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<br /> <br /> <br />mule deer and pronghorn antelope. This site provides <br />valuable winter- forage for both deer and elk. <br />5. Soils <br />a. Composite Descr•iptibn: Soils comprising this site ar-e <br />well drained soils which occur on low hills, fans, terraces, <br />and uplands iri alluvium, colluvium and eoliarr materials. <br />Typically tt,e surface sails are sandy looms or gravelly <br />sandy foams. Gravel content normally does nut exceed 15 per <br />cent. Subsoils include sandy, gravelly, yr cobbly sandy <br />loarns and sandy clay looms.. Substratums are channery and <br />gravelly ar- very gravelly sandy looms. <br />Per-rneability is moderate to mader-ately rapid. Erosion hazard <br />is High. Rooting depth is generally over 40 to 60 inches, <br />.~ <br />Gut available water holding capacity is low. <br />b. Ma,ior- Soils Associated With This Site: <br />Sail Ser-ies Narne Surface Texture Slope Range Phase <br />CUENA VISTA SANDY LOAM 3 - 20 % ' <br />FELTiiNIA SANDY LOAM 2 - ti <br />t4ARTINSDALE GRAVELLY SANDY LOAM 3 - 12 <br />SILVERCLIFF GRAVELLY SANDY LOAM 1 - 4 <br />=:. I_ocai;ic~r~ of Tvoical E>:amole of the Site <br />Nor-th of Westcliffe, C:olvrado along the Copper Gulch road in <br />Custer- and Fr-ernont Counties. <br />C~. M.AJOR USES AND INTERPRETATIONS FCrR: <br />1. Livestock Grazing <br />a. This site provides e>:celler~t grazing for livestock. <br />Needlear~d thread ar~d western wheat provide good early summer <br />grazing for- this high altitude rangeland. Heavy, continuous <br />gr-az i ng dur- i rig spr- i rig months by catt I e, however-, wi I I cause <br />these two species to decline and be replaced by less <br />productive war-rn season grasses such as blue grams and poor <br />quality for-Gs and sF,r-uGs and half shrubs. Grazing systems <br />sY~vuld Ge designed to limit grazing periods during the spring <br />rn~~nth,s, and provide for defer-r-ement through July once every <br />three car- four years. <br />WY~en ire low fair- or- poor- ecological condition, this site can <br />be successfully reseeded tr, a western wheatgrass and crested <br />wl~eatgr-ass rni::tur-e. <br />Mountain Loam 13-IS" PZ 4 <br />