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Moving beyond T: a guest editorial written by a leading conservation professional; soil organic matter is something we can visualize, measure, manipulate, touch, and bring special reference to in our conservation conversations.(View Point)(Editorial)
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Journal of Soil and Water Conservation
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March 1, 2004
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Copyright informationCOPYRIGHT 2004 Soil & Water Conservation Society. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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The concept of "T"--a tolerable level of soil loss from erosion to maintain agricultural productivity--has been an integral part of erosion control for decades. However, when the 1985 farm bill designated T as the benchmark for conservation compliance, T was transformed from a technical tool into a soil conservation ideology. T was no longer simply a benchmark for erosion control, but it also became a benchmark for determining whether the soil resource had been adequately protected and for targeting conservation efforts.
We should retain T as an erosion control target and a tool for tracking soil erosion protection, but we need to move on to a different philosophical basis ...
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