Soil Orders of the World

Urban Community Gardens

There are many positive aspects in the new trend of creating urban community gardens. This garden movement has gained an increase in interest of limiting food production. These gardens or oasis' create social connections and change within the community. Most people are not involved with growing their own food nor do they connect themselves with any local food production. Having these gardens open the eyes to many people and the positive impacts they have on a city.
Community gardens combine the urban agriculture experience, along with the social interactions of people who are involved. They reflect the diversity within the community, community involvement, and the interest in gardening. Unfortunately, community gardens are usually located in vacant lots owned by the city, so at any time they need that space they have the power to destroy anything on that property. The trend of these gardens are on the rise which is a positive impact for any community.

Mystery of the Megaflood

This movie was about a region in the state of Washington called the Scablands. A flood had carved out the majority of Montana, Washington, Oregon and Idaho. A geologist theorizes this mystery flood in the movie. He theorizes what he thought the cause of the huge gorges in these scablands that reach up to one hundred feet deep. There were many different theories for the scablands and how they were formed. It looked as if there had once been a river, but there was no proof of that being the case. It also looked as if it was an area under a glacier, but there was no proof of that either. It was in the 1920's that this geologist, Harlen Betz, theorized that there had been a huge flash flood that carved these gorges into this land. Scientists ignored his hypothesis because it was a mystery to them about where the water would have come from. It turned out Betz's hypothesis was proved to be correct. He proved that during the last ice age, there was an ice dam that was formed and held all of the water in a nearby lake. The ice dam ended up breaking, which sent all of the water rushing to this region in Washington, creating the scablands. This kept occurring over and over again which caused the gorges to be so deep.

Rocky Mountains