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• Fuera-Dargol-Varner Complex, 3 to 25 percent slopes (map symbol P3E) <br />This complex includes deep soils which have developed in residuum on mountain slopes. It is <br />found at elevations of 6900 to 9000 feet in mixed conifer communities. These are well drained <br />soils with slow to very slow permeability. The water erosion hazard is very high and the wind <br />erosion hazard varies from slight to high. <br />A typical profile includes a surface layer with 3 to 7 inches of duff, cobbly loam, loam, and/or <br />fine sandy loam. The subsurface and subsoil layers consist of 13 to 40 inches of cobbly clay loam, <br />cobbly clay, clay, and/or fine sandy loam. The substratum, where present is at least 13 inches <br />thick consisting of cobbly clay. Depth to bedrock is from 16 to more than 60 inches. <br />Saru~che-Rbfibo Complex, 35 to 50 percent slopes (map symbol C3F) <br />This complex includes shallow to moderately deep soils which have developed in residuum on <br />mountain slopes. It is found at elevations of 6900 to 8500 feet in piiion juniper and scrub oak <br />communities. These are well drained soils with slow permeability. The water erosion hazard is <br />very high, but there is no wind erosion hazard. <br />A typical profile includes a surface layer with 4 inches of channery silty clay loam. The subsoil, <br />• where present, consists of 20 inches of very shaly and channery silty clay loam. The substratum, <br />where present, consists of 12 inches of very shaly silty clay loam. Depth to bedrock is from 16 <br />to 34 inches. ~/ <br />Lotpers-Rom-bo-Travessilla Complex, 30 to 65 percent slopes (map symbol PjF) <br />This complex includes shallow to moderately deep soils which have developed in residuum on <br />mountain slopes. It is found at elevations of 6500 to 7800 feet in piiion juniper and grassland <br />communities. These are well drained soils with slow to moderately rapid permeability. The water <br />erosion hazard is very high, and the wind erosion hazard is slight to high. <br />A typical profile includes a surface layer with 4 to 6 inches of very channery clay loam, channery <br />silty clay loam or sandy loam. The subsoil, where present, consists of 32 inches of channery silty <br />clay loam. The substratum, where present, is 9 to 12 inches of clay loam, clay, and/or sandy <br />loam. Depth to bedrock is from 14 to 38 inches. <br />Field Investigations and Lab Analyses <br />The 24 soil profiles examined on July 16, 17, and 18, 1996, indicated that observed Feld <br />conditions (Appendix S-2) correlated closely with the NRCS mapping. An exception were areas <br />within Puertecito and Jeff Canyons mapped by the NRCS as Shawa Loam. Sampling in these <br />• areas revealed shallow soils which fit more closely with the NRCS description for the Louviers- <br />soils.476/December 3, 1996 4 <br />