Photograph of a thicket of field thistle (Cirsium arvense) near Sudbury, Ontario
Photograph of slag heaps at Coniston site, near Sudbury, Ontario
Photograph of two unidentified researchers examining a roast bed at the Falconbridge site, near Sudbury, Ontario
Photograph of a white pine (Pinus strobus) stump 3 kilometers from Copper Cliff site, near Sudbury, Ontario
Photograph of tufted hair grass (Deschampsia caespitosa) at Coniston site, near Sudbury, Ontario
Photograph of Tom Hutchinson and another unidentified researcher examining tailings at the Copper Cliff site, near Sudbury, Ontario
Aerial photograph of a lake in Killarney Provincial Park, near Sudbury, Ontario
Photograph of Kelly Lake, 3 kilometres from the Inco Superstack, near Sudbury, Ontario
Photograph showing the pouring of molten slag at Copper Cliff, near Sudbury, Ontario
Photograph of Tom Hutchinson standing amid slag heaps at Coniston, near Sudbury, Ontario
Photograph of mining detritus on the north side of Kelly Lake, Copper Cliff site, near Sudbury, Ontario
Photograph of slag heaps near the lakeshore at the Coniston site, near Sudbury, Ontario
Photograph of slag heaps and sparse trees at Coniston site, near Sudbury, Ontario
Photograph of Tom Hutchinson standing amid a birch stand, near Sudbury, Ontario
Photograph of tailings growing trials with a gravel base at the Nickel Rim site, Falconbridge, near Sudbury, Ontario
Photograph of a tailings reclamation site at Copper Cliff, near Sudbury, Ontario
Photograph of wooden tailings pipes at the Copper Cliff site, near Sudbury, Ontario
Photograph of an active tailings pond at the Copper Cliff site, near Sudbury, Ontario
Photograph of a tailings area with wooden pipes at the Copper Cliff site, near Sudbury, Ontario
Photograph of the revegetation of a former tailings area at the Copper Cliff site, near Sudbury, Ontario
Photograph of the revegetation of a former tailings area at the Copper Cliff site, near Sudbury, Ontario
Photograph of the revegetation of a former tailings area at the Copper Cliff site, near Sudbury, Ontario
Photograph of an active tailings pond at the Copper Cliff site, near Sudbury, Ontario
Photograph of a receding receiving pond showing iron precipitate pollution at Nickel Rim site, near Sudbury, Ontario
Photograph of slag heaps at the Coniston site, near Sudbury, Ontario
Photograph of the pouring of molten slag at the Copper Cliff site, near Sudbury, Ontario
Photograph of the revegetation of a former tailings area near the Inco Superstack at the Copper Cliff site, near Sudbury, Ontario
Photograph of nodding thread-moss (Pohlia nutans) at the Copper Cliff site, near Sudbury, Ontario
Photograph of tufted hair grass (Deschampsia caespitosa) and creeping bent grass (Agrostis stolonifera) at the Coniston site, near Sudbury, Ontario
Photograph of the revegetation of a former tailings area near the Inco Superstack at the Copper Cliff site, near Sudbury, Ontario
Photograph of purple fringed orchid (Habenaria fimbriata) at Wanapitei River, near Sudbury, Ontario
Photograph of Staghorn sumac (Rhus typhina) at Wanapitei River, near Sudbury, Ontario
Photograph of purple fringed orchid (Habenaria fimbriata) at Wanapitei River, near Sudbury, Ontario
Photograph of Staghorn sumac (Rhus typhina) at Wanapitei River, near Sudbury, Ontario
Photograph of exposed bedrock at the Coniston site, near Sudbury, Ontario
Photograph of purple fringed orchid (Habenaria fimbriata) at Wanapitei River, near Sudbury, Ontario
Photograph of orange hawkweed (Hieracium aurantiacum) and bird's foot trefoil (Lotus corniculatus) at Burwash, near Sudbury, Ontario
Photograph of orange hawkweed (Hieracium aurantiacum) at Burwash, near Sudbury, Ontario
Photograph of orange hawkweed (Hieracium aurantiacum) at Burwash, near Sudbury, Ontario
Photograph of the Inco Superstack at the Copper Cliff site, near Sudbury, Ontario
Photograph of a denuded hilltop 4 kilometres from the Copper Cliff site, near Sudbury, Ontario
Photograph of pond draining and slag heaps at the Coniston site, near Sudbury, Ontario
Photograph of unidentified researchers standing at the base of slag heaps at the Coniston site, near Sudbury, Ontario
Photograph of a control site about 30 kilometres from mining operations near Sudbury, Ontario
Photograph of the O'Donnell Roast Yard site near Sudbury, Ontario
Photograph of an active tailings site at Copper Cliff, near Sudbury, Ontario
Photograph of a slag heap drainage pond at Coniston, near Sudbury, Ontario
Photograph of an active tailings pond at Copper Cliff, near Sudbury, Ontario
Photograph of sparse vegetation regrowth at a tailings site at Copper Cliff, near Sudbury, Ontario
Photograph of a eight months of vegetation regrowth at a small controlled site at Nickel Rim, near Sudbury, Ontario
