The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1951-07-05
Strip Nine Area
Reclaimed On
los Acres Here
Another Banner
Year Completed
In Reforestation

In keforeStatlon
Another banner year of strip
land reclamation, exceeding that
of last year by 592 acres, has
been announced by Larry Cook,
director of the Ohio Reclamation
Association, in his report on strip
mine reclamation activities for
this spring.
A total of 3217 acres including
1865 acres in Noble county of
the land stripped for coal and
other minerals was reclaimed this
year by the Association for sixty
eight of its members or by the
member companies themselves.
| ,642,8O0 trees were planted on
l,776 acres and l,44l acres were
seeded to grasses and forage
crops. This brings the total num-
Der of trees planted by the AS
sociation since its organization in
l945 to 7,471,675; the acres seeded
to 1903; and the acres reclaimed
to 1894 acres. All strip lands
reclaimed this year were graded
to conform with the law previous
to planting and all reclamation
was paid for by the strip land
operators.
Strip mine operator members
of the Ohio Reclamation associa-
ton in Noble county who partici-
pated in the planting and seeding
program this year included
Mount Perry Coal company,
GAINESVILLE and Union Carbide &
Carbon corporation, Dexter City.
There were 1865 acres planted
to trees by the two companies in
Noble county, according to the
Ohio Reclamation association.
In addition to the above, the
Ohio Power company has also
carried on an extensive reclama-
ton program of their own in
Brookfield township.
In addition to the planting
several lakes have been started
and stocked with fish in the re-
! claimed strip land areas during
the past year. Largest of these
was the one adjoining the new
Hanna Coal Company cleaning
plant south of Cadiz.
Trees planted this spring COM
prise saw timber, post and Christ
mas trees species, including
tulip, sycamore, chestnut oak,
white oak, black locust, red,
white, jack, pitch, Australian and
Scotch pine, douglas fir, Norway
spruce and red cedar. Paintings
of multiflora rose, japanese larch,
tatarian honeysuckle, Russian
mulberry and bicolor and inter-
media lespedeza were made
mostly on an experimental basis
for game food. Of the l,642, 800
trees planted 970,272 were pur-
chased from the nurseries of the
Ohio Division of Forestry, the
balance being obtained from
nurseries in Wisconsin, Michigan,
Tennessee, Missouri, Pennsyl-
vania and Indiana.
Grass and forage corp seedlings
were made in fourteen different
mixtures, varying in amounts
from twelve to twenty pounds
per acre, to conform to the soil
analysis of the areas seeded.
Species used we're alsike, white
sweet, yellow, red, white Dutch
and ladino clover, serician and
Korean lespedeza, alta and Ken
lucky 81 fescue, orchard grass,
timothy, red top, birdsfoot tre-
foil, ranger alfalfa and hubam.
This report of the Ohio Re-
clamation Association includes
the reclamation activities of ap-
proXimately one hundred of the
strip mine operators in Ohio. II
is the only organization of the
producers of coal and other min
erals by strip mining devoted to
the rehabilitation of strip lands
1t maintains an executive office
in Cleveland, and field offices
and soils laboratory at Cadiz
| Ohio.