A large part of reclamation is centred around (end) land use. What will our site be once we are done with it?
As such. I'm a huge proponent of efficient and intelligent land use planning; something that is not happening in Canada. A large portion of Alberta is situated on extremely fertile Chernozemic soil order (Mollisols for you US folks), yet we are paving and building over them at an alarming rate. Same goes with the Ontario region, which is what they are getting at with the Golden Horseshoe (those are Melaninc Brunisols, but functionally similar to Chernozems).
The breaking and cultivation of the parts of the fringes boreal forest was difficult for pioneers and homesteaders; they found out the hard way which areas could successfully be brought under production or not. Yet even the areas where agriculture failed are quite fertile in the grand scheme of things. Soil organic matter tends to stick around in Canada and the nothern states; not so in tropical and desert environments. Deforestation in the Amazon is driven in part by the push for agriculture, yet these soils are marginal at best for agriculture. Tropical soils absorb Phosphorus like a vampire does blood, and because of the temperature, soil organic matter is mineralized at a ridiculously fast rate. Farmers down that way would kill for the soils we pave over; even the shitty ones.
I suppose my point is to take a long hard look at your site's soil baseline data. It is the foundation on which your reclaimed ecosystem/land use will be built upon. Even if you do everything right, it's going to take a long time to get back to where things started before a dozer went through the area. Follow the best management practices carefully, as being in a situation where you're short on soil is unenviable.
/Rant