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NRCS
MO–15 News
The Coastal Plainer is our newsletter. It is
now published twice a year and includes articles of interest to NRCS employees
and participants in the National Cooperative Soil Survey.
A new flier promoting Technical Soil Services is
available. Technical soil services are the presentation and application of soil
survey information to users. Soil scientists help users to understand the soil
survey, to apply soil information to specific needs, and to integrate soil
survey information with other resources and technology. Technical soil services
include the derivation and application of soil information to meet USDA and NRCS
policy and program needs. Technical soil services are cooperative efforts of the
National Cooperative Soil Survey (NCSS).
The MO–15 business plan for fiscal
year 2008 is now available online.
The
Web Soil
Survey provides public access to
official soil data across the country. In the MO–15 states, spatial and/or
tabular data are available for 67 survey areas in Alabama, 6 survey areas in the
Caribbean, 68 survey areas in Florida, 95 survey areas in Georgia, 63 survey
areas in Louisiana, 82 survey areas in Mississippi, and 92 survey areas in
Tennessee. The Web Soil Survey also includes links to complete text and finished
maps from published surveys for the following survey areas in the MO–15 states.
Alabama: Baldwin County, Barbour County, Butler County, Calhoun
County, Chambers County, Cherokee County, Choctaw County, Clarke
County, Cleburn County, Colbert County, Conecuh County, Covington County, Crenshaw County, Cullman County, Dale County, De Kalb County, Elmore
County, Fayette County, Franklin County, Greene County, Hale County, Houston
County, Jackson County, Jefferson County, Lauderdale County, Lawrence County, Lee County, Limestone County, Macon County, Madison
County, Marengo County,
Marshall County, Monroe County, Montgomery County, Morgan County, Perry County, Pickens County, Russell County,
St. Clair County, Shelby County, Sumter County, Tallapoosa County, Walker
County, and Wilcox County.
Caribbean Area: Arecibo Area of Northern Puerto Rico, Caribbean
National Forest of Puerto Rico, Humacao
Area of Puerto Rico, Lajas Valley Area of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez Area of Western
Puerto Rico, Ponce Area of Southern Puerto Rico, San Juan Area of Puerto Rico, and The Virgin Islands of the United
States.
Florida: Big Cypress Indian Reservation, Bradford County, Calhoun County,
Charlotte County, Dade County, Dixie County, Escambia County,
Gadsden County, Glades County, Gulf County,
Hamilton County,
Hendry County, Hernando County, Holmes County, Jefferson County, Lake County, Liberty County,
Nassau County, Ocala National Forest Area, Okeechobee County, Orange County,
Okaloosa County, Pinellas County, Putnam County Area, St. Johns County, Santa
Rosa County, Suwannee County, Taylor County, Wakulla County, and Walton County.
Georgia: Atkinson, Bacon, and Coffee Counties; Baker and
Mitchell Counties; Bleckley, Dodge, and Telfair Counties; Burke County; Butts County;
Catoosa County; Chattahoochee and Marion Counties; Chattooga, Floyd, and Polk Counties; Cherokee, Gilmer, and Pickens Counties; Clay and
Quitman Counties; Clayton, Fayette, and Henry Counties; Decatur County; Emanuel County; Forsyth
County; Fulton County; Grady County; Lamar, Pike, and Upson Counties; Lincoln and Wilkes Counties; Murray and
Whitfield Counties; Newton and Rockdale Counties; Pulaski and Wilcox Counties;
Randolph County; Walton County; and Worth County.
Louisiana: Arcadia Parish, Avoyelles Parish, Bienville Parish,
Calcasieu Parish, Caldwell
Parish, Cameron Parish, Catahoula Parish, Evangeline Parish, Grant Parish, Iberia Parish,
Iberville Parish, Jefferson Davis Parish, Lafourche Parish, Madison Parish,
Morehouse Parish, Nachitoches Parish, Ouachita Parish, Rapides Parish, Richland
Parish, St.
Landry Parish, St. Martin Parish, St. Mary Parish, St. Tammany Parish, Tensas Parish, Terrebonne
Parish, and West Carroll Parish.
Mississippi: Bolivar County, Choctaw County, Copiah County, De Soto County, Hinds County, Jackson County,
Lamar County, Leflore County, Lincoln County, Madison County, Marion County, Newton County, Oktibbeha County,
Rankin County, Stone County, and Warren County.
A state soil is represented by a soil series
that has special significance to a particular state. Each state in the
United States has selected a state soil, 15 of which have been
legislatively established. These "Official
State Soils" share the same level of distinction as official state flowers and
birds. Also, representative soils
have been selected for Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands.
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