Soil provides ecosystem services critical for life: soil acts as a water filter and a growing medium; provides habitat for billions of organisms, contributing to biodiversity; and supplies most of the antibiotics used to fight diseases. Humans use soil as a holding facility for solid waste, filter for wastewater, and foundation for our cities and towns. Advances in watershed, natural resource, and environmental sciences have shown that soil is the foundation of basic ecosystem function which provide us with feed, fiber, food and fuel.