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Hydric soils
 

Lookout Family Soils
Sandy, mixed, Fluventic Haplocryepts

Description:  Sandy brown soils formed in alluvium with paper birch and white spruce forest.

Vegetation: Paper birch and white spruce forests with grass understory

Parent Material:  Very deep alluvium in drainageways on flood plains

Drainage:  Moderately well drained

Slope:  Nearly level linear and concave slopes

Flooding:  Frequent flooding hazard

Landscape of the Lookout soils     Lookout soil profile
 

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