General Soil Type: L5f Region: L

Map Unit Description: Fine-silty, somewhat cool loessial soils that have clay-enriched

subsoils; these soils in old, deeply-weathered loess; those

formed under conifers have light-colored topsoils; those

formed under steppe vegetation have dark-colored,

humus-rich topsoils

Moisture Regime: Xeric

Temperature Regime: Mesic to Frigid

Taxonomic Classification: Mollic Palexeralfs, Ultic Palexeralfs, Ultic Argixerolls,

Xeric Argialbolls, Ultic Haploxeralfs

Major Soil Series: Freeman-Larkin-Naff-Dearyton-Cloverland-Teanaway