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2.4 Healthy Soil Principles
2.4 Healthy Soil Principles
After completing this section
you will be able to:
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State the healthy soil principles and
relate them to the physical, chemical,
and biological characteristics of soils.
•
Evaluate different management
activities within the context of
stewarding healthy soils.
Healthy soil principles are the key to
successful land stewardship. Understanding
them enables stewards to consider how
different practices and management plans are
likely to promote or degrade soil health and
thus to make better management decisions.
The soil health principles that we present
below are based on those included the 2019
New Mexico Healthy Soils Act and very close
to the NRCS Soil Health Principles.
Learning Outcomes
Discussion – Soil covers
What soil covers do you or your neighbors
use? What are your soil-cover strategies?
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