Minescapes: Reclaiming Minnesotas Mined Lands Kero Pete

Specifikacia Minescapes: Reclaiming Minnesotas Mined Lands Kero Pete

Stories from Minnesota's Iron Range highlight the challenges of competing needs on lands that offer opportunities for both mining and recreation.The Mesabi Iron Range in northeastern Minnesota conjures dramatic visuals of open pit mines and ore piles, enormous earthmoving equipment, and once-booming towns with aging architecture. But now many of these towns are busy with tourists. There are biking and ATV trails, forests and lakes. And yes, continued mining.Over the decades, people have approached the iron lands with differing perspectives. Early miners opened the Mesabi Range to extract its ore, but key players also upheld conservation principles by setting aside lower-quality rock for use by later generations with better technology. Nature found its way into the cracks and crevices of these rock piles, and within fifty years, groves of aspen and other