Natural Resources
Conservation Service
ecological site group 047XESG03
Clay Uplands
Accessed: 07/14/2026
Ecological site group description
Key Characteristics
None specified
Provisional. A provisional ecological site description has undergone quality control and quality assurance review. It contains a working state and transition model and enough information to identify the ecological site.
Physiography
This ESG is located on hillslopes, fan remnants, and mountain slopes.
Vegetation dynamics
The modal ecological site for this ESG is R0476XA432UT Mountain Loam (oak).
Major Land Resource Area
MLRA 047X
Wasatch and Uinta Mountains
Subclasses
- F047XA508UT–High Mountain Loam (quaking aspen)
- F047XA512UT–High Mountain Loam (Douglas-fir)
- F047XA532UT–High Mountain Stony Loam (Douglas-fir)
- F047XA533UT–High Mountain Stony Loam (mixed conifer)
- F047XA610UT–Subalpine Gravelly Loam (subalpine fir/Engelmann spruce)
- F047XB512UT–High Mountain Loam (Douglas-fir)
- R047XA008UT–Interzonal Wet Fresh Meadow (sedge)
- R047XA308UT–Upland Loam (basin big sagebrush)
- R047XA402UT–Mountain Clay (slender wheatgrass)
- R047XA406UT–Mountain Gravelly Loam (mountain big sagebrush)
- R047XA430UT–Mountain Loam (mountain big sagebrush)
- R047XA432UT–Mountain Loam (oak)
- R047XA434UT–Mountain Loam (shrub)
- R047XA456UT–Mountain Stony Loam (antelope bitterbrush)
- R047XA461UT–Mountain Stony Loam (mountain big sagebrush)
- R047XA463UT–Mountain Stony Loam (Gambel oak)
- R047XA475UT–Mountain Windswept Ridge (black sagebrush)
- R047XA504UT–High Mountain Clay (slender wheatgrass)
- R047XA510UT–High Mountain Loam (bigtooth maple)
- R047XA516UT–High Mountain Loam (mountain big sagebrush)
- R047XA517UT–High Mountain Loam (silver sagebrush)
- R047XA528UT–High Mountain Stony Clay (slender wheatgrass)
- R047XA560UT–High Mountain Gravelly Loam (mountain big sagebrush)
- R047XB004UT–Semi-wet Fresh Meadow
- R047XB016UT–Interzonal Loamy Bottom (basin wildrye)
- R047XB220UT–Semidesert Loam (basin big sagebrush)
- R047XB301UT–Upland Clay (black sagebrush)
- R047XB303UT–Upland Clay (pinyon/Utah juniper)
- R047XB308UT–Upland Loam (mountain big sagebrush/Indian ricegrass)
- R047XB332UT–Upland Stony Loam (black sagebrush)
- R047XB333UT–Upland Stony Loam (pinyon/Utah juniper)
- R047XB336UT–Upland Stony Loam (mountain big sagebrush)
- R047XB420UT–Mountain Loam (shrub)
- R047XB426UT–Mountain Loam (black sagebrush)
- R047XB428UT–Mountain Loam (low sagebrush)
- R047XB430UT–Mountain Loam (mountain big sagebrush)
- R047XB432UT–Mountain Loam (oak)
- R047XB433UT–Mountain Loam (ponderosa pine)
- R047XB462UT–Mountain Stony Loam (mountain big sagebrush)
- R047XB463UT–Mountain Stony Loam (oak)
- R047XB508UT–High Mountain Loam (aspen)
- R047XB516UT–High Mountain Loam (mountain big sagebrush)
- R047XB519UT–High Mountain Loam (mixed conifer)
- R047XC320UT–Upland Shallow Loam (black sagebrush)
- R047XC404UT–Mountain Clay (silver sagebrush)
- R047XC430UT–Mountain Loam (mountain big sagebrush)
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Stage
Provisional
Contributors
Curtis Talbot
Travis Nauman
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