January 25, 2007
The Green Mountains of Fresh Pond
These mounds of sifted topsoil at the Lusitania Field staging area have a greenish hue due to a binding agent that was sprayed on them to prevent the soil from washing away during the winter. The original plan was to distribute the soil around the Northeast Sector restoration areas last fall, but unusually wet weather left the ground too easily compressed to allow heavy soil-moving equipment on it.