Soil Survey of Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve, Idaho

United States Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources Conservation Service,and United States Department of the Interior, National Park Service. 2010. Soil Survey of Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve, Idaho. NPS TIC # 131/100236

This soil survey is a publication of the National Cooperative Soil Survey,a joint effort of the United States Department of Agriculture and other Federal agencies, State agencies including the Agricultural Experiment Stations, and local agencies. The Natural Resources Conservation Service (formerly the Soil Conservation Service) has leadership for the Federal part of the National Cooperative Soil Survey. This survey was made cooperatively by the Natural Resources Conservation Service and National Park Service and the Bureau of Land Management; University of Idaho, College of Agriculture; and Idaho Soil Conservation Commission. The soil survey of Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve has had several administrative boundary changes since 1924. Until 2000, the survey area was known as Craters of the Moon Monument and consisted of approximately 53,000 acres. This original area was mapped by the Natural Resources Conservation Service in 1998. In 2000, the survey area was expanded to include approximately 701,000 acres that had been mapped by the Soil Conservation Service (now known as the Natural Resources Conservation Service) prior to the mapping in 1998 and the name of the survey area was changed to Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve. The information on the soil properties and interpretations were reviewed and revised to reflect present soil survey standards. The soil names and descriptions for this survey were approved in 2006.This survey was made in conjunction with the National Park Service inventoryand monitoring program to provide information about the soils and miscellaneous areas in the survey area and is intended to serve as the official source document for soils of Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve, Idaho.

Type

Published Report

Authors

United States Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources Conservation Service,and United States Department of the Interior, National Park Service

Date of Issue

2010

Units

CRMO , PWRO , SRI , UCBN

Keywords

Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve, CRMO, Environment, Geoscientific Information, Idaho, National Cooperative Soil Survey, National Park Service, Natural Resource Inventory And Monitoring Program, NCSS, NPS, NRIM, Pacific West Region, PWRO, Soil Resources Inventory, Soil Survey, Soil Survey Geographic, Soils, SRI, SSURGO, UCBN, Upper Columbia Basin Network

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