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Bailey soil series

The Bailey series consists of very deep, well drained soils formed in colluvium derived from rhyolite and tuff with loess influence. Bailey soils are on canyon walls and have slopes of 4 to 80 percent. The mean annual precipitation is about 430 mm and the mean annual air temperature is about 7.5 degrees C.

 

TAXONOMIC CLASS: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, frigid Calcic Haploxerolls

 

USE AND VEGETATION:

Major uses: rangeland and wildlife habitat

Dominant native vegetation: Mountain big sagebrush, bluebunch wheatgrass, Idaho fescue, mountain brome, arrowleaf balsamroot

 

DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT:

Distribution: Southeastern Idaho and Western Wyoming, MLRA 13

Extent: the series is not extensive

 

For additional information about Idaho soils, please visit:

storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/97d01af9d4554b9097cb0a477e04...

 

For a detailed description, visit:

soilseries.sc.egov.usda.gov/OSD_Docs/B/BAILEY.html

 

For acreage and geographic distribution, visit:

casoilresource.lawr.ucdavis.edu/see/#bailey

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Uploaded on January 13, 2011
Taken in January 2000