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COMPETING SERIES: <br />Chuoe (T): are dry in some part of the soil moisture control section in late spring and eazly summer <br />Draknab (WY): aze never moist in some or all parts for as long as 60 consecutive days when the soil at 20 inches is 41 <br />degrees or more <br />Ellicott (CO): are noncalcazeous, contain a high proportion of medium and coarse angular granite sand and fine and very fine <br />angulaz granitic gavel <br />Escavada (NM): are driest from April through June <br />Kwakina (NM){T): aze driest from April through June <br />GEOGRAPHIC SETTING: <br />Landscape: river valleys <br />Landform: flood plains, low terraces <br />Slopes: 0 to 6 percent <br />Elevation: 2500 to 5900 feet <br />Pazent material: stratified, calcareous, coarse-textured, recent alluvium <br />Mean annual av temperature: 47 to 55 degrees F. <br />Mean annual precipitation: 10 to 17 inches -peak periods in spring and eazly sttmmer <br />Frost-free period: 95 to 160 days <br />GEOGRAPHICALLY ASSOCIATED SOILS: <br />Craft: have acoarse-silty control section <br />Glenberg: have a coazse-loamy control section <br />Haverson: have afine-loamy control section <br />DRAINAGE AND PERMEABILITY: Well to somewhat excessively drained; low to very low runoff; rapid to very rapid <br />permeability. <br />USE AND VEGETATION: These soils are used chiefly as native pastureland; however, they are tilled in some localities. <br />Native vegetation consists of scattered cottonwood, grass and brush. <br />DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT: The floodplains and low terraces of the major streams and rivers in Colorado, Kansas, <br />Wyoming, New Mexico and parts of South Dakota, Nebraska and eastern Utah. <br />MLRA OFFICE RESPONSIBLE: Salina, Kansas <br />SERIES ESTABLISHED: Red Willow County, Nebraska, 1965. <br />REMARKS: Last updated by state 2/94. <br />ADDITIONAL DATA: <br />T: 5 <br />K: .17 <br />WEG: 1 <br />WEI: 220 <br />National Cooperative Soil Survey <br />U.S.A. <br />