IDENTIFIERS

Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Unnamed

OSD

Series Extent

User Site ID: S2004ID037001

User Pedon ID: 04ID037001

Vegetation Plot ID: S2004ID037001

User Site Association ID: ID703_DSM_pedonsID703_DSM_p2_pedons

Lab Information:

Certified Lab Pedon Description - no

Lab Source ID - SSL

Lab Pedon # - 04N0859

NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 16491

Print Date: 2/2/2025

LOCATION

Location In Web Soil Survey

AOI is roughly a square mile and pedon is marked in the center.

Location in SoilWeb

Location in Google Maps

Std. Latitude: 44.0190277

Std. Longitude: -113.4721909

Datum: WGS84

Township: 8N

Range: 25E

Section: 15

Location Description: Hilts Creek Snowtel site; Challis National Forest; site is fringe area of forest and meadow

Country: US—United States

State: Idaho

County: ID037—Custer

MLRA: 12—Lost River Valleys and Mountains

Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: ID752—Custer-Lemhi Area, Idaho, Parts of Blaine, Custer, and Lemhi Counties

7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 44113-A4—Warren Mountain, Idaho

PEDON

Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic Vertic Haplocryalfs

Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS

Pedon #: 1

Sampled As Information:

Soil Name - Unnamed

Taxonomic Class - Fine, smectitic Vertic Haplocryalfs

PSC - 20 to 70 cm.

Classificaton Date - 6/8/2004

Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition

Dynamic Soil Properties:

Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no

Hydric: no

SITE

Parent Material: ejecta silicic basalt and/or colluvium and/or residuum

Landscape: mountains

Landform: mountain slope

Geomorphic Component Mountains: mountainflank, lower third

Slope Complexity: simple

Slope Shape Across: concave

Slope Shape Down: linear

Drainage Class: well

Flooding: none flooding

Ponding: none ponding

Bedrock: at 152cm

Surface Fragments: 3.00 percent 2- to 76-millimeter

Benchmark Soil?: no

VEGETATION

SITE OBSERVATION

Observation Date: 6/8/2004 (actual site observation date)

Surface Cover Properties:

Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover

Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hardwoods

Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no

Drained? - no

Bedded Soil? - no

Forest Plantation? - no

Current Weather - sunny

Current Air Temp - 20

Vegetation Plot Plants
Plant Symbol	Scientific Name	National Vernacular Name	Plant Type Group	Canopy Cover %	Vegetation Stata Level
ARNIC CAGA3 FEID MERTE PSMEG RILA	Arnica Carex garberi Festuca idahoensis Mertensia Pseudotsuga menziesii var. glauca Ribes lacustre	arnica elk sedge Idaho fescue bluebells Rocky Mountain Douglas-fir prickly currant	— — — — — —	— — — — — —	— — — — — —

Pedon Diagnostic Features
Feature Kind	Feature Depth L-H	Feature Thickness L-RV-H
	cm
argillic horizon	20—130	—-

Site Soil Temperature
Site Obs. Date	Depth	Sensor Kind	Temperature
	cm		C
6/8/2004	51	—	6

Setting and Climate
Slope	Slope Length USLE	Upslope Length	Elev.	Corr. Elev	Aspect	MAP	REAP	FFD	MAAT	MSAT	MWAT	MAST	MSST	MWST	MFFP	PE Index	Climate Station ID	Climate Station Name	Climate Station Type
%	m				degrees	mm	mm		C						mm
11	—	—	2469	—	342	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	524	Hilts Creek	SNOTEL

Oe—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); hard, very friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments; noneffervescent; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 04N04901

A—3 to 20 centimeters (1.2 to 7.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), very dark brown (10YR 2/2), dry; clay loam; 34 percent clay; moderate medium angular blocky structure; very hard, extremely firm, very sticky, very plastic; 3.0 very fine and fine roots throughout and 0.5 medium and coarse roots throughout; 3.0 very fine and fine vesicular pores; 50 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 3 percent by volume angular 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; neutral, pH 6.6; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 04N04902

Bt1—20 to 48 centimeters (7.9 to 18.9 inches); 70 percent pale brown (10YR 6/3) and 30 percent olive brown (2.5Y 4/3), 70 percent brown (10YR 5/3) and 30 percent dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/3), dry; clay; 42 percent clay; moderate medium and coarse prismatic structure; very hard, extremely firm, very sticky, very plastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine and fine tubular pores; 60 percent distinct clay films on surfaces along pores and 60 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 2 percent by volume angular 75-?-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume angular 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; neutral, pH 6.8; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 04N04903

Bt2—48 to 74 centimeters (18.9 to 29.1 inches); 70 percent pale brown (10YR 6/3) and 30 percent olive brown (2.5Y 4/3), 70 percent brown (10YR 5/3) and 30 percent dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/3), dry; clay; 42 percent clay; moderate coarse prismatic structure; very hard, extremely firm, very sticky, very plastic; 0.1 very fine and fine roots throughout; 0.5 very fine and fine tubular pores; 60 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds and 60 percent distinct clay films on surfaces along pores; 5 percent by volume angular 75-?-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume angular 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; neutral, pH 6.8; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 04N04904

Bt3—74 to 97 centimeters (29.1 to 38.2 inches); 60 percent pale brown (10YR 6/3) and 40 percent 2.5Y 4/6 (2.5Y 4/6), 40 percent dark red (2.5YR 3/6) and 3 percent brown (10YR 5/3), dry; clay; 45 percent clay; moderate medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; very hard, extremely firm, very sticky, very plastic; 0.1 very fine roots throughout; 0.5 very fine tubular pores; 45 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds and 45 percent distinct clay films on surfaces along pores; 5 percent by volume angular 75-?-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume angular 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; neutral, pH 6.8; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 04N04905

BCt—97 to 130 centimeters (38.2 to 51.2 inches); 70 percent light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) and 30 percent olive brown (2.5Y 4/3), 70 percent brown (10YR 5/3) and 30 percent dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/3), dry; clay loam; 32 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, extremely firm, very sticky, very plastic; 0.5 very fine tubular pores; 30 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent by volume angular 75-?-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume angular 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; neutral, pH 6.6; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 04N04906

CBt—130 to 152 centimeters (51.2 to 59.8 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 5/3), dry; clay loam; 34 percent clay; very hard, very friable, very sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine tubular pores; 10 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 3 percent by volume angular 75-?-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume angular 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; slightly acid, pH 6.4. Lab sample # 04N04907