In 2007, Green Forests Work, the University of Kentucky's Departments of Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering and Forestry and Natural Resources, initiated a novel watershed restoration program on a mountaintop removal and valley-filled coal mine in Breathitt County, Kentucky. In 2009, the ambitious project began by reestablishing nearly a mile of buried headwater stream, restoring the valley through digging up and replacing 150,000 cubic yards of mine spoil, and planting 40,000 native trees. Today, a thriving forested ecosystem has returned. This is just one example of the hundreds of sites we have restored. Read more about our projects here.