Bruce Hungate
Ecosystem Scientist
Non Forest Service
My favorite science experience is taking deep cores in sandy soils near the ocean where pure, white sand, suddenly became a black and soft soil horizon, about 3-inches thick. It smelled like compost, and it was . . . the remains of old, dead plants (we later found out the carbon was from 30,000 years ago!).
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