Top Banner
Sustaining Soils Sustaining Soils Soils- 6-1 Image: Digital Stock
8

Sustaining Soils

Jan 01, 2016

Download

Documents

dakota-huff

Sustaining Soils. Image: Digital Stock. Soils-6-1. Soils can be degraded or destroyed. Image: NRCS. Soils-6-2. Soils need to be protected from erosion by wind and water. Image: NRCS. Soils-6-3. Soils need to be protected from depletion of organic matter and nutrients. Image: NRCS. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Welcome message from author
This document is posted to help you gain knowledge. Please leave a comment to let me know what you think about it! Share it to your friends and learn new things together.
Transcript
Page 1: Sustaining Soils

Sustaining SoilsSustaining Soils

Soils-6-1

Image: Digital Stock

Page 2: Sustaining Soils

Soils can be Soils can be degraded or degraded or destroyed.destroyed.

Soils-6-2

Image: NRCS

Page 3: Sustaining Soils

Soils need to be protected Soils need to be protected from erosion by wind and from erosion by wind and

water.water.

Soils-6-3

Image: NRCS

Page 4: Sustaining Soils

Soils need to be protected Soils need to be protected from depletion of organic from depletion of organic

matter and nutrients.matter and nutrients.

Soils-6-4

Image: NRCS

Page 5: Sustaining Soils

Soils need to be protected Soils need to be protected from contamination.from contamination.

Soils-6-5

Image: NRCS

Page 6: Sustaining Soils

Soils need to be Soils need to be protected from protected from urbanization.urbanization.

Soils-6-6Image: NRCS

Page 7: Sustaining Soils

Degraded soils can be Degraded soils can be reclaimed.reclaimed.

Before

AfterSoils-6-7

Images: Gold Institute, Echo Bay Mines; S. Warren

Page 8: Sustaining Soils

Soils can be sustained Soils can be sustained through protecting and through protecting and

reclaiming.reclaiming.

Images: NRCS