IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Wellsfar
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1993WA047004A
  • User Pedon ID: S1993WA047004A
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1993WA047004A
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 94P0039
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 66229
  • Print Date: 11/12/2024

    • 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: 48.0933342
  • Std. Longitude: -119.9524994
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Satellite samples - 25 feet upslope.
  • State: Washington
  • County: WA047—Okanogan
  • MLRA: 6—Cascade Mountains, Eastern Slope
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: WA749—Okanogan National Forest Area, Washington

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: RJR and TA
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, frigid Vitrandic Cryochrepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 4
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Wellsfar
  • PSC - 25 to 61 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/27/2010
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Wellsfar
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, mixed Vitrandic Cryochrept
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 9/22/1993
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: mountains
  • Landform: mountainside
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/22/1993 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 681-82
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - other tree cover
  • 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

    ABLA

    LUSE

    PICO

    PIEN

    VASC

    Abies lasiocarpa

    Luina serpentina

    Pinus contorta

    Picea engelmannii

    Vaccinium scoparium

    subalpine fir

    creeping silverback

    lodgepole pine

    Engelmann spruce

    grouse whortleberry

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

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    0—10

    10—38

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    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

    40

    30

    15.2

    553

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    310

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    Oe—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); fragments; abrupt smooth boundary.
    A—3 to 13 centimeters (1.2 to 5.1 inches); gravelly sandy loam; weak fine granular structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; weakly smeary; 21.0 very fine and fine roots and 3.0 medium roots; 15 percent by volume subrounded 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 94P00251; dry when described;
    Bw1—13 to 23 centimeters (5.1 to 9.1 inches); gravelly sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; weakly smeary; 21.0 very fine and fine roots and 0.5 medium roots; 20 percent by volume subrounded 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 94P00252; dry when described;
    Bw2—23 to 41 centimeters (9.1 to 16.1 inches); gravelly sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; weakly smeary; 3.0 very fine and fine roots; 20 percent by volume subrounded 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 94P00253; dry when described;