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2022

2022

NEWS ARCHIVE

2024

Mastercard Newsroom, "On an Old Kentucky Coal Mine, He's Rebuilding a Forest — and Perhaps the Local Economy"

AMJV Annual Report, GFW work highlighted

2023

UKNOW, "Fulbright Awardee Leads Reforestation Efforts in Australia"

The Nature Conservancy, "A New Future for Mine Lands in the Central Appalachians"

AMJV Annual Report, GFW work highlighted

UKNOW, "Kentucky Professor Collaborates with U.S. Consulate General to Mitigate Australian Climate Change"

2022

The New York Times, "At Old Coal Mines, the American Chestnut Tries for a Comeback"

Fulbright Australia, Dr. Christopher  Barton: Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Science, Technology and Innovation

Lexington Herald-Leader, "The Trouble with Troublesome Creek: How One KY Stream Became the Center of a Flood Disaster"

Green Forests Work, University of Virginia student and Green Forests Work Summer Intern Otis Katz

Eastern Standard, "Why the mountainous topography of Eastern Kentucky is so prone to flash flooding"

University of Kentucky Students Examine Wildlife Use on Reforestation Areas in the Monongahela National Forest, West Virginia

One Tree Planted, "Restoring Legacy Mined Lands in Appalachia"

1T.org, "Green Forests Work to Restore 5 Million Trees on Surface Mined Lands in Appalachia and Beyond"

Sierra Club Magazine, "The Demise and Potential Revival of the American Chestnut"

EARTH, with John Holden "Komatsu, Del Monte Foods, Veritiv Corp, MFS Investments, Smithfield Foods"

2015

The Forestry Source, "Green Forests Work leads return of forests to reclaimed Appalachian coal mine lands"
UK Ag News, "Bee happy: Eighth graders plant native wildflowers in Cane Run watershed"
Bay Journal, "American Chestnuts rise where other trees failed to make a stand​"
Soil Horizons, "Restoring Appalachian forests begins with restoring the soil"
Inside Energy, "Legacy of coal: prairies from Kentucky mountains"
Lexington Herald Leader, "Group plants trees in Eastern Kentucky as part of effort to reforest strip-mined land"
Lexington Herald Leader, "SOAR overlooking economic, job potential of forests"
Appalachian Mountains Joint Venture, "AMJV partnership receives $8 Million RCPP award to enhance cerulean habitat"

2013

Lexington Herald Leader, “Develop skilled Work Force to Reforest Strip-Mined Hills”

LEO Weekly, “A SOARing Start”

Lexington Herald Leader, “It's Always Better to Err on the Side of Air”

November 2013, WYMT, "Thousands of chestnut trees planted in Pike County"

October 2013, WVTF NPR Virginia, "Coal Mine Reclamation"

WMMT Making Connections, "Building Back a Forest"

Lexington Herald Leader, "Advocates Hope Obama's Plan to Fight Climate Change Will Boost Reforestation Effort" 

Gantdaily.com, "Headwaters Helps Fund Local Projects"

Hazard Herald, "We Need Coal, and We Also Need Other Things"

Biofuels Digest, "Can bioenergy help restore Kentucky’s mining-scarred lands?"

Yes! Magazine, "A New Deal for Appalachia’s Forests: Growing Biofuels?" 

TribLIVE, "Volunteers plant ‘living memory’ trees at Flight 93 National Memorial in Somerset County"

Radford University Environmental Center "Coalfields Alternative Spring Break a Success!"

Coal People Magazine, "Surface Mines are Playing an Important Part in American Chestnut Restoration" 

Virginia Forestry Association, "American Chestnut Trees to Help Restore Mine Lands in Pound, Virginia" 

Tennessee Journalist, "Volunteers gather to reforest strip-mine and create bird habitats"

"American Chestnut and Elm Planted at UVA-Wise"

Sewanee Today, "Sewanee Chestnut Planting Efforts Spread Beyond Campus"

Leadership U Alice Lloyd College, "Healing Appalachia: Students Work to Reclaim the Land"

American Rivers Press Release, "EPA and American Rivers Award Additional $300,000 In Grants To Protect And Restore Potomac Highlands Rivers And Lands In West Virginia"

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