A collaborative project on the restoration of Ohio strip-mine land is the focus of a front-page article in The Columbus Dispatch. School of Environment and Natural Resources soil microbiologists Richard Dick and Nicola Lorenz are part of a team that is studying native conservation of abandoned strip mine lands and are surveying mined soil at three sites to study microscopic organisms that help plants thrive.
Read more about the findings of this project in the journal of Ecological Engineering.