Kucera soil series

A representative soil profile of the Kucera series. (Soil Survey of Teton Area, Idaho and Wyoming; by Carla B. Rebernak, Natural Resources Conservation Service)

 

The Kucera series consists of very deep, well drained soils formed in loess and silty alluvium from mixed sources. They are on terraces, hills, ridges, basalt plains, and hills. Slopes are 0 to 50 percent. Mean annual precipitation is about 380 mm and the mean annual air temperature is about 6.0 degrees C.

 

TAXONOMIC CLASS: Coarse-silty, mixed, superactive, frigid Calcic Pachic Haploxerolls

 

Mollic epipedon thickness: 50 to 109 cm

Depth to calcic horizon: 50 to 109 cm

Calcium carbonate equivalent in calcic horizon: 15 to 35 percent

Mean summer soil temperature: 15 to 18.9 degrees C.

Mean annual soil temperature: 5.0 to 8.0 degrees C. (frigid soil temperature regime)

Particle size control section total clay: 8 to 18 percent with less than 15 percent fine sand and coarser sand plus gravel

 

USE AND VEGETATION:

Major uses: cropland and rangeland; principle crops are irrigated and nonirrigated wheat, barley, alfalfa hay, pasture and irrigated potatoes

Dominant native vegetation: The potential native vegetation is bluebunch wheatgrass, Idaho fescue, mountain big and basin big sagebrush and needlegrass

 

DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT:

Distribution: Southeastern Idaho and Western Wyoming, MLRA 13

Extent: These soils are moderately extensive

 

For additional information about the survey area, visit:

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

 

For a detailed soil description, visit:

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

 

For acreage and geographic distribution, visit:

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

 

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