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The complex is not suitable for cultivation, mainly because it is erodible, <br />shallow, and sloping to steep. The areas should be seeded with native <br />grasses. In the more accessible areas, overgrazing is prevented by placing <br />water, fences and salt so that livestock graze the entire range. Although <br />reseeding may be difficult in some eroded or overgrazed azeas, seeds <br />germinate quickly if the soil is moist and covered with litter. Young plants <br />should not be grazed until they aze well established. Capability unit VIe-3 <br />(dryland); Wages soils aze in Loamy Plains range site and windbreak <br />suitability group l; Eckley soils are in Gravel Breaks range site and <br />windbreak suitability group 3; and Dix soils aze in Gravel Breaks range site <br />and windbreak suitability group 2. <br />Chappel Series <br />The Chappel series consists of neazly level to gently sloping sandy loans that <br />aze on terraces along intermittent streams. These soils aze moderately deep <br />over sand and gravel. They aze well drained and somewhat excessively <br />drained. <br />In a typical profile the surface layer is grayish-brown loam It is soft, easily <br />worked, and about 5 inches thick. In most places gravel is scattered on the <br />surface. <br />The subsoil, about 14 inches thick, is sandy loam that is grayish-brown in the <br />upper part and dazk grayish-brown in the lower part. About 10 to 15 percent <br />of this layer is fine gravel. <br />Below the subsoil, at a depth of about 19 inches, is dazk grayish-brown sandy <br />loam This is underlain by brown gravelly coazse sand. About 40 to 50 <br />percent of the material is fine gravel that restricts the growth of plant roots. <br />Chappell soils aze well drained or somewhat excessively drained. They have <br />moderate to rapid permeability and slow runoff. These soils have moderately <br />low available water holding capacity and aze moderate to low in fertility. <br />Chappell soils are susceptible to both soil blowing and water erosion and aze <br />flooded periodically. <br />The native vegetation consists of western wheatgrass, blue grams, little <br />bluestem, sandreed, side-oats grarna, needle-and-thread, and similaz grasses. <br />Almost all of the acreage is cultivated, mainly to sorghums, winter wheat, <br />and barley. <br />Typical profile of a Chappell sandy loam in a cultivated wheatfield (530 feet <br />east, 75 feet south of the northwest corner of section 1, T7N, R47W. <br />