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Restoring the American
Chestnut
Operation Springboard |
3 March 2021
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Two 2019 Tree Planting Events on
Reclaimed Mining Sites
Kopper Glo Mining
Site
Copper Basin, TN
Mining Site
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RESULTS!
10th Annual Arbor Day
Planting Event where students from
Whitwell Middle School made history by planting
blight-resistant American chestnut hybrids on
mine land reclaimed by
Tennessee Consolidated/Lexington Coal Company
10 April 2018 |
RESULTS!!
Arbor Day Planting Event where students
from Copper Basin High School made history by
planting blight-resistant American chestnut hybrids
on mine land reclaimed by Copperhill Industries
Successful tree planting
in Polk County, TN
by the Forestry Reclamation Approach
17 April 2018 |
9th Annual Arbor Day
Planting Event where students
from Stone Elementary School made
history by planting blight-resistant
American Chestnut hybrids on
mine land reclaimed by
Crossville Coal Company Successful tree planting on the
plateau
in Cumberland County, TN on reclaimed
mine land prepared by the
Forestry Reclamation Approach
28 April 2017
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7th Annual Arbor Day
Tree Planting Event
Hosted by
DRC Coal Company LLC
with
Clairfield & White Oak
School students
Successful tree planting
on top of mountain in
Campbell Co, TN
on re-mined land prepared
by the
Forestry Reclamation Approach
21 April 2015 !!!
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SEE
RESULTS of our Annual Arbor Day Tree Planting Event with Lake City (Coal
Creek - Anderson County) Middle School and Wynn-Habersham School (Campbell
County) Students on a coal mining site. 26 April 2013 |

4th Annual
Indoor American Chestnut
Nurseries in Appalachian Schools
February 2012 |
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3rd
Annual Arbor Day tree planting event hosted by Kopper Glo Fuel, Inc.
Tackett Creek Surface Mine #2, Claiborne County, Tennessee - 26 April 2011 |
Elk Valley Elementary School
students plant American Chestnuts to
celebrate Arbor Day
on Zeb Mountain, Elk Valley, Tennessee |

3rd Annual
Indoor American Chestnut
Nurseries in Appalachian Schools
February 2011 |
2nd Annual
Indoor American Chestnut
Nurseries in Appalachian Schools
February 2010 |

Indoor American Chestnut Nursery
at Elk Valley School and Lake City Middle School
Engineering a Better Chestnut Pot
12 January 2009 |
Chestnuts
may grow on trees,
but coal does not:
Field trip by Coal Creek
and Elk Valley students to National Coal Corporation’s
Zeb Mountain surface mine |
Arbor
Day 2009 --
1200 trees planted!!
Saturday, 4 April 2009 |
Trout, American Chestnuts, and Coal Creek
Mining History:
9th Annual History/Ecology Field Trip for Briceville School 15 May 2009 |
2nd Annual Arbor Day Tree Planting
Event
to Restore the American Chestnut
Field Trip by Coal Creek and Elk Valley students
to a Reclaimed Surface Mine on Cross Mountain -- 12 April 2010 |