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To: El Gato
But modern farmers, soils scientists, and ag engineers do.

You beat me to it!

The first thing I thought of after reading that ecologists don't know how to improve soil was "crop rotation."

27 posted on 08/30/2002 6:03:09 PM PDT by longshadow
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To: longshadow
Rainforest soil is considerably different from, say, American tallgrass prairie soil. I understand that it is quite difficult to sustain crops on former rainforest lands.
30 posted on 08/30/2002 9:29:48 PM PDT by Cleburne
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