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MLRA Office 12 - Northeast Area Soils

The Major Land Resource Area (MLRA) Office 12 in Amherst, Massachusetts is one of several regional MLRA offices serving the National Cooperative Soil Survey in the United States and its trust territories. The MLRA is a physiographic region that is similar in climate, topography, water resources, land use and pattern of soils. MLRA Office 12 provides regional coordination, quality assurance and assistance to state and project soil survey offices located in Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, New York, Rhode Island, Vermont, and parts of New Jersey, Ohio, and Pennsylvania.

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