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Container-grown seedlings show potential for afforestation of Pennsylvania coal-mine spoils

In addition to the usual problems associated with tree planting, coal-mine spoils have adverse physical characteristics: detrimental chemical levels. lack of organic matter, and droughty situations. Thus any planting method, technique. or material that would alleviate one or more of the problem factors, without intensifying others, would greatly enhance the success of afforestation efforts on such areas.


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Author(s): Walter H. Davidson, Edward A. Sowa

Publication: Tree Planters' Notes - Volume 25, Number 4 (1974)

Volume: 25

Number: 4