Daily Herald: After historic find, University of Illinois soil scientists want to dig up more on state’s land

Daily Herald: After historic find, University of Illinois soil scientists want to dig up more on state’s land. “After stumbling upon thousands of Mason jars filled with soil in a University of Illinois barn, some of them over 100 years old, Andrew Margenot knew he had found something special…. In an attempt to gain unique insight into how Illinois soils have changed over the course of 120 years, Margenot and his team are now trying to resample soils at 450 locations throughout the state and compare them to the samples gathered by their predecessors.”