Planners, designers, scientists, and citizens are interested in rehabilitation, reclamation and protection of the post-mining environment. Consequently, a fair amount of research from scholars is focused on the technical aspects concerning the revegetation of the landscape and the science of reclamation; while only a small portion of the literature concerns planning and design. In this thesis, a case study in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan is used to explore post-ming treatments: abandoned mine, resort development. a super hotel resot, and natural vegetation communities. The treatments (k=4) were evaluated with an environmental quality measure upon 10 images from each treatment (b=10). The results indicated that the resort and the natural community were best treatments, significantly better than the abandoned mine treatment (p<0.05). The super hotel was ranked as the third, which is less preferred than the two best treatments, but much better than the abandoned mine treatment (p<0.05). By identifying difference between each treatment, the results shows people have preference for natural environment and natural landscape is beautiful in their views.
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