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Custer County Area, Colorado • rr • <br />(1 T/S , <br />depth of more than 32 inches. Surface runoff is medium, <br />and the hazard of erosion is high to very high. <br />The Coutis soil is dee~nd well drained. It formed in <br />11 inches <br />ma~dark brown sandy~oam 37Tnches thick. The <br />substratum is brown gravelly loam to a depth of 60 <br />inches or more. The soil is slightly acid to a depth of 11 <br />inches and neutral below that depth. <br />Permeability of the Coutis soil is moderately rapid, and <br />the available water capacity is moderate. The effective <br />rooting depth is 60 inches or more. Surface runoff is <br />medium, and the hazard of erosion is high. <br />Most of the acreage of this complex is rangeland. <br />The potential native vegetation is mainly <br />needleandthread, western wheatgrass, Arizona fescue, <br />and mountain muhly. As the range deteriorates, blue <br />grams, gray horsebrush, sleepygrass, slimstem muhly, <br />rabbitbrush, and snakeweed increase. Renovating and <br />using a planned grazing system and cross fencing help <br />to prevent range deterioration and promote the <br />production of the more desirable plant species. In <br />renovating, seed should be drilled into a well prepared, <br />15 <br />The main limitation for homesites is slope. Designs <br />need to be modified for septic tank absorption fields. <br />Good ground cover should be maintained during <br />construction to limit the risk of erosion. The Coutis soil is <br />a good source of topsoil. <br />This complex is in capability subclass Vle, nonirrigated. <br />12-Gelkie sandy loam, to 10 percent slopes. <br />This is a deep, well drained s it on fans and terraces. It <br />formed in alluvium (fig. 3 vation is 7,900 to 9,300 <br />feet. The average an al precipitation is 15 to 20 inches, <br />the average annual air mperature is 40 to 44 degrees <br />F, and the frost-tree sea is 55 to 75 days. <br />Typically, the surtace laye 's dark brown sandy loam <br />13 inches thick. The subsoil is rown sandy clay loam 2 <br />inches thick over brown cobbly andy clay loam 25 <br />inches thick. The substratum ' ink very gravelly sandy <br />loam to a depth of 60 in s or more. The soil is neutral <br />to a depth of 28 inches d moderately alkaline and <br />calcareous below that de <br />Included with this soil in Aping are areas of Libeg <br />extremely cobbly sandy loam n terrace edges. They <br />Figure Z-Feltonia sandy loam, 2 to 6 percent slopes, in Mountain Loam range site on fan along east side of Wet Mountain Valley. <br />Sangre de Christo Range is in background. <br />