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212 -Hayrack -Muggins -Nutras complex <br />Permeability: slow <br />Available water capacity: high <br />• Potential rooting depth: 20 to 40 inches <br />Surface runoff: medium to very rapid <br />Hazard of water erosion: low to high <br />Shrink-swell potential: high <br />Mass movement potential: low to moderate <br />CHARACTERISTICS OF THE NUTRAS SOIL <br />Parent material: residuum and colluvium from interbedded sandstone and shale with basalt <br />overburden <br />Dominant native plants: Engelmann spruce, subalpine fir, elk sedge, kinnikinnick <br />Typical Profile <br />0 to 3 inches -brown loam <br />3 to 10 inches -pale brown loam <br />10 to 23 inches -light reddish brown very cobbly clay loam <br />23 to 60 inches -reddish brown very cobbly clay <br />Depth class: very deep <br />Drainage class: well drained <br />Permeability: slow <br />Available water capacity: moderate <br />• Potential rooting depth: 10 to 24 inches <br />COMPOSITION <br />Surface runoff: medium to very rapid <br />Hazard of water erosion: low to high <br />Shrink-swell potential: moderate <br />Mass movement potential: low to moderate <br />Hayrack soil and similar soils: 30 percent <br />Muggins soil and similar soils: 30 percent <br />Nutras soil and similar soils: 30 percent <br />Contrasting inclusions: 10 percent <br />CONTRASTING INCLUSIONS <br />Five percent Needleton soils on the steeper slopes <br />Five percent Emerald and Broad Canyon soils on the lesser sloping areas <br />MAJOR USES <br />Timber production, wildlife, recreation <br />• <br />Soils Description Report - Wast Elk Mine <br />December 1994 WESTEC 27 <br />