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Soil Change Guide - Procedures for Soil Survey and Resource Inventory
This Guide is designed for soil survey, vegetation, and ecological site or
unit inventory work in order to help soil scientists and other inventory
specialists collect interpretable data about soil change within the human time
scale. This Guide describes a sampling system to measure dynamic soil properties
for all major land uses (except urban lands where the land and soil have been
significantly reshaped). The Guide includes instructions for project planning,
field execution, and data analysis and storage. Procedures for gathering general
management history on croplands and vegetation data on other lands are included
to verify and validate the management regime or plant community where dynamic
soil property data are collected. Vegetation data are also collected to provide
context for interpreting dynamic soil properties and contribute to the
interpretation of soil-plant-hydrologic interactions.
Proper citation for this document is:
Tugel, Arlene J., Skye A. Wills, and Jeffrey E. Herrick. 2008. Soil Change
Guide: Procedures for Soil Survey and Resource Inventory, Version 1.1. USDA,
Natural Resources Conservation Service, National Soil Survey Center, Lincoln,
NE.
PDF files require
Acrobat
Reader; DOC files require
Microsoft
Word; and XLS files
require
Microsoft
Excel.
Table of Contents
Soil Change Guide (includes text only; see below for worksheets, forms, and
Excel applications)
Planning Documents (from Appendix 1)
Sampling Requirements Tools (from Appendices 2 and 3)
Field Forms (from Appendix 3)
Data Entry Sheets (Interim Storage) (from Appendix 3)
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