Word: colstrip
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...little town of Colstrip, a coal mining electric utility, Western Energy, is operating an eleven-acre test reclamation project at a working mine. The company has regraded the land and planted trees and several species of grass for a total cost of $700 an acre, which adds only pennies per ton to the total cost of obtaining coal. But local farmers and ranchers are not convinced, because reclamation is extremely difficult in the semiarid region (average rainfall: 14 in. per year). "If I used as much fertilizer as they did on that test site," says Rancher Wally McRae, "I could...
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