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Areas of bedrock escarpment
Soil Survey of Lincoln County, West Virginia
Use and Management
Uses: Most areas of this Vandalia soil are used as woodland, pasture, or hayland.
Cropland
Suitability: Unsuited
Management considerations:
Erosion is a severe hazard in unprotected areas.
A system of conservation tillage, contour farming, winter cover crops, and
crop residue management help to control erosion and to maintain fertility
and tilth.
Pasture and Hayland
Suitability: Unsuited to hay; suited to pasture
Management considerations:
Erosion is a severe hazard in unprotected areas.
Establishing and maintaining a healthy cover of sod and preventing overgrazing
during wet periods are management concerns.
Proper stocking rates, a planned grazing system, and deferred grazing during
wet periods help to keep the pasture in good condition.
Woodland
Potential productivity: Moderately high
Management considerations:
Erosion is a hazard on logging roads and skid trails.
Equipment use is restricted during wet periods when the soil is soft and
slippery.
Building logging roads and skid trails on the contour helps to control erosion.
Cable yarding systems are generally safer than other logging methods and
result in less surface disturbance.
Community Development
Suitability: Poorly suited
Management considerations:
Erosion on construction sites, the high shrink-swell potential, and the hazard of
slippage are management concerns.
Because the soil is soft when wet, road pavement is subject to cracking and
buckling under heavy loads.
Maintaining a plant cover on construction sites, establishing a plant cover in
unprotected areas, and providing for the proper disposal of surface runoff help to
control erosion and sedimentation.
Properly designing and strengthening footings and foundations can help to prevent
the structural damage caused by shrinking and swelling.
Keeping surface water and subsurface water away from building sites and installing
properly constructed retaining walls, where feasible, help to prevent the structural
damage caused by slippage.
Installing surface drainage ditches and cross culverts for surface water removal
and providing suitable subgrade material help to prevent the road damage caused
by low strength and by shrinking and swelling.
Interpretive Groups
Land capability classification: 6e
Woodland ordination symbol: 4R
Prime farmland: No
Hydric soil: No
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