Published June 09, 2011, 12:51 PM
Wildside: Uncovering the dirt on dirt
Many years ago, Dr. Milo Harpstead, my soils professor at UW-Stevens Point, began his lecture by informing us that the thin layer of topsoil that covers the planet’s land surface is the foundation of civilization. Dr. Harpstead instructed that there’s a big difference between soils and dirt. Dirt is soil out of place.By: Dan Wilcox, outdoor columnist, River Falls Journal
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