Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Workers begin clearing brush and other debris from around the 66 abandoned zinc and iron mines of the Tar Creek area in Treece, Kan."

Report describing a study to use remote-sensing techniques to look for relationships between disturbances of the land, water, and vegetation with underground coal mines in the Cherry Creek basin of Kansas. The study looked at color and color-infared photographs, compared with water-quality data to successfully identify contamination and other potential problems.