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Soil Information for All Uses <br />Soil Reports <br />The Soil Reports section includes various formatted tabular and narrative reports <br />tables)containing data for each selected soil map unit and each component of each <br />unit. No aggregation of data has occurred as is done in reports in the Soil Properties <br />and Qualities and Suitabilities and Limitations sections. <br />The reports contain soil interpretive information as well as basic soil properties and <br />qualities.A description of each report(table)is included. <br />Vegetative Productivity <br />This folder contains a collection of tabular reports that present vegetative productivity <br />data. The reports (tables) include all selected map units and components for each <br />map unit.Vegetative productivity includes estimates of potential vegetative production <br />for a variety of land uses, including cropland, forestland, hayland, pastureland, <br />horticulture and rangeland. In the underlying database, some states maintain crop <br />yield data by individual map unit component. Other states maintain the data at the <br />map unit level.Attributes are included for both, although only one or the other is likely <br />to contain data for any given geographic area. For other land uses, productivity data <br />is shown only at the map unit component level. Examples include potential crop yields <br />under irrigated and nonirrigated conditions, forest productivity, forest site index, and <br />total rangeland production under of normal,favorable and unfavorable conditions. <br />Rangeland and Forest Vegetation Classification, <br />Productivity, and Plant Composition (Freeman 3-24) <br />In areas that have similar climate and topography, differences in the kind and amount <br />of rangeland or forest understory vegetation are closely related to the kind of soil. <br />Effective management is based on the relationship between the soils and vegetation <br />and water. <br />This table shows, for each soil that supports vegetation, the ecological site, plant <br />association, or habitat type;the total annual production of vegetation in favorable, <br />normal, and unfavorable years; the characteristic vegetation; and the average <br />percentage of each species. An explanation of the column headings in the table <br />follows. <br />13