Intro to the Watershed Learning Network
What’s the Story of Soil in My City?
This blog post was written by Elizabeth Wilkes as part of the Spring 2018 UGA Urban Ecology class. Why Urban Soil Matters Soil is the basis for human life, supporting the life of plants which form the foundation of ecosystems. This fact can be easy to forget in the context of a city dominated by concrete and asphalt. Beneath roads, buildings, parking lots, and other impermeable surfaces in urban areas, dirt still exists, but most…