IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Treen
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2008WA073101
  • User Pedon ID: S2008WA073101
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2008WA073101
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Pedon # - 09N0408
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 24079
  • Print Date: 6/2/2024
  • 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: 48.8591652
  • Std. Longitude: -121.4388885
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 39 N
  • Range: 10 E
  • Section: 24
  • PLSS Details: 150m south and 590m west of the NE corner
  • Location Description: Easy Ridge SnoTel site, low ridge between Easy and Mineral Creeks, North Cascades National Park.
  • Map Unit: 9016—Doubtful-Triumph-Perfect complex, 35 to 100 percent slopes
  • State: Washington
  • County: WA073—Whatcom
  • MLRA: 3—Olympic and Cascade Mountains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: WA774—North Cascades National Park Complex, Washington
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 48121-G4—Mount Blum, Washington
  • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Toby Rodgers
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Medial, amorphic Lithic Haplocryands
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Treen
  • PSC - 8 to 50 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/17/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Treen
  • Classificaton Date - 9/17/2008
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


  • SITE

  • Parent Material: volcanic ash and/or ablation till over residuum weathered from granite
  • Landscape: North Cascades mountain range
  • Landform: ridge
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Complexity: complex
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Pattern: dendritic
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: indurated moderate weathered granite at 50cm with 10 to <45
  • Geology: Index Batholith, Mineral Mountain Phase group .
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/17/2008 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: NAIP
  • 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
  • Current Weather - sunny
  • Current Air Temp - 26
  • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ABLA

    TSME

    CUNO

    PHEM

    CAME7

    VADE

    VAME

    Abies lasiocarpa

    Tsuga mertensiana

    Cupressus nootkatensis

    Phyllodoce empetriformis

    Cassiope mertensiana

    Vaccinium deliciosum

    Vaccinium membranaceum

    subalpine fir

    mountain hemlock

    Alaska cedar

    pink mountainheath

    western moss heather

    Cascade bilberry

    thinleaf huckleberry

    Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, lithic

    indurated

    50 -

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

    umbric epipedon

    andic soil properties

    cambic horizon

    paralithic materials

    lithic contact

    8—20

    8—33

    20—50

    33—50

    50—75

    —12—

    —25—

    —30—

    —17—

    —-

    Site Soil Temperature
    Site Obs. Date Depth Sensor Kind Temperature
    cm C

    9/17/2008

    9/17/2008

    15

    50

    8

    7

    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

    1610

    200

    2210

    45

    3.9

    4

    998

    Easy Pass

    SNOTEL

    Oi—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); peat; low excavation difficulty; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 8.0 medium roots throughout and 8.0 fine roots throughout and 3.0 coarse roots throughout; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary.; dry when described; observed in pit, small
    Oa—3 to 8 centimeters (1.2 to 3.1 inches); muck; 65 percent sand; 34 percent silt; 1 percent clay; moderately rapid permeability; low excavation difficulty; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 0.8 medium roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout and 0.8 coarse roots throughout; 3.0 very fine low-continuity dendritic tubular and 3.0 fine low-continuity dendritic tubular pores; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary.; slightly moist when described; observed in pit, small
    E—8 to 10 centimeters (3.1 to 3.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) crushed, grayish brown (10YR 5/2) crushed, dry; ashy fine sandy loam; 65 percent sand; 34 percent silt; 1 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderately rapid permeability; low excavation difficulty; 0.8 very fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine low-continuity interstitial pores; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, pH indicator strip; abrupt smooth boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    A—10 to 20 centimeters (3.9 to 7.9 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) crushed, dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) crushed, dry; ashy sandy loam; 60 percent sand; 37 percent silt; 3 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderately rapid permeability; low excavation difficulty; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 0.8 medium roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine low-continuity irregular and 3.0 fine low-continuity irregular pores; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, pH indicator strip; abrupt smooth boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bw—20 to 33 centimeters (7.9 to 13.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) crushed, yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) crushed, dry; ashy gravelly sandy loam; 65 percent sand; 31 percent silt; 4 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderately rapid permeability; low excavation difficulty; 0.8 very fine roots throughout and 0.8 medium roots throughout and 0.8 fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine low-continuity irregular and 3.0 medium low-continuity irregular and 3.0 fine low-continuity irregular pores; 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-4-5 millimeter granite fragments and 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 5-38-75 millimeter granite fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 75-102-250 millimeter granite fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, pH indicator strip; clear wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    B/C—33 to 50 centimeters (13.0 to 19.7 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/6) crushed, yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) crushed, dry; gravelly coarse sandy loam; 70 percent sand; 26 percent silt; 4 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderately rapid permeability; moderate excavation difficulty; 0.8 very fine roots throughout and 0.8 fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine low-continuity irregular and 3.0 medium low-continuity irregular and 3.0 fine low-continuity irregular pores; 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-4-5 millimeter granite fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 5-38-75 millimeter granite fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, pH indicator strip; abrupt irregular boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    R—50 to 75 centimeters (19.7 to 29.5 inches); fragments.; observed in pit, small