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Moffat County Area, Colorado <br />Minor Components <br />Soils with seasonal high water tables deeper than 1 <br />foot and similar soils <br />Composition: About 3 percent <br />Soils that are ponded and similar soils <br />Composition: About 2 percent <br />71-Flygare loam, dry, 25 to 65 percent <br />slopes <br />Map Unit Setting <br />Major Land Resource Area: 48A <br />Elevation: 7,000 to 8,400 feet (2,134 to 2,560 meters) <br />Mean annual precipitation: 18 to 20 inches (457 to <br />508 millimeters) <br />Mean annual air temperature: 37 to 40 degrees F <br />(2.8 to 4.4 degrees C.) <br />Freeze-free period. 50 to 75 days <br />Map Unit Composition <br />Flygare and similar soils: 85 percent <br />Minor cotnponents: 15 percent <br />Component Descriptions <br />Flygare soils <br />Landform: Mountainsides <br />Parent material: Colluvium derived from sandstone <br />and shale <br />Slope: 25 to 65 percent <br />Drainage class: Well drained <br />Slowest permeability:. 0.2 to 0.6 in./hr. (moderately <br />slow) <br />Available water capacity. About 5.8 inches (low) <br />Shrink-swell potential. About 1.5 percent (low) <br />Runoff class: High <br />Calcium carbonate maximum: None <br />Gypsum maximum: None <br />Salinity maximum: About 0 mmhos/cm (nonsaline) <br />Sodium adsorption ratio maximum: About 0 <br />(nonsodic) <br />Ecological site: Brushy Loam <br />Potential native vegetation: Gambel's oak, Saskatoon <br />serviceberry, elk sedge, mountain brome, <br />Letterman's needlegrass, common chokecherry, <br />mountain snowberry, nodding brome, slender <br />wheatgrass <br />Land capability subclass (nonirrigated): 7e <br />Typical Profile: <br />0 to 1 inch; slightly-decomposed plant material <br />1 inch to 22 inches; loam <br />77 <br />22 to 29 inches; very cobbly loam <br />29 to .35 inches; very cobbly clay loam <br />35 to 60 inches; extremely cobbly clay loam <br />Minor Components <br />Foidel and similar soils <br />Composition: About 8 percent <br />Skyway and similar soils <br />Composition: About 7 percent <br />72-Foidel loam, cool, 3 to 25 percent <br />slopes <br />Map Unit Setting <br />Major Land Resource Area: 48A <br />Elevation: 7,000 to 8,400 feet (2,134 to 2,560 meters) <br />Meat) annual precipitation: 18 to 20 inches (457 to <br />508 millimeters) <br />Mean annual air temperature: 37 to 40 degrees F <br />(2.8 to 4.4 degrees C.) <br />Freeze-free period. 50 to 75 days <br />Map Unit Composition <br />Foidel and similar soils: 85 percent <br />Minor components: 15 percent <br />Component Descriptions <br />Foidel soils <br />Landform: Mountainsides, Plateaus <br />Parent material. Loess and residuum derived from <br />fine grained sandstone and shale <br />Slope: 3 to 25 percent <br />Drainage class: Well drained <br />Slowest permeability. 0.2 to 0.6 in./hr. (moderately <br />slow) <br />Available water capacity. About 10.9 inches (high) <br />Shrink-swell potential. About 4.5 percent (moderate) <br />Runoff class. Medium <br />Calcium carbonate maximum: None <br />Gypsum maximum: None <br />Salinity maximum: About 0 mmhos/cm (nonsaline) <br />Sodium adsorption ratio ma)(imuni: <br />About 0 (nonsodic) <br />Ecological site. Brushy Loam <br />Potential native vegetation. Gambel's oak, Saskatoon <br />serviceberry; mountain brome, Letterman's <br />needlegrass, common chokecherry, elk sedge, <br />mountain snowberry, slender wheatgrass <br />Land capability subclass (nonirrigated): 6e