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The complex is not suitable for cultivation, mainly because it is erodible, shallow, and sloping to steep. The azeas should be seeded with native grasses. In the more accessible areas, overgrazing is prevented by placing water, fences and salt so that livestock graze the entire range. Although reseeding may be difficult in some eroded or overgrazed areas, seeds germinate quickly if the soil is moist and covered with litter. Young plants should not be grazed until they aze well established. Capability unit VIe-3 (dryland); Wages soils are in Loamy Plains range site and windbreak suitability group 1; Eckley soils aze in Gravel Breaks range site and windbreak suitability group 3; and Dix soils are in Gravel Breaks range site and windbreak suitability group 2. Chappell Series The Chappell series consists of neazly level to gently sloping sandy loams that aze on terraces along intermittent streams. These soils are moderately deep over sand and gravel. They aze well drained or somewhat excessively drained. In a typical profile the surface layer is grayish-brown loam It is soft, easily worked, and about 5 inches thick. In most places gravel is scattered on the surface. The subsoil, about 14 inches thick, is sandy loam that is grayish-brown in the upper part and dazk grayish-brown in the lower part. About 10 to 15 percent of this layer is fine gravel. Below the subsoil, at a depth of about 19 inches, is dark grayish-brown sandy loam. This is underlain by brown gravelly coarse sand. About 40 to 50 percent of the material is fine gravel that restricts the growth of plant roots. Chappell soils aze well drained or somewhat excessively drained. They have moderate to rapid permeability and slow runoff. These soils have moderately low available water holding capacity and are moderate to low in fertility. Chappell soils aze susceptible to both soil blowing and water erosion and aze flooded periodically. The native vegetation consists of western wheatgrass, blue grams, little bluestem, sandreed, side-oats grams, needle-and-thread, and similaz grasses. Almost all ofthe acreage is cultivated, mainly to sorghums, winter wheat, and bazley. Typical profile of a Chappell sandy loam in a cultivated wheatfield (530 feet east, 75 feet south of the northwest corner of section 1, T7N, R47W.