The Canadian Journal of Soil Science (CJSS) is fifty years old! Here we look back and unearth trends and topics in soil science that have enticed us over those 50 years. Some study areas have stayed prominent throughout (e.g., nitrogen); others flourished then waned (e.g., salinity); and still others are now just ascending (e.g., climate change). And the way the papers look too has changed: they
... [Show full abstract] have become longer and with more authors, for example. Having looked briefly at the past half-century, we peer ahead into the one coming, mulling some changes, not necessarily to advocate them, but merely as possible seeds for collective pondering.
