Under-appreciated and underfoot

A group of dedicated researchers at the Great Lakes Forestry Centre spend their days studying an often-overlooked part of any ecosystem – soil.
Dr. Paul Hazlett, a forest soils scientist at GLFC, told Sault This Week soil is “our most important but most under appreciated natural resource.”
“Most people have had an experience with soil,” said Hazlett. “Maybe it was making ‘mud pies’ as a kid, or maybe it was working in the garden to produce some tas