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  1. Soil microbiologist  Nicola Lorenz is part of a native conservation project on Ohio strip-mine land and is sampling the mined soils to investigate its qualities. Photo Credit:  Rebecca Swab, Ph.D Director of Restoration Ecology The Wilds

    Strip-mine land restoration efforts on front page of The Columbus Dispatch

    Sep 26, 2017

    A collaborative project on the restoration of Ohio strip-mine land is the focus of a front-page feature 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.