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• ~ • <br />/- 10. Stoneham-Ascalon-Fort Collins area <br />Deep, nearly level to strangely eloping well drained loam and sandy <br />loam soils; formed in mixed alluvium and eolian materials. <br />This soil area ie on uplands in the south central part of the survey <br />area. It occupies about 5 percent of the total acreage. .About 25 <br />percent is the Stoneham soil, 20 percent Ascalon soil, 20 percent Fort <br />Collins soil, and the remaining 35 percent is soils of minor extent. <br />The Fort Collins soil has loam surface layers and the Ascalon and <br />Stoneham soils have mostly sandy loam surface layers. The Ascalon soil <br />also has darker colored surfe.ce layers than do the Stoneham and Fort <br />Collins soils. <br />1 The minor soils in this area are the well drained %eith, Olney, Poaa, <br />and Wiley soils. ' <br />This soil area is used mainly for livestock grazing. Cropland is very <br />limited because of the low amount of precipitation. <br />The potential for hemesites is good and fair for wildlife habitat. <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />31 <br />