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Custom Soil Resource Report <br />14—Garber very gravelly coarse sandy loam, 15 to 40 percent slopes <br />Map Unit Setting <br />National map unit symbol. jpht <br />Elevation: 7,600 to 9,200 feet <br />Mean annual precipitation: 15 to 20 inches <br />Mean annual air temperature: 45 to 48 degrees F <br />Frost -free period. 70 to 100 days <br />Farmland classification: Not prime farmland <br />Map Unit Composition <br />Garber and similar soils: 85 percent <br />Estimates are based on observations, descriptions, and transects of the mapunit. <br />Description of Garber <br />Setting <br />Landform: Mountain slopes, drainageways <br />Landform position (three-dimensional): Mountainbase <br />Down -slope shape: Concave, linear <br />Across -slope shape: Linear, concave <br />Parent material: Weathered from granite <br />Typical profile <br />Al - 0 to 6 inches: very gravelly coarse sandy loam <br />A2 - 6 to 18 inches: very gravelly coarse sandy loam <br />C - 18 to 42 inches: extremely gravelly coarse sandy loam <br />Cr- 42 to 60 inches: bedrock <br />Properties and qualities <br />Slope: 15 to 40 percent <br />Depth to restrictive feature: 40 to 60 inches to paralithic bedrock <br />Natural drainage class: Well drained <br />Runoff class: Low <br />Capacity of the most limiting layer to transmit water (Ksat): Moderately low to high <br />(0.06 to 2.00 in/hr) <br />Depth to water table: More than 80 inches <br />Frequency of flooding: None <br />Frequency of ponding: None <br />Available water storage in profile: Very low (about 2.7 inches) <br />Interpretive groups <br />Land capability classification (irrigated): None specified <br />Land capability classification (nonirrigated): 7e <br />Hydrologic Soil Group: A <br />Other vegetative classification: Douglas-fr/Gambel oak (PSME/QUGA) (C1214), <br />Quaking aspen/common juniper (POTR5/JUC06) (130508) <br />13 <br />