I guess I should explain. I wrote the previous article before Mr. G started his assignment. Then he announced that we needed to write MORE than what I had written on my blog! As in, solutions! I mean, COME ON!! What use is writing solutions to slow down the erosion process?

    (Aside from keeping me from sounding like old gloom-and-doom Mr. Gore…)

    Okay, might as well get it over with. I have to lightly cover weathering and erosion, too. Weathering is how rock breaks down into dust or sand. It is important to the problem because that is how new dirt is formed. Erosion is how the eroded rock gets blown away. That is important to the problem because that is how we are losing soil so fast.

    Now, our solutions are divided into three groups: farming, plant, and other. Our farming solutions included: don’t till as much (instead, spray weedkiller), alternate crops in rows, and till evenly. Plant solutions were simple: Plant plants so that the soil doesn’t get blown away as easy.

    And in the other category, we wrote about this plastic grid that you bury and fill in with dirt. It is called HoofGrid, and it keeps soil from sliding down slopes.

    That is my info about our huge project.