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  2. National Cooperative Soil Survey - Wikipedia

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    The National Cooperative Soil Survey Program (NCSS) in the United States is a nationwide partnership of federal, regional, state, and local agencies and institutions. This partnership works together to cooperatively investigate, inventory, document, classify, and interpret soils and to disseminate, publish, and promote the use of information about the soils of the United States and its trust ...

  3. USDA soil taxonomy - Wikipedia

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    USDA soil taxonomy (ST) developed by the United States Department of Agriculture and the National Cooperative Soil Survey provides an elaborate classification of soil types according to several parameters (most commonly their properties) and in several levels: Order, Suborder, Great Group, Subgroup, Family, and Series.

  4. Natural Resources Conservation Service - Wikipedia

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    Soil survey products include the Web Soil Survey, [28] the NCSS Characterization Database [29] and many investigative reports and journal articles. [30] In 2015 NRCS began broad support of soil health, which incorporates less tillage and more cover crops to reduce erosion and improve the diversity of the soil. [31] Information is maintained in ...

  5. Soil survey - Wikipedia

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    The most current soil survey data is made available for high end GIS users such as professional consulting companies and universities. Typical information in a published county soil survey includes the following: [1] a brief overview on how to use the survey; a general soil map for comparing the sustainability of large sections of the county

  6. National Resources Inventory - Wikipedia

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    The National Resources Inventory (NRI) is a periodic assessment of the status and changing conditions of the soil, water, and related resources on private land conducted by USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS). The survey has been conducted at 5-year intervals since 1977, most recently in 2007, though a 2010 mid-cycle data ...

  7. Buffer strip - Wikipedia

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    The USDA shows that grassed waterways of less than 5% slopes for a chosen waterway will greatly reduce velocity of draining water within the land. [10] The Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) offers the use of an online Soil survey to view the area of land to be planted and examine slope and soil drainage. [11]

  8. Runoff curve number - Wikipedia

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    Selection of a hydrologic soil group should be done based on measured infiltration rates, soil survey (such as the NRCS Web Soil Survey), or judgement from a qualified soil science or geotechnical professional. The table below presents curve numbers for antecedent soil moisture condition II (average moisture condition).

  9. Soil series - Wikipedia

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    Soil series as established by the National Cooperative Soil Survey of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Natural Resources Conservation Service are a level of classification in the USDA Soil Taxonomy classification system hierarchy. The actual object of classification is the so-called soil individual, or pedon. [1]