LOCATION WAGER                   CA

Established Series
CES/JBB
09/2021

WAGER SERIES

The Wager series consists of very deep, very poorly drained soils formed in organic material over alluvium derived from granitic rocks. The Wager soils are on flood plains and flood-plain steps of the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Slopes range from 2 to 8 percent. The mean annual precipitation is about 1000 mm and the mean annual air temperature is about 5 degrees C.

TAXONOMIC CLASS: Sandy or sandy-skeletal, isotic, euic, frigid Terric Haplosaprists

TYPICAL PEDON: Wager mucky peat on a west-facing (295 degree), 7 percent slope under a cover of shooting star, juncus, bulrush, Sierra willow, and Lemmon's willow at an elevation of 2135 meters. (Colors are for dry soils unless otherwise noted. When described on August 9, 2017 the soil was moist throughout.)

Oe--0 to 18 cm; brown (7.5YR 4/2) mucky peat, very dark brown (10YR 2/2) moist; about 60 percent fiber, 20 percent rubbed; massive; nonsticky, nonplastic; many very fine, fine, and medium roots throughout; many very fine and common fine and medium irregular pores; moderately acid (pH 5.6); clear smooth boundary. (0 to 20 cm thick) Lab sample # 17N04656

Oa--18 to 46 cm; dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) muck, 20 percent black (10YR 2/1) and 80 percent very dark brown (10YR 2/2) moist; about 15 percent fiber, 5 percent rubbed; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly sticky, nonplastic; common very fine and fine roots throughout; many very fine and common fine irregular pores; very strongly acid (pH 5.0); abrupt smooth boundary. (0 to 60 cm thick) Lab sample # 17N04657

Cg1--46 to 95 cm; gray (2.5Y 6/1) loamy coarse sand, dark greenish gray (10Y 3/1) moist; 78 percent sand; 16 percent silt; 6 percent clay; massive; moderately hard, firm, slightly sticky, nonplastic; few very fine roots throughout; common very fine irregular pores; NaF pH 8.6; moderately acid (pH 5.7); abrupt smooth boundary. (5 to 60 cm thick) Lab sample # 17N04658

Cg2--95 to 178 cm; light gray (2.5Y 7/1) coarse sand, gray (2.5Y 5/1) moist; 91 percent sand; 8 percent silt; 1 percent clay; single grain; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; common very fine, fine, and medium interstitial pores; reduced matrix; 2 percent subrounded indurated granite fine gravel; NaF pH 9.1; moderately acid (pH 6.0). (5 to 85 cm thick) Lab sample # 17N04659

TYPE LOCATION: Tulare County, California, approximately 1.5 km northeast of Dorst Campground; USGS 7.5 minute topographic quadrangle: Muir Grove, California; WGS84 36.639922 latitude and -118.801215 longitude; UTM zone 11 4056440 meters N 338975 meters E WGS84.

RANGE IN CHARACTERISTICS:
Soil temperature: The mean annual soil temperature at 50 cm is 0 to 8 degrees C and the difference between mean summer and mean winter soil temperature is greater than 6 degrees C. The soils have a frigid temperature regime.

Soil moisture: The soil is saturated in some part throughout the year, with a seasonal high water table dropping below 50 cm in late summer and fall. The soils have an aquic soil moisture regime.

Diagnostic Feature(s):

Aquic conditions: present within 10 cm

Organic matter: 20 to 75 percent in the organic horizons

Base saturation: less than 50 percent (by ammonium acetate)

Depth to redoximorphic features: 50 to 100 cm to reduced matrix

Particle size control section weighted average:
Rock fragments: 0 to 10 percent gravel
Clay content: 1 to 8 percent
NaF pH: 8.0 to 11

Oe horizon(s)
Hue: 7.5YR, 10YR
Value: 3 or 4 dry, 2 moist
Chroma: 1 or 2, dry or moist
Texture: mucky peat
Rock fragments: 0 to 20 percent gravel
Reaction: moderately to very strongly acid

Oa horizon(s)
Hue: 7.5YR, 10YR
Value: 3 to 6 dry, 2 moist
Chroma: 1 or 2, dry or moist
Texture: muck
Rock fragments: 0 to 20 percent gravel
Reaction: moderately to very strongly acid

Cg1 horizon
Hue: 10YR, 2.5Y
Value: 4 to 6 dry, 3 or 4 moist
Chroma: 1 or 2, dry or moist
Texture: coarse sand, loamy coarse sand, loamy sand
Clay content: 1 to 8 percent
Rock fragments: 0 to 5 percent gravel
Reaction: strongly acid to moderately acid

Cg2 horizon
Hue: 10YR, 2.5Y
Value: 4 to 7 dry, 3 to 5 moist
Chroma: 1 or 2, dry or moist
Texture: coarse sand, loamy coarse sand, loamy sand
Clay content: 1 to 8 percent
Rock fragments: 0 to 60 percent gravel
Reaction: strongly acid to moderately acid
Redoximorphic Features:
Reduced matrix

COMPETING SERIES: There are no other series in this family at this time.

GEOGRAPHIC SETTING: The Wager soils are on flood plains and flood-plain steps. Slopes range from 2 to 8 percent. These soils formed in organic material over alluvium derived from granite and granodiorite. Elevation is 1950 to 3135 meters. The climate is Mediterranean with warm, dry summers and cool, moist winters. The mean annual precipitation is 725 to 1515 mm and the mean annual air temperature is 3 to 7 degrees C. The frost-free season is 75 to 130 days.

GEOGRAPHICALLY ASSOCIATED SOILS: These are the Funston and Pineridge soils. The Funston soils are poorly or very poorly drained soils on flood plains and flood-plain steps, have an ochric epipedon, and have greater than 35 percent rock fragments in the particle size control section. The Pineridge soils are somewhat poorly or poorly drained soils on flood plain steps and have an umbric epipedon.

DRAINAGE AND PERMEABILITY: Very poorly drained, high to very high saturated hydraulic conductivity, frequent flooding for brief to long (2 to 30 days) duration from May to July, frequent to occasional ponding for brief to long duration (2 to 30 days) from May to July. Seasonal high water table at 0 to 10 cm.

USE AND VEGETATION: This soil is used for recreation, wildlife habitat, and watershed. Vegetation is bulrush, juncus, carex, horsetail, shooting star, Sierra willow, Lemmon's willow, sedges, grasses, and wild onion.

DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT: Sierra Nevada Mountains of California; MLRA 22A. These soils are not extensive.

SOIL SURVEY REGIONAL OFFICE (SSRO) RESPONSIBLE: Davis, California

SERIES PROPOSED: Tulare County, California in Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks. Name is coined.

REMARKS:
Particle Size Control Section for this pedon: 46 to 76 cm
Diagnostic horizons and features recognized in this pedon are:
Hemic Soil Materials 0 to 18 cm
Aquic Conditions 0 to 178 cm
Sapric Soil Materials 18 to 46 cm
Reduced Matrix 95 to 178 cm

ADDITIONAL DATA:
Pedon information for this type location only:
Pedon Type: OSD pedon
Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site Lab Pedon #: 17N0931
NASIS User Pedon ID: S2017CA107002

Soil classified using the 12th Edition of the Keys to Soil Taxonomy.

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National Cooperative Soil Survey
U.S.A.