IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Bucksport
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S09ME021005.Bucksport
  • User Pedon ID: S09ME021005.Bucksport
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S09ME021005.Bucksport
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - NSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 10N0321
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 28245
  • Print Date: 3/2/2025

    • 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: 45.6406667
  • Std. Longitude: -68.9570556
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 1
  • Range: 10
  • Location Description: Jo-Mary Road, second right, into near the Pemadumcook lake.
  • Map Unit: OA—Wonsqueak and Bucksport soils, 0 to 1 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Maine
  • County: ME021—Piscataquis
  • MLRA: 143—Northeastern Mountains
  • Regional Office: NE—Northeast
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: 12-7—Presque Isle, Maine
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: ME620—Northern Piscataquis and Northern Somerset County Area, Maine
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 45068-F8—Pemadumcook Lake, Maine

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Tony Jenkins, Mary Jo Kimble
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Euic, frigid Typic Haplosaprists
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Bucksport
  • PSC - 0 to 130 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/23/2015
  • Classifier - Roger DeKett
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Bucksport
  • Classificaton Date - 8/27/2009
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Pedon Vegetation and Crop Cover Information:
  • Forest Overstory Veg. Type - perennial forbs or herbaceous
  • Forest Understory Veg. Type - perennial forbs or herbaceous
  • Hydric: yes
  • QC Status: level 2


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: well decomposed herbaceous organic material and/or well decomposed woody organic material
  • Landform: bog, swamp
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: head slope
  • Geomorphic Component Flats: dip
  • Hill Slope Profile: toeslope
  • Slope Complexity: complex
  • Slope Shape Across: concave
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Drainage Class: very poorly
  • Flooding: very frequent flooding for long periods
  • Ponding: frequent ponding for long periods
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/27/2009 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID:
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - conifers
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Yield Study ID -
  • Current Weather - sunny
  • Current Air Temp - 16
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    2MOSS

    GAPR2

    PIMA

    —

    Gaultheria procumbens

    Picea mariana

    Moss

    eastern teaberry

    black spruce

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    —

    —

    —

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    Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

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    —

    —

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    hemic soil materials

    sapric soil materials

    0—15

    15—165

    —15—

    —150—
    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

    1

    —

    —

    167

    —

    45

    905

    —

    105

    3.1

    16.4

    0.8

    —

    —

    —

    —

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    171472

    Clayton Lake

    U.S. Official
    Oa1—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) rubbed muck; weak fine granular structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 10 percent by volume wood fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.9, pH meter.; very moist when described; observed in auger, bucket
    Oa2—15 to 120 centimeters (5.9 to 47.2 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/2) broken face muck; weak fine granular structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5 percent by volume wood fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, pH meter.; very moist when described; observed in auger, bucket
    Oa3—120 to 165 centimeters (47.2 to 65.0 inches); very dark brown (7.5YR 2.5/2) broken face muck; weak fine granular structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5 percent by volume wood fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.9, pH meter.; very moist when described; observed in auger, bucket