Why “Infrastructure” Includes the Ground Beneath Our Feet
Tim Youngquist of Iowa State University (left) with Larry and Margaret Stone at their prairie strips near Traer, Iowa. This is a first year of growth after frost seeding in the winter of 2015. Prairie plants are coming but have been mowed to keep weeds down. Credit: NRCS/SWCS photo by Lynn Betts
Why “Infrastructure” Includes the Ground Beneath Our Feet
Karen Perry Stillerman, senior analyst, Food and Environment | May 13, 2021, 2:47 pm EDT This post is a part of a series on
Long a joke in federal policy circles, Infrastructure Week is
actually upon us. Since President Biden revealed his infrastructure plan (aka the American Jobs Plan) earlier this spring, we’ve heard a lot of opinions about what is, and isn’t, infrastructure. Now I’ll add my hot take: Soil is infrastructure.