IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Constitution
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 04-MPR-01
  • User Pedon ID: S2004WA055011
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 04-MPR-01
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 04N0754
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 16009
  • Print Date: 11/13/2025

    • 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: 48.6740570
  • Std. Longitude: -122.8358078
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 37N
  • Range: 1W
  • Section: 29
  • Location Description: Top of MT. Constitition, Orcas Island, WA.
  • Map Unit: 5004—Pickett-Kahboo-Rock Outcrop complex, 25 to 75 percent slopes
  • State: Washington
  • County: WA055—San Juan
  • MLRA: 2—Willamette and Puget Sound Valleys
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: WA055—San Juan County, Washington

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Mike Regan
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, isotic, mesic Andic Dystroxerepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 11
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Constitution
  • PSC - 30 to 97 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/14/2006
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Pickett
  • Classificaton Date - 3/22/2004
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: glacial sediment with mixed ash
  • Geomorphic Component Mountains: mountaintop
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Bedrock: indurated metasedimentary rock, unspecified at 97cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 3/22/2004 (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

    PICO

    PSME

    TSME

    Pinus contorta

    Pseudotsuga menziesii

    Tsuga mertensiana

    lodgepole pine

    Douglas-fir

    mountain hemlock

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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

    10

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    640

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    225

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    Oi—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 04N04308; observed in pit, small
    Oe—3 to 5 centimeters (1.2 to 2.0 inches); fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 04N04309; observed in pit, small
    Bw1—5 to 46 centimeters (2.0 to 18.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4), brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist; gravelly loam; 45 percent sand; 46 percent silt; 9 percent clay; weak medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very coarse roots and 21.0 fine and medium roots and 0.5 coarse roots; 3.0 irregular pores; 10 percent by volume 5-41-76 millimeter unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume 2-3-5 millimeter unspecified fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 04N04310; observed in pit, small
    BC—46 to 86 centimeters (18.1 to 33.9 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 5/3), moist; gravelly sandy loam; 20 percent sand; 67 percent silt; 13 percent clay; moderate medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, firm, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 medium roots and 3.0 fine roots; irregular pores; 10 percent by volume 2-3-5 millimeter unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume 5-41-76 millimeter unspecified fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 04N04311; observed in pit, small
    C—86 to 97 centimeters (33.9 to 38.2 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist; very gravelly sandy loam; 26 percent sand; 65 percent silt; 9 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; hard, extremely firm, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots in cracks; 2.0 interstitial and 3.0 irregular pores; 15 percent by volume 2-3-5 millimeter unspecified fragments and 35 percent by volume 5-41-76 millimeter unspecified fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 04N04312; observed in pit, small
    R—97 to 122 centimeters (38.2 to 48.0 inches); fragments.; observed in pit, small