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6. Photograph showing waste coal dumped below the entry of the abandoned 



Reminger coal mine in Utah 21 



7. Aerial photograph showing rows ot abandoned spoil piles at the Rosebud 



mine in Montana 22 



8. Photograph showing natural revegetation on the 19-year-old mine-waste 



dumps at the Elkol-Sorensen mine in Wyoming 23 



9. Photograph showing orphaned spoils naturally revegetated during the past 



35 years at the Indian Head mine in North Dakota 24 



10. Photograph of revegetated orphaned spoils at the North Beulah mine in 



North Dakota 25 



11. Photograph showing second season of revegetation by seeding at McKinley 



mine in New Mexico 26 



12. Photograph showing natural revegetation on spoil piles near the Seneca mines 



in Colorado 27 



13. Aerial photograph showing hummocky surface created by rounding off tops of 



spoils at an older part of the Seneca mine in Colorado 28 



14. Photograph showing graded and seeded spoil blending into the natural 



wooded terrain at the Absaloka mine in Montana 29 



15. Map showing mean annual precipitation for the western coal region States 30 



16. Map showing mean annual pan evaporation for the western coal region 



States 31 



17. Photograph showing grooved, mulched, and seeded slope at Seminoe 2 mine 



in Wyoming 32 



18. Photograph showing experimental water detention terraces at the San Juan 



mine in New Mexico 33 



19. Aerial photograph showing mining and reclamation sequence at the Energy 1 



mine in Colorado 34 



20. Closeup photograph showing a contour furrow at the Energy 1 mine in 



Colorado 35 



21. Photograph showing a rough, ditched, and grooved reclaimed area at the 



McKinley mine in New Mexico 36 



22. Photograph showing a graded highwall at the Big Sky mine in Montana 37 



23. Photograph showing eroded steep slope and natural revegetation of an old 



spoil pile along a haulroad at the Seminoe mines in Wyoming 38 



24. Photograph showing contrasting vegetation at the Indian Head mine in North 



Dakota 39 



25. Map of soil series and associations in the Spring Creek permit area of Mon- 



tana 40 



26. Photograph showing topsoll being spread on regraded spoil at Seminoe 2 



mine in Wyoming 41 



27. Photograph showing sprinkler irrigation on topsoiled, graded spoils at the San 



Juan mine in New Mexico 42 



28. Photograph showing a soil column used for State certification in reclamation 



topsoiling at the Black Mesa mine in Arizona 43 



29. Photograph showing topsoll borrow strips at the Dave Johnston mine in 



Wyoming 44 



30. Photograph showing densely revegetated slope of fourwing saltbush at the 



Navajo mine in New Mexico 45 



31. Photograph showing cattle graizing on young seedlings on a graded highwall 



at the Rosebud mine in Montana 46 



32. Photograph showing isolated 2- to 3-year-old saltbush plant on overgr£ized 



reclaimed ground at the Black Mesa mine in Arizona 47 



33. Photograph showing disturbed surface-mined land in various stages of revege- 



tation at the Dave Johnston mine in Wyoming 48 



34. Closeup photograph of a small native ponderosa pine transplanted in the 



spring of 1978 at the Absaloka mine in Montana 49 



35. Aerial photograph showing mining and reclamation sequence at the Rosebud 



mine in Montana 50 



36. Photograph showing reclaimed area of wheatgrasses, pines, and junipers at 



the Big Sky mine in Montana 51 



37. Photograph showing rocks and a dead tree that provide perches for hawks 



and owls on reclaimed area at the Rosebud mine in Montana 52 



