• nexguy@lemmy.world
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    10 days ago

    How did excessive foot traffic harm the soil around it? It’s been fenced off for over 50 years. Did they not fence it off enough? It should not have been allowed to be affected by tourism. Drought, pollution…etc I understand but tourism?

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      10 days ago

      The theory I read is the soil became more and more compacted resulting in less rainwater making it down to the roots. With climate change also reducing the average rainfall in the area, there was much less moisture available below ground.

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        10 days ago

        Ah thank you. Sounds like the fenced in area should have been larger… unless you mean old foot traffic from the past(50+yrs) did the damage.