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Soil Survey of Lincoln County, West Virginia
Management considerations:
Logging should be avoided during wet periods because it can result in excessive
rutting.
Establishment of tree seedlings is poor because of the plant competition from
undesirable vegetation.
Limiting operation of logging equipment to midsummer, when the soil is dry, or
midwinter, when the soil is frozen or has adequate snow cover, minimizes the
formation of ruts and helps to control erosion.
Plant competition can be controlled by creating areas of bare soil during site
preparation or limiting the size of openings made in the canopy.
Community Development
Suitability: Poorly suited
Management considerations:
The seasonal wetness and the rare flooding in some areas limit excavation and
trafficability and may delay construction activities in the winter and spring.
Because the soil is soft when wet, road pavement is subject to cracking and
buckling under heavy loads.
Cutbanks may seep during wet periods.
Installing a drainage system around structures with basements and crawl spaces
helps to overcome the wetness.
Buildings can be constructed on well compacted fill material that raises the site a
sufficient distance above the water table.
Constructing the roads on raised fill material and installing a drainage system may
help to overcome the wetness.
Interpretive Groups
Land capability classification: 3w
Woodland ordination symbol: 6w
Prime farmland: No
Hydric soil: No
HMF—Highsplint-Matewan-Cloverlick association, very
steep, extremely stony
Setting
Landscape position: Highsplint—typically on the middle and lower side slopes of hills,
footslopes, and benches and in south-facing coves; Matewan—on convex and
linear side slopes of hills, shoulders, nose slopes, and summits of some ridges;
Cloverlick—typically in north-facing coves and on the middle and lower, northfacing
side slopes of hills and footslopes; in areas dominated by sandstone
bedrock of the Kanawha and Allegheny Formations
Composition
Highsplint, Matewan, Cloverlick, and similar soils: 91 percent
Dissimilar inclusions: 9 percent
Typical Profile
Highsplint
Organic layer:
0 to 2 inches—slightly decomposed forest litter
Surface layer:
2 to 5 inches—brown loam
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