In the first part of his inaugural lecture for the Land Reclamation International Graduate School, University of Alberta, Dr. Mohan Wali introduced the lessons from the science of ecology that laid the principles for reclamation science.
In Part 2, he describes his pioneering work on open-pit coal mine reclamation in North Dakota. He describes how the fundamental steps in reclamation discovered in his and others' research quite rapidly became regulation in North Dakota in the 1970s. Now with the challenge of global warming, he makes the case that reclamation is the global imperative.
Dr. Mohan Wali is Professor Emeritus, at the School of Environment and Natural Resources, Ohio State Environmental Science Graduate Program, John Glenn School of Public Affairs, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio USA.
View part 1 of this two-part series.
