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WhiteBlaze

03-11-2011, 11:30

<table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="7" style="vertical-align:top;"><tr><td width="80" align="center" valign="top"></td><td valign="top" class="j"> <div style="padding-top:0.8em;"><img alt="" height="1" width="1" /></div><div class="lh"><a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&usg=AFQjCNHuach8SZmvp7sOnNq***a5lpEr5w&url=http://yosemite.epa.gov/opa/admpress.nsf/0/4d74b2735b28233f852578500052393d?OpenDocument">Aircraft to help re-vegetate Appalachian Trail portion of Palmerton Zinc ...</a> U.S. EPA.gov (press release) â??The re-vegetation of Blue Mountain marks another step forward in a lengthy clean-up process and helps restore a beautiful portion of Appalachian Trail with native grasses, plants and shrubs so that it blends in naturally with the Pennsylvania ... <a class="p" href="http://news.google.com/news/more?pz=1&ned=us&ncl=dzD-XyYjuqsF5WM"></a></div></td></tr></table>

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mweinstone

03-21-2011, 07:50

that is so frikkin cool aint it? the mountain looks pritty great allready, compared to when i was 15, these seeds and fetelizer should be the finnishing touch that finnaly restors a carpet of green. all we ever had were the semi successfull re plantings of trees and the long awaited treeline to reappear, short though it is. its sparsness really needs these seeds. ive judged this areas recovery in part, by the reflective heat emited from the unaturaly bare grounds reduction over the decades. it has gone from a hot barren desert with no revegetation and no birdlife, to an almost normal area where visitors have to have the old damage line from the zinc plum, pointed out. kudos to the workers.

Slo-go'en

03-21-2011, 10:28

The first time I hike through PA in the mid 80's I remember the trial going over what appered to be a slag heap and then through an area of lunar landscape. It was very odd and somewhat depressing.

The second time I hiked through PA was a few years ago. That same area, while still somewhat baren, looked much better. For one thing, the slag heap was gone. All in all, I felt that the climb out of Lehigh gap and the couple of miles of open ridge was one of the more interesting sections of trail in PA. I hope the revegitation efforts don't ruin the ruin, if that makes any sense...

leaftye

03-21-2011, 11:26

It took ultrarunner Karl Meltzer 54 days, 21 hours and 12 minutes to run across the Appalachian Trail in 2008. Now, thanks to hiker Kevin Gallagher, who spent six months hiking the same 2174 miles, AT lovers can virtually run the trail in under five ...

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