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Welcome to the NRCS
Soils Website.
“Helping People Understand Soils”
Soils is part of the National Cooperative
Soil Survey, an effort of Federal and State agencies,
universities, and professional societies to deliver
science-based soil information.
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The Soil Extent Mapping (SEM) Tool has been
upgraded to included acreage estimates for all
series components available from a June 2007
snapshot of the Soil Data Mart. This upgrade
also provides new wildcard soil series query,
directed taxonomic query, and wildcard taxonomic
query capabilities. The new taxonomic query
acreage reports provide state level summaries. |
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MLRA Explorer —
A new web-based mapping tool that provides the
user with the ability to search by Major Land
Resource Areas (MLRA) and Land Resource Areas (LRR)
using a variety of geographic and attribute
questions that create customized maps of
narrative descriptions and photos. It also
provides the user with the ability to print
and/or export specific subsets of the USDA
Agriculture Handbook 296. |
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Web Soil Survey is now better than ever!
Originally launched in August 2005, the improved
and enhanced version is now available online.
Based on user comments,
new features and enhancements have been
developed to make the program more responsive to
its growing customer base. Some new features
include a location marker, floating map unit
descriptions, transparency layers, a topographic
map layer, and the ability to create custom soil
resource reports. |
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A website has been developed to assist National
Cooperative Soil Survey (NCSS) soil scientists and
their supervisors in identifying training
opportunities and resources. Links are provided
for schedules, course descriptions, job aids to
supplement training, and other helpful topics.
GIS-related training includes: (1) GIS
fundamentals for all soil scientists; (2) a
recommended sequence of GIS-related training,
especially for newly hired soil scientists; and
(3) training for employees of all soil
survey-related offices.
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The Natural Resources Conservation Service
provides leadership in a partnership effort to help people
conserve, maintain, and improve our natural resources and
environment.
Last Modified: 04/11/2008
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