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Bond Release Interactive Forum 1999
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Bond Release Interactive Forum 1999 Approaching Bond Release: Revegetation, Reclamation Issues, and Surface-Mining Applications in the Arid and Semi-Arid West
During
the period September 20 through 24, 1999, the Office of Surface Mining’s
(OSM’s) Western Regional Coordinating Center, Denver, Colorado, sponsored
an interactive forum that addressed bond release as it relates to revegetation
issues on surface coal minesites in the arid and semi-arid West. This
forum was the second in what OSM hopes will become a series of five annual
forums regarding surface-mining bond-release topics. It was held in Flagstaff,
Arizona.
Among the revegetation topics covered at the 1999 forum were soil, overburden,
microclimate, site engineering and other management techniques as these
pertain to plant materials, and culturally and historically significant
plants. The forum also covered bond release criteria–including characterization
and measure and evaluation criteria–and spoke to other issues related
to achieving bond release.
The
proceedings constitute a partial compilation of the fruits of what proved
to be this very valuable interactive forum. They consist of everything
from the opening remarks of the Chairman of the Hopi Tribe on through
some 50 presentations made by professionals possessing a wide range of
diverse and divergent bond release, reclamation, and revegetation expertise.
Among these experts were representatives of the coal-reclamation staff
of six of the Western coal-primacy States, the Navajo National Historic
Preservation Department, the Hopi Tribal Office, the U.S. Department of
Agriculture’s Agricultural Research Service, the Natural Resource’s
Conservation Service, the U.S. Forest Service, the Flagstaff Arboretum,
OSM, and the coal industry and its consultants.
It
is with great pleasure that OSM offers the following compilation, which—with
the exception of some stylistic changes made in the interests of uniformity
of presentation—we have attempted to reproduce verbatim. We would
like to extend our sincere thanks to all who made presentations at or
otherwise attended the 1999 interactive forum. It is both our hope and
our strong conviction that colloquia such as this one was stand greatly
to benefit the cause of successful reclamation in the arid and semi-arid
West.
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