Loss of top soil

Today the Yahoo Ticker featured this amazing photograph of the shoreline in American Memorial Park. These trees once stood as tall beautiful pine trees, today due to the loss of topsoil they are just exposed root stumps. Check out this photo and more at http://news.yahoo.com/photos/national-geographic-your-shot-1327014336-slideshow/#crsl=%252Fphotos%252Fnational-geographic-your-shot-slideshow%252Fnational-geographic-your-shot-photo-1334189822.html
-Amanda