##  [Reclamation Studies on Industrial Barrens in the Sudbury Region – a Progress Report](/resource/reclamation-studies-industrial-barrens-sudbury-region-progress-report) 

Organization

[Laurentian University](/organization/laurentian-university)

[Canadian Land Reclamation Association (CLRA)](/organization/canadian-land-reclamation-association-clra)

 

 

Project

[National CLRA Conference Papers](/project/national-clra-conference-papers)

 

Resource Type

[Report](/taxonomy/term/38)

 

 

Author(s)

Keith Winterhalder

 

 

Original 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