Word: topsoil
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...Amazing, really, what a brief scrutiny of the grass replacement ritual reveals lurking just below the topsoil. The superficial concerns about our Yard are, of course, both abundant and well founded. Everyone can see that it's ugly. Some people have found that it smells bad. At 10 minutes past the hour, the impossibility of running in a straight line over it to Sever Hall is cursed by all and sundry. But now the inner as well as the outer blemishes on our lawns can be shown. Now the grass can be understood. We may still sigh in resignation when...
LOGGING Increased logging means increased erosion, causing topsoil to flow into rivers, smothering salmon eggs. Logging must be limited and moved back from riverbanks...
Mannion recounts how farmers, in harsh seasons,would travel down to the rich topsoil of thevalleys and "borrow" the soil, creating fertilepatches in the hills which can still be seentoday...
...plants give contracts to a certain few corporate farms, paying them enormous sums per acre. Small and midsize family farms are disappearing at an alarming rate as land rents and property taxes skyrocket and the few corporate farms fight over every acre. The megafarms are pushing the fast-disappearing topsoil to the absolute limit. All this while the local sugar plant locked out longtime employees to force wage cuts. Here too we have spent millions of taxpayer dollars to pump lake water to four or five of the wealthy corporate farms. ERIC WASHBURN Pigeon, Mich...
...time the sound of the Martian wind. More important, the ship will be equipped with a robotic arm and scoop, much like the arms carried aboard the Viking landers in the 1970s. Unlike the Vikings, though, which were able to paw just a few feeble inches into the Martian topsoil, the new ship will gouge out a trench nearly 3 ft. deep...