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

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

2021

Arbor Day Foundation, "The Time for Trees Campaign"

World Economic Forum, Highlights of GFW's work in Appalachia

2019

Associated Press Taking Root Episode 3: "What Can Be Saved?"

2016

The Appalachian Voice, "Reclaiming Mined Mountains to Beneficial Use"
Green Forests Work, Summer Newsletter
Green Forests Work, Spring Newsletter
WYMT, "Students Help Restore Old Reclaimed Coal Mine"
Green Forests Work, Winter Newsletter

2014

Climate Change Response Framework, "Monongahela National Forest: Lambert Restoration Project"

PA Environment Digest, "American Chestnut Foundation Spring Mined Land Reforestation Plantings"

Life Science Academy, "Service Learning Spring Break 2014"

Bridgewater University, "Fighting Mountain-Top Removal with Mountain-Top Reforestation" 

Living on Earth, "Saving Chestnut Trees to Reclaim Mined Mountains" 

National Fish and Wildlife Foundation Press Release "Funding to Restore Forests on Abandoned Mine Lands"

The Allegheny Front, "Coalfields to Chestnuts: Innovative Reclamation"

Appalachian Mountains Joint Venture, "2013 Year In Review"

Lexington Herald- Leader, "Green Forests Work Tree Planting"

Salisbury Post, "Reforestation in Appalachia topic at Catawba College Event"

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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