Title: Land Reborn
Subtitle: Conotton Creek subwatershed analysis
Description: Following the enactment of a state severance tax on surface-mined coal production, the state was inventoried to determine the extent of unreclaimed mined land and acid mine drainage.  Tax revenues were to be used for reclamation.  This analysis looked at a typical mining-damaged area (Conotton Creek, Stark County) and applied the new (in 1974) concept of land capability analysis to provide a template of how such areas could be evaluated and restored to productive use.
Subjects: Environmental aspects of Strip mining, Reclamation of land, Strip mining
Places: Ohio, Stark county, Conotton Creek
Time periods: 1974