Clementsville soil and landscape

Soil profile: Typical profile of Clementsville silt loam in an area of Clementsville-Ard complex, 4 to 12 percent slopes. (Soil Survey of Teton Area, Idaho and Wyoming; by Carla B. Rebernak, Natural Resources Conservation Service)

 

Landscape: Harvested grainfield in an area of Clementsville-Ard complex, 4 to 12 percent slopes. Clementsville and similar soils make up about 70 percent and Ard and similar soils make up about 20 percent of this map unit. Clementsville soils are on mountain slopes and have slopes of 4 to 12 percent.

 

The Clementsville series consists of moderately deep, well drained soils that formed in residuum weatherd from rhyolite a with loess influence. The mean annual precipitation is about 530 mm and the mean annual air temperature is about 3.3 degrees C.

 

TAXONOMIC CLASS: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, superactive Calcic Pachic Haplocryolls

 

USE AND VEGETATION:

Major uses: Most areas are cultivated. Wheat, oats, and barley are the major crops.

Dominant native vegetation: mountain big sagebrush, tapertip hawksbeard, slender wheatgrass, Idaho fescue, and bluebunch wheatgrass

 

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 additional information about the survey area, visit:

www.nrcs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_MANUSCRIPTS/wyoming/TetonI...

 

For a detailed description, visit:

soilseries.sc.egov.usda.gov/OSD_Docs/C/CLEMENTSVILLE.html

 

For acreage and geographic distribution, visit:

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

 

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