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Custom Soil Resource Report <br />Las Animas County Area, Colorado, Parts of Huerfano and Las Animas <br />Counties <br />LRT— Lorencito - Rombo - Sarcillo complex, 25 to 65 percent slopes <br />Map Unit Setting <br />Elevation: 6,500 to 8,500 feet <br />Mean annual precipitation: 15 to 18 inches <br />Mean annual air temperature: 43 to 50 degrees F <br />Frost -free period: 70 to 135 days <br />Map Unit Composition <br />Lorencito and similar soils: 40 percent <br />Rombo and similar soils: 30 percent <br />Sarcillo and similar soils: 20 percent <br />Minor components: 10 percent <br />Description of Lorencito <br />Setting <br />Landform: Hills <br />Landform position (two- dimensional): Shoulder, backslope <br />Landform position (three- dimensional): Side slope, head slope <br />Down -slope shape: Linear <br />Across -slope shape: Convex <br />Parent material: Slope alluvium and residuum weathered from shale and siltstone <br />Properties and qualities <br />Slope: 30 to 65 percent <br />Depth to restrictive feature: 10 to 20 inches to paralithic bedrock <br />Drainage class: Well drained <br />Capacity of the most limiting layer to transmit water (Ksat): Moderately low to <br />moderately high (0.06 to 0.20 in /hr) <br />Depth to water table: More than 80 inches <br />Frequency of flooding: None <br />Frequency of ponding: None <br />Maximum salinity: Nonsaline (0.0 to 2.0 mmhos /cm) <br />Sodium adsorption ratio, maximum: 2.0 <br />Available water capacity: Very low (about 2.5 inches) <br />Interpretive groups <br />Land capability (non irrigated): 7e <br />Ecological site: Pinus edulis - Juniperus scopulorum /Quercus gambelii <br />(F048AY016NM) <br />Other vegetative classification: Pinyon /juniper (PIED /JUSC2) <br />Typical profile <br />0 to 4 inches: Channery clay loam <br />4 to 16 inches: Parachannery clay <br />16 to 26 inches: Bedrock <br />Description of Rombo <br />Setting <br />Landform: Hills <br />10 <br />