WSP00003

• File Number: 8200.760
• Description: Yampa River General
• State: CO
• Basin: Yampa/White
• Water Division: 6
• Date: 4/1/1969
• Author: CWCB - USDA
• Title: Water and Related Land Resources - Yampa River Basin - Colorado and Wyoming
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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Soil Mapping Unit 1.0: Li~ht colored soils of the desert

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Soils of this unit are located in two areas on the general soil map. The
largest extends from south of the confluence of the Yampa and Little
Snake rivers in Colorado northward to the state line and into Wyoming.
It includes most of Sweetwater County in the basin and that part of
Carbon County west of Muddy Creek. The smaller delineation extends from
near Greystone westward through Browns Park to Utah. This is the most
extensive soil unit in the basin.

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Desert rangeland near Two Bar Ranch
(soil mapping unit 1.0)

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The landscape is characterized by rolling hills broken by gently sloping
strips of alluvial soils bordering deeply incised drainageways and
colluvial slopes. There is a sparse cover of saltbush and shadscale on
the uplands while greasewood and rabbitbrush are conspicuous along
drainageways. Larger expanses of gentle slopes are along the Green,

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