wolfe. 1994. USDA-NRCS Jamie L. Whitten Plant Materials Center, Coffeeville, MS. Vol. 10(1). 9p. (ID# 652)

Technical Note 55: Germination responses and boron accumulation in germplasm from Chile and USA Grown with Boron Enriched Water. (PDF; 336 KB) Banuelos, G.S., H.A. Ajwa, L. Caceres, and D. Dyer. 1999. USDA-NRCS Lockeford Plant Materials Center, Lockeford, CA. CA-TN55, Mar. 1999. 23p. (ID# 103)

Major Publications

Development of seed sources and establishment methods for native upland reclamation - final report. (PDF; 420 KB) S. Pfaff, C. Maura, Jr., M.A. Gonter. 2002. Brooksville Plant Materials Center, Brooksville, FL. October 2001. 70p. (ID# 7231)

Plant Materials Progress Report of Activities

Strawberry Island (Slag) Final Report. (PDF; 267 KB) Koch, P. 1999. USDA-NRCS Rose Lake Plant Materials Center, East Lansing, MI. Jan. 1999. 12p. (ID# 1490)

Miscellaneous Technical Article

Pollinators and Plant Materials. (PDF; 2 MB) R. Alan Shadow. 2008. etpmc, Nacogdoches, texas. 11p. (ID# 8051)

Progress Report

WERA-21 Report, Idaho PMC. (PDF; 33KB) St. John, L., Tilley, D.J. and C. Hoag. 2007. Aberdeen PMC, Aberdeen, ID. 19 Jan 2007. 12p. (ID# 7067)

Final Report - Evaluation of Containerized Legumes and Forbs as Potential Revegetation Species for Molycorp Overburden Piles - 1995 Trial of Commercially Available and Molycorp Germplasm. (PDF; 1.2 MB) Dreesen, D.R. 2002. USDA-NRCS Los Lunas Plant Materials Center, Los Lunas, New Mexico. Feb.2002. 18p. (ID# 3860)

Final Report - Evaluation of Containerized Legumes for Revegetation of Molycorp Overburden Poles - 1996 Trial of Source-Identified Germplasm. (PDF; 281 KB) Dreesen, D.R. 2002. USDA-NRCS Los Lunas Plant Materials Center, Los Lunas, NM. Feb.2002. 7p. (ID# 3861)

Sand Point - Brownfield Reclamation Project, 2002 Rose Lake PMC Greenhouse Study. (PDF; 177 KB) Cooley, Z., T. Bush, and J. Rissler. 2002. Rearch and Data Collected at Rose Lake Plant Materials Center, East Lansing, MI. 4p. (ID# 3930)

Published Abstracts

Abstract--Revegetation Trials in the Pinedale Anticline Project Area. (PDF; 15kb) Winslow, S.R., K.J. Clause, J.S. Jacobs, & R.M. Hybner. 2009. 26th Annual Meeting American Society of Mining and Reclamation, Lexington, KY. 11th Billings Land Reclamation Symposium. 1p. (ID# 9089)

Development of Acid/Heavy Metal-Tolerant Cultivars. (PDF; 16 KB) Marty, L. 2000. Clark Fork Symposium, Missoula, MT, Bridger, MT. Apr. 2000. 1p. (ID# 1870)

Poster

Ten years of testing indigenous plant material on drastically disturbed land in western Montana. (PDF; 436 KB) Majerus, S. etal. 2005. Watershed Day, Helena, Montana, Bozeman, MT. 1p. (ID# 6009)

Published Symposium Proceedings

Revegetation Trials in the Pinedale Anticline Project Area. (PDF; 1372kb) Winslow, S.R., K.J. Clause, J.S. Jacobs, & R.M. Hybner. 2009. Bridger PMC, Lexington, KY. June 2009. 35p. (ID# 8743)

Root Growth of Apache Plume and Serviceberry on Molybdenum Mine Overburden in Northern New Mexico. (PDF; 238KB) Mary Williams, Mohammed Tahboub, John Harrington, David Dreesen, April Ulery. 2004. Seed and Soil Dynamics in Shrubland Ecosystems: Proceedings, Rocky Mountain Research Station, USDA Forest Service, Fort Collins, CO. RMRS-P-31, February 2004. 6p. (ID# 5938)

Percussion as an Alternative Scarification for New Mexico Locust and Black Locust Seed. (PDF; 164 KB) Khadduri, N., J. . Harrington, L.S. Rosnez, and D. R. Dreesen. 2002. National Nursery Proceedings - 1991, 2000, and 2001 USDA Forest Service, Ogden, Utah. Rocky Mountain Research Station Proceedings RMRS-P- 24. 7p. (ID# 3904)

Development of Acid/Heavy Metal-Tolerant Cultivars (DATC) Project. (PDF; 196 KB) Marty, L. 2000. Clark Fork Symposium, Missoula, MT, Bridger, MT. Apr. 2000. 9p. (ID# 1871)

The use of local ecotypes for the revegetation of acid/heavy metal contaminated lands in western Montana. (PDF; 75 KB) Marty, L. 2000. Proc. 2000 Billings Land Reclamation Symposium, Pages 216-228. 13p. (ID# 1872)

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