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Hope Mine
Biochar and Hope Mine Reclamation Project: Project Goals - * Use Mountain Pine Beetle killed trees from Smuggler Mountain and other areas to create biochar. These trees, if left in the forest, will decompose and emit CO2, but if turned into biochar that CO2 can be sequestered. * Use the biochar to conduct an experiment at the Hope Mine site to reclaim toxins, heavy metals, and restore the natural ecosystem. * Protect our watershed.  Potential Outcomes - * Carbon sequestration. * Reclamation of mine tailings. * Restore the health of the stream and riparian habitats that are currently adversely affected by mine tailings in the water. What is Biochar? click here for a great short video on biochar>> "If you could continually turn a lot of organic material into biochar, you could, over time, reverse the history of the last two hundred years... We can, literally, start sucking some of the carbon that our predecessors have poured into the atmosphere down through our weeds and stalks and stick it back in the ground. We can run the movie backward. We can un-mine some of the coal, undrill some of the oil. We can take at least pieces of the Earth and - this is something we haven't done for quite a while - leave them Better Than We Found Them." ~Bill McKibben, professor, author, climate activist and founder of 350.org |
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SIGN UP FOR SUMMER 2010 FOREST EDUCATION CLASSES! For The Forest in partnership with ACES is hosting a range of fun and interesting forest education classes. Click Here for details>> FOLLOW FOR THE FOREST ON TWITTER! Get updates and links to the leading science on forest health. For The Forest on twitter SMUGGLER MOUNTAIN PROJECT FINAL REPORT Click here>> LEARN ABOUT THE SMUGGLER MOUNTAIN PROJECT FAQ to bring you up to speed with what happened on Smuggler Mountain. Click here >> GET VERBENONE TO TREAT YOUR TREES, LEARN HOW TO USE IT Find out where you can buy Verbenone in the Roaring Fork Valley, and how to apply it to protect your trees from the mountian pine beetle. Click here to learn more about Verbenone>> "A CALL TO ACTION" View the 2009 short documentary about the mountain pine beetle epidemic by Emmy award winning filmmaker, Greg Poschman. Narrated by Olympic medalist Chris Klug, the film details the consequences of living close to forests infected by pine beetle and an outline of what residents can do. Click here to view the film >> THE MERRITT EXPERIENCE Learn about Merritt, British Columbia, a small town that was successful in saving their trees from mountain pine beetle devastation with a forest management plan. Click here to view the Merritt Experience>> ANIMATED BEETLE KILL MAP View a Colorado State map to see how the mountain pine beetle infestation has been progressing Click here to view the map>> GET INVOLVED with For The Forest. Act now >> SIGN UP TO RECEIVE THE FOR THE FOREST E-UPDATE Subscribe for a monthly digest of news and reports from For The Forest. Act now >> |
