Arguably, soil colors are one of the few things that are of equal interest to natural resource scientists at work and to children at play. The USDA-SPSD recently developed a set of images to communicate the complexity, variability, and magnificence of soil colors.
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TSS personnel assist users with understanding and properly using the soil survey and provide users with predictions and interpretations about the behavior of each kind of soil mapped or identified under defined situations. Click on the map to see the reports.
What do you get when you combine 26,000 official soil series descriptions (OSD), a handful of NRCS employees, and an idea? An evolving soil color map of the continental U.S., that’s what! See more ...
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