2022

NEWS ARCHIVE

2025

• WJAC, "Local Students Join 'Wedd Warriors' to Help Plant Nearly Extinct Trees at Fort Roberdeau"

• Trib Live, "Native Planting Will Help the Wild to Reclaim Murrysville Acid Mine Remediation Site"

• WYMT Mountain News, "Volunteers Plant Trees on Former Mine Site"

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"

2021

• Arbor Day Foundation, "The Time for Trees Campaign"

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

• EOS, "The New River Gorge: Ancient River, Old Mines, New National Park"

2020

The Washington Post Magazine, "The Green Miles"

River Talks podcast, "Reforestation of Appalachia's Minelands"

2019

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

The Register Herald, "GFW is working with experts to restore forests throughout Appalachia. This time, they hope to get it right"

Associated Press, "Difficult but rewarding work: Planting trees to aid climate"

2018

World Resources Institute, "Once Degraded, West Virginia's Monongahela National Forest Is Restored to Glory"

UKNOW, "UK Researchers Awarded NSF Grant to Upgrade Stream Monitoring Network in Robinson Forest"

Voice of America, "Former West Virginia Coal Mines Turned into Carbon-sucking Forests"

2017

UKNOW, "UK Appalachian Center, GFW Plant 2,500 Trees for Earth Day"
The Appalachian Voice, "Restoring Land for Native Plants, Bees, and Streams"
Cool Green Science, "Recovery: Farm Bill Provides Hope for the Cerulean Warbler"
Yale Environment 360, "Reclaiming Appalachia: A Push to Bring Back Native Forests to Coal Country"

2016

The Appalachian Voice, "Reclaiming Mined Mountains to Beneficial Use"
WYMT, "Students Help Restore Old Reclaimed Coal Mine"

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"

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"

2012

US Department of Interior Press Release, "Interior Department Honors "Partners in Conservation" Award Winners"

Public News Service, "How Surface Mine Sites in Kentucky Could Mean Jobs for Veterans"

US Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources Conservation Service Press Release "NRCS and FWS Reach Historic Agreement to Extend Wildlife Conservation Efforts on Working Agricultural Lands

Lexington Herald-Leader, Editorial. "Honor Our Vets with Jobs Bill: Reforesting Appalachia Could be on Shovel-Ready Project

The Lane Report, "Heal the Land, Heal the Nation: UK Contingent Plants Trees on 911 Site

The Economist, "Appalachia Terraforming: Restoring Streams and Forests in Coal Country"