 What is the purpose of the reclam crews?
But the fact that they had been expecting him meant that others would very probably be waiting outside. A WORK truck picked Zarwell up the next morning and he rode with a tech crew to the edge of the reclam area. The reclam crews filled and sodded the sterile rock, planted binding grasses, grain and trees, and diverted rivers to keep it fertile. They were loaded with ore that would be smelted into metal for depleted Earth, or for other colonies short of minerals. Zarwell pulled his sun helmet lower, to better guard his hot, dry features. After its three-thousand-mile journey across scorched sterile rock, it sucked the moisture from a man’s body, bringing a membrane-shrinking dryness to the nostrils as it was breathed in.
 To establish habitable human settlements after the destruction of Earth
 To imprison anyone who breaks the Meninger oath of inviolate confidence  To establish habitable human settlements after the destruction of Earth  To search for minerals that could be used to produce serum for comanalyses  To reclaim fugitives from resistance movements and force them into captivity