Restoring Legacy Mined Lands in Appalachia | One Tree Planted
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- Опубликовано: 12 янв 2022
- Reforesting legacy mined lands in Appalachia in collaboration with Green Forests Work to create healthy, productive, and biodiverse forests.
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The Appalachian region has some of the richest temperate forests in the world. Coal mining has been an economic driver since the 1700 and1800’s, but with mining, there have been major impacts on the environment such as habitat loss, water and air pollution, and safety issues.
Since 1970, mined lands in the region have not been restored properly as an unintentional consequence of the Surface Mining and Reclamation Act. After coal is mined, the mining companies have to reconstruct the mountains and reseed the area. In that process they compact the land to prevent landslides, but this hinders the ability of the native plant, tree, and wildlife species to repopulate the area.
Before being mined, Appalachian ecosystems had healthy, productive, and biodiverse forests that supported local organisms and communities. To return this land to a state where life can thrive, invasive species need to be removed and the soil needs to be ripped up to decompact the site. Once that process is complete, adjacent forests can start to seed into the new area, and water and nutrients will be able to infiltrate the soil making survival for new trees possible.
In collaboration with Green Forests Work, One Tree Planted is reforesting about 800 acres of formerly mined lands in Pennsylvania, and we expect this area to sequester about 80,000 metric tons of CO2 after 50 years. This work is collaborative and brings many different organizations and interests together.
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Forests; the place to lose your daily grind and to find your soul. Great people, great job!
Thanks so much for your support🌲😊
As a former Pennsylvania resident who now lives in Colorado, I have attended two tree planting events in Colorado with One tree planted. These are amazing people doing amazing things. I am so glad to see my former home being restored. Thank you.
Thank you so much for all of your support and for coming out to get your hands in the dirt with us too🌱
Very powerful video! Hats off to these people
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Bless anyone involved in this project. 🙏 ❤️ 🌲 🌍
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Fantastic videography and fantastic project!
My biological father, who passed away before I knew him, was born and raised in Appalachia (Whitley County, Ky). I appreciate the opportunity to have made a donation to One Tree Planted, in honor of him and the place he called home. Thank you for the important work you all do.
What a beautiful sentiment 🌲😊💚
amazing 💚💙💛🔥🔥🔥🔥
Thank you🌱
A couple of years ago, I donated to have trees planted in Appalachia for my grandmother and great-aunt's birthday, as they were originally from Kentucky, and they loved it!
What a great birthday gift!🌱
Nice! Very awesome thank you for your work
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WOWED!!!! 🌱
Thank you🌱
Thanks for all you do 🌲 proudly donated
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Amazing work! Amazing to see such commitment to restoring what was destroyed. And restore it properly. Please make sure you show us the follow up videos after 2-3 years. Let's see those trees growing and thriving!!
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Love this thanks for all your work
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I hope we get to a situation where natural reforestation and afforestation projects plant more trees than are being cut down.
One tree at a time we hope to get there 🌲😊
It just confounds me that more focus from the media isn't given to such a profound project as this!! I had no idea about any of this! I can't wait to help out!! Thank you for sharing!! ♥️
I heard chestnuts were a big thing in these forests too!
Yes. American chestnut trees. There are projects to bring them back and I think you can buy one if you want to
Keep planting them trees and shrubs make the planet a better place
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Given the level of poverty resulting in the mining companies having moved on or as is happening now with financially strong preferences for installations of renewables resulting in mining companies going bust, the employment opportunities provided by 🌲 planting must come as a very welcome economic and social relief. Deforestation doesn't just cause poverty, inequality and ill health in poor nations, it happens in rich ones too.
Yes! Investing in forests is investing in communities🌲😊
@@onetreeplanted The other crucial aspect of One 🌲 Planted & it's partnerships is you're all more than amply able to demonstrate that the transition to sustainable energy & transportation, energy efficiency, climate change prevention, mitigation, & adaption doesn't have to be an either or situation in terms of employment, quality of life, political leanings etc etc. In fact, it's quite the opposite. This is quite important, especially in a country such as the USA where the vested interests - both political & economic (just look @ Joe Manchin 😑), public fear due a basic lack of education/understanding of how important it is to address human induced climate change or else & sadly, that anthropogenic climate change is even real.
Worldwide, but particularly in the USA, most STILL don't get it that their accustomed standards of living is about to fall of a cliff due to climate change; affordable food, access to clean H20 , affordable energy for heating, cooking, hot H20, transportation & reliability of all of the above, is not that far from being for the wealthier sections of society.
