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Book A Plan for Revegetation Completion of Tennessee s Copper Basin

Download or read book A Plan for Revegetation Completion of Tennessee s Copper Basin written by Jack A. Muncy and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Revised Land and Resource Management for the Cherokee National Forest

Download or read book Revised Land and Resource Management for the Cherokee National Forest written by United States. Forest Service. Southern Region and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Ducktown Smoke

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  • Author : Duncan Maysilles
  • Publisher : UNC Press Books
  • Release : 2011-05-30
  • ISBN : 080787793X
  • Pages : 344 pages

Download or read book Ducktown Smoke written by Duncan Maysilles and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2011-05-30 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is hard to make a desert in a place that receives sixty inches of rain each year. But after decades of copper mining, all that remained of the old hardwood forests in the Ducktown Mining District of the Southern Appalachian Mountains was a fifty-square mile barren expanse of heavily gullied red hills--a landscape created by sulfur dioxide smoke from copper smelting and destructive logging practices. In Ducktown Smoke, Duncan Maysilles examines this environmental disaster, one of the worst the South has experienced, and its impact on environmental law and Appalachian conservation. Beginning in 1896, the widening destruction wrought in Tennessee, Georgia, and North Carolina by Ducktown copper mining spawned hundreds of private lawsuits, culminating in Georgia v. Tennessee Copper Co., the U.S. Supreme Court's first air pollution case. In its 1907 decision, the Court recognized for the first time the sovereign right of individual states to protect their natural resources from transborder pollution, a foundational opinion in the formation of American environmental law. Maysilles reveals how the Supreme Court case brought together the disparate forces of agrarian populism, industrial logging, and the forest conservation movement to set a legal precedent that remains relevant in environmental law today.

Book The Legacy of American Copper Smelting

Download or read book The Legacy of American Copper Smelting written by Bode J. Morin and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 2013-04-30 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout world history, copper has been a significant metal for a vast number of cultures, from the oldest civilizations on record to the Bronze Age and Greek and Roman antiquity. Though replaced by iron as the primary metal for tools and weapons in ancient civilizations, copper found new resurgence in the nineteenth century when it was discovered to have particularly high thermal and electrical conductivity. Copper mining quickly escalated into a large-scale industry, and because of its vast reserves and innovative mining techniques, the United States seized the reins of global production with the opening of significant copper mines in Tennessee and Michigan in the 1840s and Montana in the 1870s. Copper-mining prosperity and America’s dominance of the industry came with a heavy environmental price, however. As rich copper deposits declined with increased mining efforts, large deposits of leaner ores—oftentimes less than one percent pure—had to be mined to keep pace with America’s technological thirst for copper. Processing such ore left an inordinate amount of industrial waste, such as tailings and slag deposits from the refining process and toxic materials from the ores themselves, and copper mining regions around the United States began to see firsthand the landscape degradation wrought by the industry. In The Legacy of American Copper Smelting, Bode J. Morin examines America’s three premier copper sites: Michigan’s Keweenaw Peninsula, Tennessee’s Copper Basin, and Butte- Anaconda, Montana. Morin focuses on what the copper industry meant to the townspeople working in and around these three major sites while also exploring the smelters’ environmental effects. Each site dealt with pollution management differently, and each site had to balance an EPA-mandated cleanup effort alongside the preservation of a once-proud industry. Morin’s work sheds new light on the EPA’s efforts to utilize Superfund dollars and/or protocols to erase the environmental consequences of copper-smelting while locals and preservationists tried to keep memories of the copper industry alive in what were dying or declining post-industrial towns. This book will appeal to anyone interested in the American history of copper or heritage preservation studies, as well as historians of modern America, industrial technology, and the environment.

Book Soil Ecotoxicology

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  • Author : Joseph Tarradellas
  • Publisher : CRC Press
  • Release : 1996-12-23
  • ISBN : 9781566701341
  • Pages : 406 pages

Download or read book Soil Ecotoxicology written by Joseph Tarradellas and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 1996-12-23 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Soils are receptacles for a wide range of hazardous chemicals generated by human activities. Whether or not this contamination is deliberate, accurate toxicity assessments are important for health and economic reasons. Soil Ecotoxicology discusses the sources, fate, and transport of hazardous chemicals in soils. The fate (biodegradation and modeling) and the potential impacts of pesticides on soil ecosystems are emphasized, and methodologies for performing toxicity assessments are provided.

Book General Technical Report SRS

Download or read book General Technical Report SRS written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Patterns of Land Degradation and Restoration in the Copper Basin  Tennessee  and Their Influence on Soil Hydrologic Properties

Download or read book Patterns of Land Degradation and Restoration in the Copper Basin Tennessee and Their Influence on Soil Hydrologic Properties written by Louise Ellen Mathews and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Ozark Ouachita Highlands Assessment

Download or read book Ozark Ouachita Highlands Assessment written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Local Climate in the Copper Basin of Tennessee as Modified by the Removal of Vegetation  Classic Reprint

Download or read book Local Climate in the Copper Basin of Tennessee as Modified by the Removal of Vegetation Classic Reprint written by Charles Raymond Hursh and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-19 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Local Climate in the Copper Basin of Tennessee as Modified by the Removal of Vegetation The principle difference between the two grass belt stations was that station 2 was slightly more exposed than station 5 in regard to adjacent topography, and was 107 feet lower in elevation. Vegetation was similar at both grass-stations. The broomsedge did not form a sod. Grass clumps covered about 60 percent of the ground surface, but during the period of maximum growth the foliage shaded about 90 percent of the ground. As the leaves dried out the amount of surface. Shade was reduced to as low as 70 percent. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Book Management and Financial Deficiencies in Federal Mine Reclamation Programs

Download or read book Management and Financial Deficiencies in Federal Mine Reclamation Programs written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs. Subcommittee on Government Efficiency, Federalism, and the District of Columbia and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Reclamation of Drastically Disturbed Lands

Download or read book Reclamation of Drastically Disturbed Lands written by Richard I. Barnhisel and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 1118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Land reclamation, particularly of land disturbed by mining, is a major environmental issue throughout the world. Thirty-eight chapters explore the vast complexities involved in reclamation after large-scale disturbances and provide a broad range of perspectives and examples of reclamation efforts. Readers will find specifics, from mapping minesoil to policy-making, from geochemistry to large-scale topography, from the papermill to oil shale, and emerge with an overall understanding of reclamation strategies and challenges.

Book Ecosystem Management for Sustainability

Download or read book Ecosystem Management for Sustainability written by John Peine and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 1998-06-23 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the 21st century approaches, the need to put principles of sustainable living and ecosystem management into practice has never been so urgent. Ecosystem Management for Sustainability recognizes this need and shares the experiences of the editor and 54 contributing authors, each leaders in the advancement of ecosystem management and champions of the natural environment. The book uses the Man And Biosphere program as a case example of a wide variety of resource management activities at work. Through the multi-authored contributions to this book, documentation of a comprehensive spectrum of ecosystem management and sustainable development principles is achieved. Ecosystem Management for Sustainability provides a link between theory and practice of these two philosophies.

Book Journal of Soil and Water Conservation

Download or read book Journal of Soil and Water Conservation written by and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vol. 25, no. 1 contains the society's Lincoln Chapter's Resource conservation glossary.