Reclamation Studies on Industrial Barrens in the Sudbury Region – a Progress Report

Organization
Laurentian University
Canadian Land Reclamation Association (CLRA)
Project
National CLRA Conference Papers
Resource Type
Report
Authors
Keith Winterhalder
Resource Date:
1976
Page Length
8

This presentation showed progress in revegetation research carried out under the sponsorship of the Ministry of Natural  Resources, Sudbury Region, and the Regional Municipality of Sudbury.  Main items covered include:

  • Semi-operational grass seeding north of Coniston.
  • Strip cultivation
  • Tickle Grass (Agrostis scabra) as a species for reclamation
  • Grass establishment on an open scrub-oak site near Skead
  • Revegetation of barren stony slopes
  • Revegetation of barren bog areas
  • pH dynamics in limed and unlimed soils