If the general public truly understood what's at stake/in store for them, Gov'ts would have virtually no issues with making & funding the incredibly difficult changes 'quick smart' as we used to say when I was a kid. The political tribalism that's so dominant in the US, particularly at federal level, would disappear down the plug hole; politicians worldwide can't say they weren't told how bad it's going to get & how quickly. Claiming: "Oh, but you didn't tell us", just won't cut the mustard.
The most important thing is that wildlife finally gets a chance of survival and the ecosystem gets fixed again.
@@BalboaBaggins Kind of have to respectfully disagree there. To achieve the the crucial aspects you quite right point out, without community empowerment/ involvement, it's extremely to almost impossible to successfully implement the former as has been shown by many earlier project failures. It's why One Tree Planted, The Eden Project & many other such groups/organisations put community front & centre (before) even considering anything else. A lot of well meaning projects failed miserably, wasting large sums of donors & public money by not putting people front & center. Big difference between 'planting' a 🌲 & 'growing' a 🌲.
The work seems huge, I hope you get to achieve it all!
We're feeling good about it!🌱
There was about time good tree planting videos were on RUclips. We need representation out there, there's people who think trees are planted by machines 😂
Most people definitely do not know how much work it is to plant trees. That's part of the reason why we host community tree planting events. One of the most popular comments we hear is how it's a lot more work than they expected🌲😆
Even worse: most people don't even know the animals they eat are abused.
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There is so much land out there, not being used as it always was intented to be. So nice to see your dedication of giving this land back to nature.
Question; who owns these acres of land as seen in the video? Do you guys buy this and then plant trees or how does this work? Thanks!
The portion of the project in this video is from Gallitzin State Forest. In general, we plant on both public and private lands. So typically there are various types of partnerships that occur for a project to form. Part of our vetting process is to ensure that planting is intended for ecosystem restoration meaning, it is not intended for the trees to be harvested. We're still a pretty young nonprofit so we haven't quite gotten to a stage where buying land is in our model but maybe someday!🌱
Would love to see an update of this in like a decade. 🌲
We hope to be able to do that for many projects in the future🌱
Very inspiring! How might volunteers participate beyond just donating? I live in NY but would be interested in working on this type of project.
Hey Jon! We tend to have volunteer projects throughout NY during spring and fall! Sign up for our newsletter so you don't miss when we announce the dates: onetreeplanted.org/pages/newsletter-sign-up
Thank you so very much! I am in my eighties so not very efficient with a shovel but I will be supporting you financially. By the way, I live in S. California. Is there a video showing your work in my part of the world? Reforestation is in our part of the world is very important too because of the fires caused by climate change.
We've planted some trees in South Carolina but no videos yet! Here is a link to one of our recent Instagram posts about our Project in SC where we planted 20,000 trees!🌱instagram.com/p/CYB7NGDr7EU/
wow. 154 views and 15 Comments already. Now that's some ratio I have not seen before. Hats off
We hope more people will get to see this important work!🌱
They needer bigger mix of tree types. The companies sadly always have to use the cheapest fastest growing. But im glad they are trying.
What's the music used around 1:47? Also, it's a very powerful video.
great video but the audio is too loud and dramatic at times, hard to appreciate the dialogue if the audience has trouble hearing it :/
Thank you for your feedback🌱
How is Bio diversity managed? I see only Pine being planted. Good video and effort though.
Reforestation takes time and when you watch these videos keep in mind that you are seeing a very small portion of a huge project. A variety of trees were and will be planted in the affected area based on the needs of specific planting sites. Species include white pine, pitch pine, northern red oak, white oak, black cherry, bigtooth aspen, quaking aspen, black locust, silver maple, sycamore, eastern redbud, silky dogwood to name a few🌱
How can I support your work
Visit us at www.onetreeplanted.org🌱
very well but why do you plant only 2 types of trees and why only trees that don't give food to animals? can you plant also some type of fruit tree?
Where are you getting this info? There are over 23 species of trees planted on this project. 60% hardwoods, 30% conifers and 10% wildlife shrubs.
@@ericoliver2854 sorry, looking at the video seems you have only a few species
Hey Francesco! Reforestation takes time and when you watch these videos keep in mind that you are seeing a very small portion of a huge project. A variety of trees were and will be planted in the affected area based on the needs of specific planting sites. Species include white pine, pitch pine, northern red oak, white oak, black cherry, bigtooth aspen, quaking aspen, black locust, silver maple, sycamore, eastern redbud, silky dogwood to name a few🌱
Sad how these mining companies don't put enough money into doing reforestation properly. Doing it quickly and cheaply.
Together we can restore this land! One tree at a time🌲😊