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2 -Absarokee -Work looms <br />Permeability: moderately slow <br />Available water capacity: high <br />Potential rooting depth: 60 inches or more • <br />Surface runoff: moderate <br />Hazard of water erosion: moderate to high <br />Shrink-swell potential: high <br />Mass movement potential: moderate to high <br />COMPOSITION <br />Absarokee soil and similar soils: 40 percent <br />Work soil and similar soils: 40 percent <br />Contrasting inclusions: ZO percent <br />CONTRASTING INCLUSIONS <br />Five percent Beenom soils on the uplands and mountain side slopes. <br />Five percent Kech, Progresso and Potts soils on the hills and ridges in uplands. <br />Five percent Fluvents on flooded areas. <br />MAJOR USES <br />Livestock grazing, wildlife, recreation <br />MAJOR MANAGEMENT FACTORS • <br />Recreation <br />Absarokee and Work <br />Soil-related factors: shallow depth to bedrock, high shrink-swell potential, slope, clayey <br />subsurface soil textures, permeability moderately slow. <br />Management considerations: <br />Revegetate disturbed areas at the construction sites as soon as possible to reduce the hazard of <br />soil erosion. <br />The effects of shrinking and swelling can be minimized by using proper engineering designs; <br />Higher construction and maintenance costs should be expected on this unit; and <br />Stockpile topsoil and use it to reclaim areas disturbed during <br />construction. <br />Rangeland <br />Absarokee and Work <br />Soil-related factors: moderately slow permeability • <br />Soils Description Report -West Elk Mine <br />December 1994 WESTEC 2 <br />