Comment on How do man made hiking trails keep the grass from overgrowing?
cymbal_king@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Plants are actually pretty sensitive to soil compaction, which can take a lot of time to reverse. the composition clay/sand in the soil can changed the time it takes to resettle, and it might even just erode down to rock.
thermal_shock@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
This one makes the most sense. There’s trails behind my house that I walk pretty much daily and maybe meet three people the entire time. There’s just not enough people walking on that path to cause that so it must be the compaction.