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1 <br />and loamy sand. Permeability is moderately rapid. Available water capacity is low. Runoff is <br />slow or medium, and the hazazd of water erosion is slight to moderate. <br />The Badland Series is on rolling to very steep, neazly barren mountainsides, low hills, <br />' ridge tops, and canyon sides. Slope is 10-65 percent. The native vegetation is mainly very spazse <br />low desert shrubs and grasses. The average frost-free period is 75-130 days. Badland is very <br />shallow and exhibits no significant soil characteristics. The soil material consists of residuum <br />' derived dominantly from highly calcazeous and gypsiferous shale bentonite. Included in this <br />unit area aze small aeeas of Chipeta and Dollard silty clay loams, Moyerson clay loam, and Rock <br />outcrop. Permeability of Badland is very slow. Available water capacity is very slow. Effective <br />' rooting depth is 0 to 10 inches. Runoff is very rapid, and the hazard of water erosion is very <br />high, which results in a lazge amount of sedimentation during rainstorms and when snow melts. <br />The Battlement Loam Series, 1 to 8 percent slopes. This unit consists of well-drained <br />' soils that formed in sediment derived from mixed materials on mesas and terraces. The surface <br />layer is loam about 5 inches thick. Perreability is moderately slow. Available water capacity is <br />moderate. Runoff is medium and hazard of erosion is moderate to very high. <br />The Hesperus-Empedrado, moist-Pagoda, 3-12 percent slopes. This complex is well <br />drained and formed in alluvium, colluvium and derived dominantly from shale. Permeability is <br />' slow to moderate. The native vegetation is mainly spazse desert shrubs and annual grasses. <br />Available water capacity is high. Runoff is medium to rapid and the hazazd of water erosion is <br />high to very high. <br />The Torriorthents Complex, 35-90 percent slopes. Torriorthents is in extremely rough <br />and eroded aeeas on mountains, hills, ridges and canyon sides. Slopes mainly face south. That <br />native vegetation is mainly sparse shrubs and grasses with some pinyon and juniper trees. The <br />average frost-free period is 70-130 days. The soil material includes small aeeas of Bazcus <br />channery loamy sand, Glendive fine sandy loam, Havre loam, Moyerson stony clay loam, Nihill <br />channery sandy loam, Patent loam, Redcreek sandy loam, Rentsac channery loans, Sinkson <br />gravelly sandy loam, and Blazon, Castner, and Clifterson channery loamy. Tomorthents are <br />very shallow to moderately deep and aze well drained to somewhat excessively drained. <br />Permeability of the Torriorthents is moderate. Available water capacity is very low. Effective <br />rooting depth is 10 to 20 inches. Runoff is very rapid, and the hazazd of water erosion is very <br />high. <br />The Tomfluvents Complex is along narrow valley bottoms, in swales, and on eroded <br />fans. Slope is 0 to 5 percent. The native vegetation is mainly sparse desert shrubs and annual <br />grasses. The average frost-free period is 75 to 130 days. Torrifluvents are moderately deep and <br />are well drained and somewhat excessively drained. The soil materia] contains small areas of <br />Absher loam, Billings silty clay loam, Chipeta silty clay loam, Glenton sandy loam, Havre <br />loam, Tisworth fine sandy loam, Turley fine sazidy loam and Uffens loam. Permeability of the <br />Tomfluvents is moderately rapid to slow. Available water capacity is moderate to high. Runoff <br />is rapid and the hazard of water erosion is very high, which results in high production of <br />sediment during rainstorms and periods of snowmelt. <br />Tosca Channery Loam Complex, 12 to 25 percent slopes. This deep, well-drained soil is <br />on mountainside slopes. It is formed in residium from glacial till derived dominantly from <br />Basalt and mixed sources. The surface layer is very stony loam about 3 inches thick. <br />