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  2. USDA soil taxonomy - Wikipedia

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    There are 12 soil orders (the top hierarchical level) in soil taxonomy. [2] [3] The names of the orders end with the suffix -sol. The criteria for the different soil orders include properties that reflect major differences in the genesis of soils. [4] The orders are: Alfisol – soils with aluminium and iron.

  3. Soil in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Although the United States has many sites with contaminated soils, it has been a leader in defining and implementing standards for cleanup. [4] Each year, thousands of sites complete soil contamination cleanup, some by using microbes that “eat up” toxic chemicals in soil, [5] many others by simple excavation and others by soil vapor extraction, air stripping, or solvent extraction, with ...

  4. National Cooperative Soil Survey - Wikipedia

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    The National Cooperative Soil Survey Program (NCSS) is a partnership led by the United States Department of Agriculture's Natural Resources Conservation Service of Federal land management agencies, state agricultural experiment stations, counties, conservation districts, and other special-purpose districts that provide soil survey information necessary for understanding, managing, conserving ...

  5. Ministry of Soil and Water Conservation (Maharashtra)

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    12 March 1986 282 days Indian National Congress: Nilangekar: Shivajirao Patil Nilangekar: 20 Vilasrao Deshmukh (MLA for Latur City Constituency No. 235- Latur District) (Legislative Assembly) 12 March 1986 26 June 1988 2 years, 106 days Indian National Congress: Shankarrao II: Shankarrao Chavan: 21 Sharad Pawar (MLA for Baramati Constituency No ...

  6. Land Suitability classification - Wikipedia

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    Land suitability Orders indicate whether land is assessed as suitable or not suitable for the use under consideration. There are two orders represented in maps, tables, etc. by the symbols S and N respectively. Order S: Suitable. Land on which sustained use of the kind under consideration is expected to yield benefits which justify the inputs ...

  7. Conservation development - Wikipedia

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    Parismina, main street, Costa Rica. Conservation development, also known as conservation design, is a controlled-growth land use development that adopts the principle for allowing limited sustainable development while protecting the area's natural environmental features in perpetuity, including preserving open space landscape and vista, protecting farmland or natural habitats for wildlife, and ...

  8. Entisol - Wikipedia

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    Most fossil soils, before the development of terrestrial vegetation in the Silurian, are entisols that show no distinct soil horizons. Entisols are common in the paleopedological record ever since the Silurian; however, unlike other soil orders (oxisol, ultisol, gelisol, etc) they do not have value as indicators of climate. Orthents may ...

  9. Oregon Department of Land Conservation and Development

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    Under the program, all cities and counties have adopted comprehensive plans that meet mandatory state standards. The standards are set forth in 19 Statewide Planning Goals that address land use, development, housing, transportation, and conservation of natural resources. Periodic review of plans and technical assistance in the form of grants to ...