IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): REPUBLIC
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1994WA047003
  • User Pedon ID: S1994WA047003
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1994WA047003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 94P0361
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 66539
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • 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: 48.5863876
  • Std. Longitude: -119.8452759
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 36N
  • Range: 24E
  • Section: 29
  • PLSS Details: 850 feet west and 1300 feet north of southeast corner
  • 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
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, nonacid, frigid Vitrandic Haploxerolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - REPUBLIC
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/27/2010
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Republic
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy, mixed, mesic Vitrandic Haploxeroll
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 10/11/1993
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: mountainside
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Shape Across: concave
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/11/1993 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 681-162
  • 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
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ACMIL

    ACMIO

    CACO11

    CARU

    LAOC

    PIPO

    POTR5

    POTRT

    PSMEG

    SALIX

    SYAL

    Achillea millefolium ssp. lanulosa

    Achillea millefolium var. occidentalis

    Carex concinnoides

    Calamagrostis rubescens

    Larix occidentalis

    Pinus ponderosa

    Populus tremuloides

    Populus tremula ssp. tremuloides

    Pseudotsuga menziesii var. glauca

    Salix

    Symphoricarpos albus

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    western yarrow

    northwestern sedge

    pinegrass

    western larch

    ponderosa pine

    quaking aspen

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    Rocky Mountain Douglas-fir

    willow

    common snowberry

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

    mollic epipedon

    cambic horizon

    0—38

    38—89

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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

    30

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    1295

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    220

    559

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    5.6

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    Oe—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); fragments; abrupt smooth boundary.
    A1—3 to 18 centimeters (1.2 to 7.1 inches);, dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) and very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist; loam; weak fine granular structure; soft, very friable, noncoherent, nonsticky, nonplastic; strongly fluid; 21.0 very fine and fine roots and 0.5 medium and coarse roots; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 94P02215
    A2—18 to 41 centimeters (7.1 to 16.1 inches);, brown (10YR 5/3) and dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak fine granular structure; soft, very friable, noncoherent, nonsticky, nonplastic; 21.0 very fine and fine roots and 3.0 medium and coarse roots; 5 percent by volume subrounded 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 94P02216
    Bw1—41 to 74 centimeters (16.1 to 29.1 inches);, pale brown (10YR 6/3) and dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, noncoherent, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 very fine to coarse roots; 10 percent by volume subrounded 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 7.2, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary.
    Bw2—74 to 92 centimeters (29.1 to 36.2 inches);, pale brown (10YR 6/3) and dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; gravelly sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, noncoherent, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 medium and coarse roots and 0.5 fine roots; 10 percent by volume subrounded 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume subrounded 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4, unspecified; clear wavy boundary.
    C—92 to 155 centimeters (36.2 to 61.0 inches);, pale olive (5Y 6/3) and olive (5Y 4/3), moist; gravelly sandy loam; massive; soft, very friable, noncoherent, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 fine and medium roots; 10 percent by volume subrounded 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 25 percent by volume subrounded 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, unspecified.