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• Exhibit B -Site Description Baller Series The Bailer series consists of shallow, hell drained soils that formed in material u-eathered from sand- stone. These soils are on uplands and are underlain by bedrock at a depth of 10 to 20 inches. Elevation ranges from 5,400 to 6,800 feet. Slopes are 5 to 45 percent. The native vegetation is mainly big and little bluestem, blue grams, side-oats grams, mountainmahogany, and a few scattered ponderosa pine. Mean annual precipi- tation ranges from la to 17 inches, mean annual air temperature ranges from 47' to 49° F, and the frost- free season ranges from 135 to 150 days. In a representative profile the surface layer is dark grayish brown stony sandy loam about 6 inches thick. The subsurface layer is dark grayish brown very stony sandy loam about a inches thick. Below this is hard sandstone. Permeability is moderately rapid, and the available water capacity is lo~v. Reaction is neutral. These soils are used for native grasses. Representative profile of Bailer stony sandy loam in an area of Bailer-Rock outcrop complex, 15 to 45 per- cent slopes, in native grass, about 1,050 feet tivest and 1,650 feet north of the southeast corner of sec. 32, T. 7 N., R. 69 R .: Al---0 to 6 inches; dark grayish brown (lOYR 4/2) stony sandy loam, eery dark gray- ish brown (lOYR 3/2j moist; weak to moderate fine granular structure; soft, very friable; 25 percent stones and cob- bles; noncalcareous; neutral; clear smooth boundary. AC-6 to 11 inches; dark grayish brown (lOYR 4/2) very stony sandy loam, very dark grayish brown (IOYR 3/2) moist; mas- sive; soft, very friable; 60 percent stones and cobbles; noncalcareous; neutral. R-11 inches; hard sandstone bedrock. The A horizon is sandy loam or fine sandy loam and contains 35 to 70 percent stones or cobbles, mainly of sandstone. Reaction ranges from slightly acid to mildly alkaline.