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Conservation Service
Ecological site F094DY015WI
Wet Loamy-Mantled Depressions
Accessed: 08/17/2024
General information
Provisional. A provisional ecological site description has undergone quality control and quality assurance review. It contains a working state and transition model and enough information to identify the ecological site.
![Location map](/images/maps/F094DY015WI.png)
Figure 1. Mapped extent
Areas shown in blue indicate the maximum mapped extent of this ecological site. Other ecological sites likely occur within the highlighted areas. It is also possible for this ecological site to occur outside of highlighted areas if detailed soil survey has not been completed or recently updated.
MLRA notes
Major Land Resource Area (MLRA): 094D–Northern Highland Sandy Pitted Outwash
The Wet Loamy-Mantled Depressions ecological site occupies about 10,000 acres in MLRA 94D.
Classification relationships
The wetland forest Habitat Type developed by Kotar and Burger (2009) for sites similar to this site is AbFnThAs (Abies-Fraxinus-Thuja/Arisaema. However, this ecological site is much more variable in species composition than the Habitat Type would indicate, however Habitat Types apply to the forested condition and this site has non-forested states and phases as well as forested ones.
Ecological site concept
ATTENTION: This ecological site meets the NESH 2014 requirements for PROVISIONAL. A provisional ecological site is established after broad ecological site concepts are identified and an initial state-and-transition model is drafted. Following quality control and quality assurance reviews of the ecological site concepts, an identification number and name for the provisional ecological site are entered into ESIS. A provisional ecological site may include literature reviews, land use history information, some soils data, legacy data, ocular estimates for canopy and/or species composition by weight, and even some line-point intercept information. A provisional ecological site does not meet the NESH 2014 standards for an Approved ESD, but does provide the conceptual framework of soil-site correlation for the development of the ESD. For more information about this ecological site, please contact your local NRCS office.
The Wet Loamy-Mantled Depression ecological site has poorly drained soils that have a brief periods of ponding and a thin muck surface layer. These sites often occur along the margins of large peatlands or in closed depressions in uplands. These are wetland sites with plant communities contain both obligate and facultative hydrophytes.
Associated sites
F094DY014WI |
Wet Loamy-Mantled Drainageways Wet Loamy-Mantled Depressions are often adjacent to and hydrologically connected to Wet Loamy-Mantled Drainageways. |
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Table 1. Dominant plant species
Tree |
(1) Fraxinus nigra |
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Shrub |
(1) Alnus incana |
Herbaceous |
(1) Impatiens capensis |
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