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Klickson soil and landscape

Landscape--plateaus, mountains

Landform--north-facing side slopes of canyons, escarpments of hills, backslopes of basalt plateaus, structural benches, lower slopes of mountains

Slope--0 to 90 percent

Parent material--loess mixed with volcanic ash over colluvium and residuum derived from basalt

Mean annual precipitation--about 660 mm

Mean annual air temperature--about 6 degrees C

Depth class--deep, very deep

Drainage class--well drained

Soil moisture regime--xeric

Soil temperature regime--frigid

Soil moisture subclass--typic

 

TAXONOMIC CLASS: Loamy-skeletal, isotic, frigid Vitrandic Argixerolls

 

Thickness of mollic epipedon--25 to 50 cm

Estimated base saturation--less than 75 percent, by sum of cations, in one horizon or more between depths of 25 and 75 cm

Depth to bedrock--more than 100 cm

Soil moisture control section--dry 45 to 60 consecutive days

Mean annual soil temperature--5 to 8 degrees C

Mean summer soil temperature in areas that do not have an O horizon--15 to 17 degrees C

Thickness of layers influenced by volcanic ash--25 to 75 cm

 

USE AND VEGETATION:

Use--timber production

Potential natural vegetation--dominantly Douglas-fir, ponderosa pine, mallow ninebark, creambush oceanspray, and common snowberry

 

DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT: North-central Idaho, northeastern and central Oregon, eastern Washington; MLRAs 9 and 10; moderate extent

 

For additional information about Idaho soils, please visit:

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

 

For a detailed soil description, visit:

soilseries.sc.egov.usda.gov/OSD_Docs/K/KLICKSON.html

 

For acreage and geographic distribution, visit:

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

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