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To: sandintoes who wrote (110660)	1/18/2006 12:37:22 PM
From: ManyMoose	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 225578

I've seen a fair amount of strip mining in Ohio, and it is ugly indeed. I don't know how much restoration has been done since I saw it in the 60s, but at that time the only think that would grow on those spoils was black locust. The water was green and probably poisonous. By comparison with oil extraction, strip coal mining is devastating. There is no comparison of any kind between mining and forest management. Clearcutting is a regeneration method with the objective of replacing an old, slow-growing forest with a new fast-growing one. Forests are renewable, unlike oil and coal extraction.