The article focuses on the significance of mine land reclamation strategies to restore American chestnut in the U.S. According to the author, hundreds of thousand of acres of reclaimed strip mines across the central Appalachian Mountains are experiencing arrest succession. The environmentalists are suggesting methods to speed up hardwood succession for reclamation purposes and to restore American chestnut. Moreover, the objective of the research are to utilize the basic Forest Reclamation Approach to assess the different forms of surface conditioning of mined soils relate to the survival and growth of American chestnut and other hardwood species.