NRCS MO–15 News

The Coastal Plainer is our newsletter.  It is published twice a year and includes articles of interest to NRCS employees and participants in the National Cooperative Soil Survey.

A flier promoting Technical Soil Services (PDF; 2.8 MB) 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 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 for dozens of published surveys in the MO–15 states.

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.