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Soil: Limon silty clay loam, 0 to 2 % slopes <br />Map Unit: LnA <br />General Description: This is a deep, well-drained soil that formed on alluvial fans and terraces in clayey <br />alluvium. The slope is up to about 5%. This soil gullies quite readily and some of the gullies can be up to 10 <br />feet deep. Permeability is slow and the available water capacity is high. Surface layers are moderately <br />alkaline, but deeper zones can be moderately to strongly alkaline. Rooting is deep. <br />Related Soils: Razor soils compose about 5% of the acreage. <br />Range Site: Salt Flats <br />General Characteristics - If in excellent condition and in a good year, production can be <br />up to about 2,000 Ibs/acre per year, but only about 800 pounds in other years. About 85 <br />of the production is useful for cattle. <br />Major Plant Species -Potential community: 53% alkali sacaton, 15% western wheatgrass, <br />10% saltgrass, 5%galleta, 5% fourwing saltbush, 5% alkaligrass, and 5% blue grama, 1% <br />buffalograss, and 1 % rabbitbrush. <br />With heavy grazing the western wheatgrass, alkali sacaton, and fourwing saltbush <br />decline or disappear leaving saltgrass, blue grama, and galleta. Severe grazing causes a <br />change to annual fortis (weeds), rabbitbrush, greasewood, and perennial fortis. <br />Wildlife Habitat Suitability: <br />Suitability of soil for elements of wildlife habitat - <br /> Irrigated Non-irrigated <br />Grain and seed crops: Fair Poor <br />Grasses and legumes: Fair Poor <br />Wild herbaceous plants: ------- Fair <br />Hardwood trees: ------- --------- <br />Coniferous plants: ------- --------- <br />Shrubs: Good Fair <br />Wetland plants: ------- Poor <br />Shallow water areas: ------- Very poor <br />Suitability of soil for kinds of wildlife - <br />Openland: Fair Poor <br />Woodland: --------- --------- <br />Wetland: --------- Very poor <br />Rangeland: Fair Fair <br />