The Forest service will innoculate the soil with very moldy and bacteria ridden mulch before planting grass or trees on the strip mine.
Microbes comes are planted first, so to speak.
If these are pines, then --- that makes it esp important for almost all pines have a very symbiotic dependent relationship with all kinds of fungi. Soem pines cannot grow with out them.
Fukuoka, I have been reading up on him - just a Japaneses farmere -- hardly with all the books, and scientific papers he wrote - very impressive.
