... activities become less and less recognized by the administrative people and policy maker; decreasing in annual budget, lack of experienced soil surveyor (many retired or retired prematurely), and with very few training facilities for the new generation ...
... If you were a soil surveyor you undoubtedly had something equivalent to a thunder book about the kinds of soils in the survey area, their major properties and features, their common occurrence in the landscape, and how they merged with landscape ...