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227 -Broad Canyon -Scout Family complex <br />Available water capacity: low <br />Potential rooting depth: 60 or more inches • <br />Surface runoff: medium to very rapid <br />Hazard of water erosion: low <br />Shrink-swell potential: low <br />Mass movement potential: low <br />COMPOSITION <br />Broad Canyon soil and similar soils: 50 percent <br />Scout Family soil and similar soils: 35 percent <br />Contrasting inclusions: 15 percent <br />CONTRASTING INCLUSIONS <br />Five Percent Needteton soils on the steeper slopes <br />Five percent Guero soils on the lesser sloping areas <br />Five percent Emerald soils <br />MAJOR USES <br />Timber production, wildlife, recreation <br />• <br />MAJOR MANAGEMENT FACTORS <br />Aecreation <br />Broad Canyon and Scout Family <br />Soil-related factors: subsurface rock fragments <br />Management considerations: <br />Reduce the risk of erosion and the maintenance costs by stabilizing areas that have been <br />disturbed. <br />Stockpile topsoil and use it to reclaim areas disturbed during construction. <br />Excavation on this unit may be hampered by rock fragments in the soil profile. <br />Woodland <br />Broad Canvart and Scout Family <br />Soil-related factors: Limited available water capacity <br />Dominant vegetation in the potential plant community: Engelmann spruce - subalpine fir with an <br />understory of elk sedge, dwarf blueberry, common juniper, kinnikinnick <br />Annual production of air-dry understory vegetation: 250 to 500 pounds per acre • <br />Sods Description Report -West Elk Mine <br />December 1994 WESTEC 46 <br />