GAME COMMISSION USES MINING TO RECLAIM FORMER MINING SITE
HARRISBURG - To demonstrate how current mining practices can be used to fix problems caused by past mining practices for the betterment of wildlife, officials from the Pennsylvania Game Commission and E.P. Bender Coal Company Inc., of Carrolltown, today showcased completed wildlife habitat enhancement and abandoned mine reclamation projects on State Game Land (SGL) 108 in Dean Township, Cambria County.
The project began with the Pennsylvania Board of Game Commissioners approving, on June 22, 2004, a surface mining coal lease for a 60-acre parcel of SGL 120, which is comprised of 7,541 acres in Cambria and Clearfield counties. As part of the lease, which was executed on May 16, 2005, E.P. Bender could remove 390,000 tons of coal.
For more information and photos of "before and after", please visit the Pennsylvania Game Commission - State Wildlife Management Agency website:
http://www.pgc.state.pa.us/pgc/cwp/view.asp?a=11&Q=174436
