Natural Resources
Conservation Service
Major Land Resource Area 058C
Major Land Resource Area
Accessed: 04/24/2026
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Explore the ecological site description
Next, learn more about the selected ecological site and its characteristic dynamics by browsing the ecological site description and exploring alternative state and transition model formats.
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Zoom in to display soil survey map units for an area of interest, and zoom out to display MLRAs. Select a map unit polygon to view ecological sites correlated to that map unit. View a brief description of an ecological site by clicking on its name in the map popup. Soil survey correlations may not be accurate, and ecological site classification of a location should always be verified in the field. Each selection may require the transfer of several hundred KB of data.
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Ecological sites
Major Land Resource Areas
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R058CY103ND – Badland
R058CY102ND – Flat-Bottom Wooded Draw
R058CY101ND – Steep-Sided Wooded Draw
R058CY092ND – Wet Meadow
R058CY090ND – Saline Lowland
R058CY089ND – Sandy Terrace
R058CY096ND – Clayey Terrace
R058CY091ND – Loamy Terrace
R058CY074ND – Loamy Overflow
R058CY088ND – Shallow Sandy
R058CY085ND – Sandy Claypan
R058CY095ND – Limy Sands
R058CY077ND – Sandy
R058CY086ND – Shallow Loamy
R058CY083ND – Very Shallow
R058CY082ND – Choppy Sands
R058CY072ND – Clayey
R058CY081ND – Thin Claypan
R058CY073ND – Claypan
R058CY070ND – Badland Fan
R058CY074ND – Loamy Overflow
R058CY079ND – Limy Residual
R058CY080ND – Loamy
Long term average mean annual precipitation
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- 35 – 40cm (14 – 16in)
Long term average frost free days
- No filter
- 90 – 110days
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- 400 – 600m (1300 – 2000ft)
- 600 – 800m (2000 – 2600ft)
- 800 – 1000m (2600 – 3300ft)
- 1000 – 1200m (3300 – 3900ft)
- No filter
- 0 – 3%
- 3 – 5%
- 5 – 10%
- 10 – 15%
- 15 – 20%
- 20 – 25%
- 25 – 30%
- 30 – 35%
- 35 – 40%
- 40 – 45%
- 45 – 50%
- 50 – 60%
- 60 – 70%
- 70 – 80%
- 80 – 90%
- 90 – 100%
- No filter
- Alluvial fan
- Alluvial flat
- Butte
- Drainageway
- Draw
- Dune
- Escarpment
- Flood plain
- Hillslope
- Knob
- Natural levee
- Paleoterrace
- Plain
- Ridge
- Slump
- Swale
- Terrace
- No filter
- Limestone, unspecified
- Mudstone
- Porcellanite
- Sandstone and siltstone
- Sandstone, calcareous
- Sandstone, unspecified
- Shale and siltstone
- Shale, unspecified
- Siltstone, unspecified
- No filter
- Alluvium
- Colluvium
- Eolian sands
- Outwash
- Residuum
- Slope alluvium
Soil surface texture
- No filter
- Clay
- Clay loam
- Fine sand
- Fine sandy loam
- Loam
- Loamy fine sand
- Loamy sand
- Silty clay
- Silty clay loam
- Silt loam
- Sandy loam
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Ecological site keys
The Ecosystem Dynamics Interpretive Tool is an information system framework developed by the USDA-ARS Jornada Experimental Range, USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service, and New Mexico State University.
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