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Leadership, practical and financial support by the mining companies was needed if the revegetation of the ruined landscape in and around Broken Hill, as envisaged by leading field naturalists, was to be achieved. Mine manager Keast and field naturalists Albert and Margaret Morris led the intelligent planting of mine leasehold land with indigenous and selected exotic species in a restoration experiment whose national and international significance gradually grew. By the end of the twentieth century a kilometre-wide strip of vegetation enclosed the city where once the land had been stripped bare. Mining in Broken Hill was the foundation of great technological advances and of the international financial conglomerate, BHP. Equally, the revegetation project was part of the establishment both of a pleasant inland city and of standards of conservation and sound restoration practice in mining nationwide and around the globe.
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Skilbeck, M. (2021). Recovery. In: Loving and Studying Nature. International Explorations in Outdoor and Environmental Education, vol 10. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-80751-1_3
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