Among the mountains we witness the various ways that the basic ingredients of quality soil amalgamate despite very hostile conditions. 

We follow the various generations of plants that build the alpine soils starting with bare rock to ultimately sustain and nourish forests which in turn protect and hold the soil.

Its Importance
Students become aware that soil plays an important roll in the balances of nature. We learn to understand how It is an essential ingredient for human survival.  We examine the ways it is managed and nourished so it can contribute best for human sustenance and survival.

Conservation
We witness events that caused mature, productive soils to be destroyed because of human intervention and mismanagement.  The results and difficulties we find to current and future human communities is alarming.

Studies in other Zones show us the effects of good management and how modern techniques of cultivation can change unproductive soils into fertile farmlands

See also:-  Farming    Conservation