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Soil Survey

The Montana Soils Team is part of the National Cooperative Soil Survey, an effort of Federal and State agencies, universities, and professional societies to deliver scientifically based soil information. This site hosts two staffs: the state soil survey staff provides soil survey products and technical assistance to local agency and conservation district field offices as well as landowners in the state of Montana. The Northern Rocky Mountain Major Land Resource Area Office Region 4 (MO-4) provides quality assurance and technical guidance to a five-state area.

Example of a soil profile Montana Soils Program
The Montana Soils Program provides quality soil survey information necessary for understanding, managing, conserving, and sustaining the nation's limited soil resources.

Major Land Resource Area Office Region 4 Northern Rocky Mountain Major Land Resource Area Office Region 4 (MO-4)
MO-4 provides assistance to soil survey project offices located in parts of Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, and Wyoming.

The Natural Resources Conservation Service provides leadership in a partnership effort to help people conserve, maintain, and improve our natural resources and environment.


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NRCS Soils Web site. The National Cooperative Soil Survey is a partnership, led by the NRCS, of Federal land management agencies, state agricultural experiment stations, and state and local units of government that provide soil survey information necessary for understanding, managing, conserving, and sustaining the nation's limited soil resources.

The electronic Field Office Technical Guide (eFOTG) is the primary scientific reference used by NRCS in conservation activities.

Last Modified: 12/03/2008