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Soil Survey of Lincoln County, West Virginia
Proper stocking rates, a planned grazing system, and deferred grazing during wet
periods help to keep the pasture in good condition.
Access to streams by livestock should be limited to protected crossings.
Woodland
Potential productivity: Moderately high
Management considerations:
Plant competition is severe if openings are made in the canopy.
Applying selective cutting during harvest helps to ensure that woodland consists of
the preferred species.
Community Development
Suitability: Suited
Management considerations:
Shallow excavations can cave in because some cutbanks are not stable.
Low strength is a management concern on sites for local roads and streets.
The trench walls of shallow excavations should be reinforced.
Providing suitable subgrade material helps to prevent the road damage caused by
low strength.
Interpretive Groups
Land capability classification: 2e
Woodland ordination symbol: 4A
Prime farmland: Yes
Hydric soil: No
KfB—Kaymine and Fiveblock soils, 0 to 8 percent slopes,
extremely stony
Setting
Landscape position: On benches; in areas formerly surface-mined for coal
Composition
Kaymine, Fiveblock, and similar soils: 85 percent
Dissimilar inclusions: 15 percent
Typical Profile
Kaymine
Surface layer:
0 to 3 inches—grayish brown channery loam
Substratum:
3 to 23 inches—gray, mottled very channery silt loam
23 to 41 inches—gray, mottled extremely channery loam
41 to 65 inches—gray, mottled extremely channery loam
Fiveblock
Surface layer:
0 to 4 inches—yellowish brown channery loam
Substratum:
4 to 25 inches—yellowish brown very channery sandy loam
25 to 50 inches—yellowish brown extremely flaggy sandy loam
50 to 65 inches—yellowish brown very flaggy sandy loam
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