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Audio Recording Planning for reclamation and post-mining land use.

Planning for reclamation and post-mining land use.

About this Item

Title

  • Planning for reclamation and post-mining land use.

Names

  • Hall, Roger (Interviewee)
  • Hufford, Mary, 1952- (Interviewer)

Created / Published

  • October 25, 1995

Headings

  • -  Mountaintop removal
  • -  Reclamation
  • -  West Virginia. Division of Environmental Protection
  • -  Post-mining land use
  • -  Hardwoods
  • -  Approximate original contour
  • -  "Gully washers"
  • -  Commercial agriculture
  • -  Grasses
  • -  Hydroseeding
  • -  Legumes
  • -  Native woodlands
  • -  Topsoil
  • -  Ethnography
  • -  Interviews
  • -  West Virginia -- Kanawha County -- Nitro

Genre

  • Ethnography
  • Interviews

Notes

  • -  At the time of this interview, Roger Hall was the assistant director of the West Virginia Division of Environmental Protection, in Nitro.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • AFC 1999/008: CRF-MH-A072

Source Collection

  • Coal River Folklife Collection (AFC 1999/008)

Repository

  • American Folklife Center

Digital Id

Online Format

  • audio

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Credit line

Coal River Folklife Project collection (AFC 1999/008), American Folklife Center, Library of Congress

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Chicago citation style:

Hall, Roger, and Mary Hufford. Planning for Reclamation and Post-Mining Land Use. 1995. Audio. https://www.loc.gov/item/cmns001792/.

APA citation style:

Hall, R. & Hufford, M. (1995) Planning for Reclamation and Post-Mining Land Use. [Audio] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/cmns001792/.

MLA citation style:

Hall, Roger, and Mary Hufford. Planning for Reclamation and Post-Mining Land Use. 1995. Audio. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/cmns001792/>.