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Conservationists Employ New Strategy To Reclaim Appalachian Landscape

Across Appalachia, there are more than a million acres of land that mining operations over the years left clear cut and barren. Now, conservationists are using a new strategy to bring the forests back. Andy Danyo Kubis (@andykubis)of The Allegheny Front reports.

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