Forest Planting On Coal Lands PDF Download

Excerpt from Forest Planting Possibilities on Indiana Coal-Stripped Lands Experiment Station. 2/ Numbers in parenthesis refer to literature cited. Over 60 percent of the coal-stripped lands of Indiana has a good to fair density of natural or introduced forest cover accord ing to a study completed in 1947 An additional 2 percent of these lands had been converted to pasture and another 9 percent were well covered with grasses, legumes, and weeds. The remaining mine banks were classified as barren. They were made up of recent strippings and of lands too acid for immediate use. The field examination indicated that probably 95 percent of all coal-stripped lands in the state could be converted to productive uses. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.