[1] ASRS is a US-based professional society with membership from academics, students, consultants, and others concerned with mitigating environmental impacts.
Bill Plass, Dick Vande Linde and Ben Greene were responsible for establishing the roots of the organization which expanded regionally in 1973.
[2] Dr. Richard (Dick) Barnhisel, Professor of Agronomy and Geology at the University of Kentucky, served as the second executive secretary of the Society (1999-2012).
As part of the Society's name change in 2001, the TDs were reviewed and revised to continue the focal transition to reclamation as a whole, rather than mining alone.
The journal is designed for the dissemination of original knowledge regarding basic and applied solutions related to the reclamation, restoration, rehabilitation, and remediation of terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems and landscapes disturbed by a broad array of human activities.
Contributions included original research, case studies, field demonstrations, or policy reviews related to an aspect of ecosystem reclamation.
Technical topics emphasized at the meeting include, but are not limited to abandoned mine lands and the bipartisan infrastructure law, climate change, cover systems, educational outreach, geochemistry, geomorphic landform reclamation, mercury in the environment, PFAS/PFOA, rare earth/critical minerals and their recovery, innovations in reclamation, sediment and soil amendments, seeding and revegetation, stream and river restoration, mapping, remote sensing, urban restoration, and water treatment (active and passive).