Ebeys soil series
The Ebeys series consists of very deep, moderately well drained soils formed in eolian and glacial drift sands. Ebeys soils are on remnant dunes and on glacial drift plains at elevations of 0 to 80 meters. Slopes are 0 to 8 percent. The mean annual precipitation is about 560 mm. The mean annual temperature is about 10 degrees C.
TAXONOMIC CLASS: Sandy, isotic, mesic Aquultic Haploxerolls
Mean annual soil temperature 11 to 12 degrees C.
Soil moisture control section dry 75 to 90 days following the summer solstice.
Thickness of mollic epipedon 25 to 60 cm
Base saturation by ammonium acetate - greater than 50 percent within the epipedon
Base saturation by sum of cations - less than 75 percent from 25 to 75 cm
Reaction Slightly acid to moderately acid.
USE AND VEGETATION: Ebeys soils are used for crop production, forage crop production, livestock grazing, and wildlife habitat. Wheat, oats, barley, alfalfa, and vegetables for produce and for seed are common crops. Potential natural vegetation may include an overstory of scattered Oregon white oak and Douglas-fir but is primarily prairie grass vegetation including Roemer's fescue, western brackenfern, chocolate lily, camas, baldhip rose, common snowberry, and trailing blackberry.
DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT: Northwest Washington. MLRA 2, North. Series is of small extent. The Ebeys series was mapped in the 1950 Island County, Washington Soil Survey but an official series description was never written. This series had an inactive status in the Soil Series Classification database before 12/2007.
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Ebeys soil series
The Ebeys series consists of very deep, moderately well drained soils formed in eolian and glacial drift sands. Ebeys soils are on remnant dunes and on glacial drift plains at elevations of 0 to 80 meters. Slopes are 0 to 8 percent. The mean annual precipitation is about 560 mm. The mean annual temperature is about 10 degrees C.
TAXONOMIC CLASS: Sandy, isotic, mesic Aquultic Haploxerolls
Mean annual soil temperature 11 to 12 degrees C.
Soil moisture control section dry 75 to 90 days following the summer solstice.
Thickness of mollic epipedon 25 to 60 cm
Base saturation by ammonium acetate - greater than 50 percent within the epipedon
Base saturation by sum of cations - less than 75 percent from 25 to 75 cm
Reaction Slightly acid to moderately acid.
USE AND VEGETATION: Ebeys soils are used for crop production, forage crop production, livestock grazing, and wildlife habitat. Wheat, oats, barley, alfalfa, and vegetables for produce and for seed are common crops. Potential natural vegetation may include an overstory of scattered Oregon white oak and Douglas-fir but is primarily prairie grass vegetation including Roemer's fescue, western brackenfern, chocolate lily, camas, baldhip rose, common snowberry, and trailing blackberry.
DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT: Northwest Washington. MLRA 2, North. Series is of small extent. The Ebeys series was mapped in the 1950 Island County, Washington Soil Survey but an official series description was never written. This series had an inactive status in the Soil Series Classification database before 12/2007.
For a detailed description, visit:
soilseries.sc.egov.usda.gov/OSD_Docs/E/EBEYS.html
For acreage and geographic distribution, visit: