6th
Annual Arbor Day /
Tree Planting
Event on
Reclaimed Mine Land
Friday, 26 April
2013
Beautiful weather
and
scenic outdoor classroom!
Students using dibble bar to plant trees
What do Anderson, Campbell, Claiborne, and Morgan Counties have in common? They all have mine land prepared by the Forestry Reclamation Approach where American chestnuts have been planted.
OSM Forester Chris Miller taught us the
proper way to plant trees
Students with OSM's George Gunn
make great tree-planters!
At our 6th annual tree planting event, approximately 80 students from Lake City Middle School in Coal Creek (Anderson County) and Wynn-Habersham School in Campbell County planted 800+ American chestnuts and a variety of hardwoods on Triple H Coal Company property in Campbell County, Tennessee. In addition to transplanting potted American chestnuts they have been growing in their classrooms, students learned how to plant bare-root seedlings.
View previous American
Chestnut
and Arbor Day events.
Most of the group shown on the hillside after planting over 800 trees!!
The students were led by volunteers from the U.S. Office of Surface Mining (OSM), the Tennessee Mining Association, Triple H Coal Company, Coal Creek Watershed Foundation (CCWF), and Geo/Environmental Associates, Inc.. Afterwards, the planters enjoyed pizza delivered by Little Caesars of LaFollette and had a lesson about coal mining. We threw in oranges and apples and bottled water to be healthy!
Barry Thacker (L) planting American chestnuts
that students grew in their classrooms
Triple H Coal's Steve Bailey, Brent
Phillips and Alex Housley
with Roxanne Reiley of Tennessee Mining Association
Do you know that Tennessee miners wore bandanas to signify that they were part of the army fighting the state militia over the use of convict labor during the Coal Creek War from 1891 to 1892? Students continued that tradition by wearing bandanas at the planting event to signify they are part of the army working to restore the American chestnut to reclaimed mine land in Tennessee.
Beautiful drive up to the site
(L to R): Alex Housley of Triple H Coal, Roxanne
Reiley,of TN Mining Association and
Carol Moore of Coal Creek Watershed Foundation /
TN Mining Association
Vic Davis (L) and Earl Bandy of OSM (R)
Trees were planted on slope shown here
Wynn-Habersham students
View walking to planting site
