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Figure 38.— Transplanted native aspens at Energy 1 mine in Colorado provide wildlife cover and sources of native plant seed 

 in tfie reclaimed land. At tfiis mine, a front-end loader is used to transport aspen, oak brusti, and serviceberry scrub clumps 

 from ttie areas being cleared to the reclaimed areas. Clumps are placed on leveled spoil, and topsoil is then spread around 

 the clumps. Piles of rock are also placed randomly on smoothed spoil prior to topsoiling to provide small animal habitat. 

 November 1978. 



Madison, Wisconsin, American Society of Agronomy- 

 Crop Science Society of America— Soil Science Society 

 of America, p. 467-483. 



Lindsey, D. L., Cress, W. A., and Aldon, E. F., 1977, The ef- 

 fects of endomycorrhizae on grov\/th of rabbitbrush, 

 fourwing saltbush, and corn on coal mine spoil material: 

 U.S. Forest Service Research Note RN-343, 6 p. 



Monsen, S. B., and Plummer, A. P., 1978, Plants and treat- 

 ment for revegetation of disturbed sites in the inter- 

 mountain area, in Wright, R. A., ed.. Reclamation of 

 disturbed arid lands: Albuquerque, University of New 

 Mexico Press, p. 155-173. 



National Academy of Sciences, Environmental Studies 

 Board, 1974, Rehabilitation potential of western coal 

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 Co., 198 p. 



Nobel, E. L, 1978a, Reclamation potential of selected strip 

 coal mines in Montana, North Dakota, and Wyoming: 

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mines in Arizona, Colorado, and New Mexico: U.S. Geo- 

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Packer, P. E., and Aldon, E. F., 1978, Revegetation techniques 

 for dry regions, in Schaller, F. W., and Sutton, P., eds.. 

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Packer, P. E., Jensen, C. E., Noble, E. L, Marshall, J. A., 1981, 

 A model to estimate revegetation potentials of land sur- 

 faces mined for coal in the west: U.S. Forest Service 

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Plummer, A. P., 1977, Revegetaton of disturbed intermoun- 

 tain area sites, in Thames, J. L, ed.. Reclamation and 

 use of disturbed land in the southwest; Tuscon, The Uni- 

 versity of Arizona Press, p. 302-339. 



Pole, M. W., Bauer, Armand, Zimmerman, LeRoy, and 

 Melstad, S. W., 1979, Effects of topsoil thickness placed 

 on spoilbanks on wheat and corn yields in North Dakota, 

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 meeting, Regina, Saskatchewan, 1979, Proceedings, 

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