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Andy Kubis is a freelance producer based in Pittsburgh. She is The Allegheny Front's digital editor and producer of the Trump on Earth podcast. She has worked at NPR and as a producer for The Bob Edwards Show. Her environmental reporting has won top honors from the National Press Club and the Society for Environmental Journalists.

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Volunteers are helping reforest a former mine site with native tree species including white pine, quaking aspen, red oaks and black locusts.

June 7, 2019 | 11:22 AM

A new strategy to regrow a forest on abandoned mineland: Start by tearing up the earth

The relatively new technique counters what had been traditional practice. But, one forester said, “It’s more natural — the way it was supposed to be, the way it was before mining.”