IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Stabler
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2018WA059002
  • User Pedon ID: S2018WA059002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 18N2113
  • User Project ID: WREF_016_NEON
  • Project Name: Wind River Experimental Forest - WREF
  • Print Date: 12/6/2025

    • 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: 45.8111360
  • Std. Longitude: -121.9907380
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 4N
  • Range: 7E
  • Section: 19
  • PLSS Details: SW 1/4 of SE 1/4
  • State: Washington
  • County: WA059—Skamania
  • MLRA: 3—Olympic and Cascade Mountains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: WA760—Gifford Pinchot National Forest Area, Washington

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Daniel Ufnar
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Medial, amorphic, mesic Vitric Hapludands
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Stabler
  • Taxonomic Class - Medial, amorphic, mesic Vitric Hapludands
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 10 to 110 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/7/2018
  • Classifier - Daniel Ufnar
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: volcanic ash mixed with colluvium derived from basalt over debris flow deposits
  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: hillslope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: nose slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • RaCA Information:
  • RaCA Site ID - WREF_002
  • DSP Plot ID - SW
  • Plot Baseline Azimuth - 84
  • Plot Baseline Length - 25
  • Plot Width - 40
  • Plot/Site Set Up By - Center of pit
  • Plot or Site Recorder - Daniel Ufnar

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/7/2018 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Daniel Ufnar
  • 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
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    andic soil properties

    lithologic discontinuity

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    10—

    10—

    66—

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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

    25

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    567

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    120

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    Oi—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); slightly decomposed plant material; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 18N06340; dry when described; observed in pit, small
    Oe—3 to 10 centimeters (1.2 to 3.9 inches); moderately decomposed plant material; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 18N06341; dry when described; observed in pit, small
    A—10 to 32 centimeters (3.9 to 12.6 inches); black (7.5YR 2.5/1) broken face, dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) broken face, dry; medial loam; 35 percent sand; 22 percent clay; moderate fine granular structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; weakly smeary; common (3.0) very fine roots and common (3.0) medium roots and common (3.0) fine roots and common (3.0) coarse roots; few (0.8) medium irregular and common (3.0) fine irregular pores; 5 percent by volume nonflat indurated 20-50-75 millimeter basalt fragments observed by visual inspection method and 5 percent by volume nonflat indurated 75-160-250 millimeter basalt fragments observed by visual inspection method; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 18N06342; dry when described; observed in pit, small
    Bw1—32 to 66 centimeters (12.6 to 26.0 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/4) broken face, brown (7.5YR 4/4) broken face, dry; medial silt loam; 20 percent sand; 25 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; moderately hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; weakly smeary; common (3.0) very fine roots and common (3.0) medium roots and common (3.0) fine roots and few (0.8) coarse roots; common (3.0) very fine tubular and few (0.8) medium irregular and few (0.8) fine tubular pores; 5 percent by volume nonflat indurated 20-50-75 millimeter basalt fragments observed by visual inspection method; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 18N06343; dry when described; observed in pit, small
    2Bw2—66 to 100 centimeters (26.0 to 39.4 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/2) broken face, brown (7.5YR 5/3) broken face, dry; medial loam; 35 percent sand; 22 percent clay; moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; weakly smeary; few (0.8) very fine roots and few (0.8) fine roots; common (3.0) very fine tubular pores; 10 percent by volume nonflat moderately coherent cemented 2-4-5 millimeter volcanic, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method. Lab sample # 18N06344; dry when described; observed in pit, small