This report describes the work undertaken in using FORECAST to address the following questions: 1) Using standard growth and yield metrics, what productivity can be expected from soil prescriptions typically used to reclaim overburden material? 2) Does the quality of the secondary material (its organic carbon content) used as a subsoil have a significant impact upon ecosystem productivity? 3) How important to ecosystem productivity is the decomposition rate of the peat used in the cappint material? 4) Each prescription is designed to establish a particular overstory cover type and an associated understory community. The understory is important for its biodiversity and social values but overstory density and species composition are important determinants of understory vigor. How is understory development affected by the overstory, and how does this affect protocols designed to pomote understory development?