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Soils

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. 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.

Example of a soil profile   Soil Surveys - 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. Access the Web Soil Survey, the single authoritative source of soil survey information.

 

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 National 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.
  • Rocky Mountain Soil Survey Region 4 (SSR 4) Web Site. Regional Major Land Resource Area office located in Bozeman, Montana, provides regional coordination, quality assurance, technical guidance and support, and technology transfer to state and project soil survey offices in parts of Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, and Wyoming.
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The electronic Field Office Technical Guide (eFOTG) is the primary scientific reference used by NRCS in conservation activities.