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wheatgrass, and tall fescue are suitable for seeding. They can be seeded into a clean, firm <br />seedbed. Seedbed preparation usually requires more than 1 year to eliminate the saltgrass <br />sod. A grass drill should be used. Seeding early in spring has proven most successful. <br />Wetland wildlife, especially waterfowl, utilizes this unit. The wetland plants provide <br />nesting and protective cover, as well as food. The nearby irrigated cropland, where wildlife <br />obtain much of their food and find protective cover, makes this unit valuable to both <br />wetland and openland wildlife. <br />Open land wildlife, especially pheasant, uses this unit for cover and nesting. Deer find <br />excellent cover in some areas. These valuable wildlife areas should be protected from fire <br />and fenced to prevent encroachment and overuse by livestock. They should not be drained. <br />These soils have good potential as a source of sand and gravel. Capability subclass Viw; <br />Salt Meadow range site. <br />8 -Ascalon loam, 0-1 % slopes <br />This is a deep, well drained soil on terraces at elevation of 4500 to 4900 feet. It formed in <br />alluvium deposited by the major rivers in the survey area. Included in mapping are small <br />azeas where sand and gravel aze with in a depth of 60 inches. Also included are small areas <br />of soils that have a clay loam subsoil. <br />Typically, the surface layer of this Ascalon soil is brown loam aboutl0 inches thick. The <br />subsoil is brown and yellowish brown sandy clay loam about 15 inches thick. The <br />substratum to a depth 60 inches is calcareous sandy loam. <br />Permeability is moderate. Available water capacity is high. The effective rooting depth is <br />60 inches or more. Surface runoff is slow, and the erosion hazard is low. <br />This soil is used almost entirely for imgate crops. It is suited to all crops commonly grown <br />in the azea, including corn, sugar beets, beans alfalfa, small grain, potatoes, and onion. An <br />example of a suitable cropping system is 3 to 4 years of alfalfa followed by com, corn for <br />silage, sugar beets, small grain, or beans. Few conservation practices are needed to <br />maintain top yields. <br />All methods of irrigation are suitable, but furrow irrigation is the most common. Barnyard <br />manure and commercial fertilizer are needed for top yields. <br />Windbreaks and environmental plantings are generally well suited to this soil. Cultivation <br />to control competing vegetation should be continued for as many years as possible <br />following planting. Trees that are best suited and have good survival are Rocky Mountain <br />juniper, eastern redcedar, ponderosa pine, Siberian elm, Russian-olive, and hackberry. The <br />shmbs best suited aze skunkbush sumac, lilac, Siberian peashrub, and American plum. <br />Wilildlife is an important secondary use of this soil. The cropland areas provide favorable <br />habitat for ring-necked pheasant and mourning dove. Many non-game species can be <br />F[ Lupton Pit <br />DMG 712 Permit <br />Page 37 oj81 <br />