IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Presher
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1976WA039004
  • User Pedon ID: S1976WA039004
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1976WA039004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A3308
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 38423
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • LOCATION

  • Township: 5N
  • Range: 15E
  • Section: 4
  • PLSS Details: SW 1/4, NW 1/4
  • State: Washington
  • County: WA039—Klickitat
  • MLRA: 6—Cascade Mountains, Eastern Slope
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: WA639—Klickitat County Area, Washington

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Xerochrepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 4
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Presher
  • Classificaton Date - 7/23/2007
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - PRESHER
  • Classificaton Date - 6/1/1976
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/1/1976 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    CEPR

    Ceanothus prostratus

    prostrate ceanothus

    —

    —

    —
    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

    3

    —

    —

    808

    —

    225

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —
    O1—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 40A25747. needles and twigs
    A1—3 to 18 centimeters (1.2 to 7.1 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/4), brown (7.5YR 5/3), dry; gravelly loam; weak fine granular structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 1.0 medium roots and 3.0 fine roots; 21.0 very fine interstitial pores; 15 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A25748
    B1—18 to 49 centimeters (7.1 to 19.3 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/4), light reddish brown (5YR 6/4), dry; gravelly loam; weak very fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 1.0 medium roots and 3.0 fine roots; 21.0 very fine interstitial and 21.0 fine tubular pores; 15 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, unspecified; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A25749
    B21—49 to 94 centimeters (19.3 to 37.0 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/4), light brown (7.5YR 6/4), dry; loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; hard when dry, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 1.0 fine and medium roots; 21.0 very fine interstitial and 21.0 fine tubular pores; 10 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, unspecified; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A25750
    B22—94 to 135 centimeters (37.0 to 53.1 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4), light reddish brown (5YR 6/4), dry; loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; hard when dry, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 1.0 fine roots; 21.0 very fine interstitial and 21.0 fine tubular pores; 10 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, unspecified; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A25751
    B3—135 to 155 centimeters (53.1 to 61.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4), reddish brown (5YR 5/4), dry; gravelly loam; weak very fine subangular blocky structure; hard when dry, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 1.0 very fine roots; 21.0 very fine interstitial and 21.0 fine tubular pores; 20 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, unspecified. Lab sample # 40A25752. gravel is weathered fragments of basalt