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Typical profile <br />0 to 3 inches - clay loam <br />3 to 21 inches - clay loam <br />21 to 38 inches - clay loam <br />38 to 60 inches - sandy clay loam <br />Minor Components <br />Nyswonger and similar soils <br />Composition: About 5 percent <br />Major Uses <br />Hay, livestock grazing, wildlife habitat <br />71- Nyswonger silt clay loam, 1 to 4 percent slopes <br />Map Unit Setting <br />Major Land Resource Area: 35 <br />Elevation: 4,900 to 6,800 feet (1,494 to 2,073 meters) <br />Mean annual precipitation: 10 to 14 inches (254 to 356 millimeters) <br />Average annual air temperature: 46 to 49 degrees F (8 to 10 degrees C) <br />Frost free period: 110 to 140 days <br />Nyswonger and similar soils: 90 percent <br />Minor components: 10 percent <br />Nyswonger soils <br />Map Unit Composition <br />Component Descriptions <br />Landform: Alluvial fan, valley floor, terrace <br />Parent material: Alluvium derived from sandstone and shale <br />Slope: 1 to 4 percent <br />Drainage Class: Moderately well drained <br />Slowest permeability: Slow <br />Available water capacity: About 9.2 inches (high) <br />Shrink -swell potential: About 4.5 percent (moderate) <br />Hazard of flooding: Rare <br />Depth to seasonal high water table: 42 to 48 inches <br />Runoff class: High <br />Calcium carbonate maximum: About 15 percent <br />Salinity maximum: About 2 mmhos /cm (nonsaline) <br />Ecological site: Foothill Swale <br />Potential native vegetation: basin wildrye, basin big sagebrush, streambank wheatgrass, <br />Section 2.04.9 Page 8 November 2011 <br />