Rangeland Ecology & Management

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NRCS Web Soil Survey
Web Soil Survey (WSS) provides soil data and information produced by the National Cooperative Soil Survey. It is operated by the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) and provides access to the largest natural resource information system in the world. The WSS provides detailed information about soil data and links to ecological site descriptions. The web-based interactive tool allows users to delineate an region of interest (ROI) and find a wealth of relevant edaphic and ecological data related to this ROI.
CART Geographical Scope
USA
CART Topic
Soils
CART Tool Type
Map
Toolkit
Contact Information
To contact state soil scientists find them using the NRCS directory: https://www.nrcs.usda.gov/wps/portal/nrcs/detail/soils/contactus/?cid=nrcs142p2_053951