Trees are
your best antiques...
Alexander Smith, (1830-1867) Scottish Poet
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3rd Annual Arbor
Day
Tree Planting Event
Hosted by Kopper Glo Fuel, Inc.
Tackett Creek Surface Mine #2
Claiborne County, Tennessee26 April 2011
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Office of Surface Mining (OSM) volunteers
Will Debord (close up) and Tim Rudder (in background)
teaching students how to plant bare root
seedlings
to reclaim the coal mining site at Kopper Glo |
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James Thacker with Kopper Glo Fuel
instructs the students on site safety
and how coal mining is performed on the site
where they planted trees on this day |
Kopper Glo Fuel, Inc. hosted the Arbor
Day 2011 event at its Tackett Creek Surface Mine #2 in Claiborne County,
Tennessee. Students at Clairfield and White Oak Elementary Schools
established indoor American chestnut nurseries in their classrooms in early
2011 and then transplanted them at the planting event in April. In addition
to their potted American chestnut seedlings, students also planted
bare-root seedlings of various species provided by Kopper Glo Fuel.
Tennessee Mining Association
and
Geo/Environmental Associates, Inc.
provided several hundred American chestnut bare-root seedlings for planting. |
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See
classroom nurseries
set up for
today's planting
See Mine Reclamation
Lesson
of today's site |
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Lunch is served!
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The rains held off and about 50 students from
White Oak and Clairfield Schools joined
volunteers from Kopper Glo Fuel, the Office of Surface Mining,
Tennessee
Mining Association, Anderson County's The LEARN Center Alternative School, and
Geo/Environmental
Associates, Inc. to get several hundred trees into the ground.
Afterwards, the planters ate lunch at the site. OSM volunteers
included: Tom Haywood, Chris Miller, Will
Debord, Tim Rudder and Vic Davis |
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Roxanne Reiley with
TMA and students |
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James Thacker with
Kopper Glo and
young tree planter |
Vic Davis with
OSM with students |
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Wes Gilmer of Kopper
Glo Fuel with students |
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Vic Davis,
Forester with OSM |
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Group shot!! |
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Thank you note! |
