Mine Land Stewardship Initiative by the Appalachian Wildlife Foundation
1. 1005 South Main Street, Suite 104
Corbin, KY 40701
www.appalachianwildlife.com
2. Appalachian Wildlife Foundation
• Established 2009
• Ecological restoration and wildlife
conservation with energy industries –
primarily the coal industry
• Mine Land Stewardship Initiative
• Endangered Species management
Appalachian Wildlife Foundation
9. 20th Century Wildlife Restoration
Most of these are after 1977
• White-tailed Deer
• Black Bear
• Elk
• Wild Turkey
• Osprey
• Beavers
• Otters
• Wood ducks
• Canada Geese
• Bald Eagle
10. Mine Land Stewardship Initiative
• Natural Resource Partners
• Alpha Natural Resources
• International Coal Group > Arch Coal
• TECO Coal
• Patriot Coal
• American Electric Power
• Duke Energy
• 22 Wildlife Conservation Organizations
11. Mine Land Stewardship Initiative
• Improve performance of the coal industry
through market incentives.
• Ecological performance
• Community support, public access for
recreation, tourism, etc.
12. What is the Objective?
What is “Wildlife”?
If you are managing for everything,
you are managing for nothing.
14. Guilds of Species Have
Different Habitat Needs
• Mature forest interior
• Grasslands
• Young forest and shrub habitats
• Edge habitats
• Generalists
• Specialists
• Diversity
15. Stream Protection Rule DEIS
• “Alternatives 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 (in areas subject to
the enhanced permitting requirements), and 8
(Preferred) require reforestation of previously
forested areas and of lands that would revert
to forest under conditions of natural
succession (with an exception for prime
farmland). Reforestation would be
implemented in a manner that expeditiously
enhances the recovery of the native forest
ecosystem”. Page 4-99
19. Wildlife Impact Hierarchy
• Avoid impacts
• Minimize impacts
• Mitigate for impacts
• How can we design this
project/mine/gas well complex to
benefit certain wildlife species?