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***MLRA REGION 10 Newsletter***

***March/April 2001***

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**NRCS Employee Receives National Achievement Award**

William (Bill) E. Dollarhide, Nevada NRCS State soil scientist and major
land resource area office leader was recently awarded the 2000 National
Cooperative Soil Survey (NCSS) Soil Scientist Achievement Award annual
Soil Science Society of America Annual Meeting, in Minneapolis,
Minnesota. This is the highest award that can be awarded a soil
scientist involved in the production phase of the NCSS. The award
recognizes exceptional achievement that has been sustained by an
individual over a period of several years. Thirty-five year NRCS
careerist, Bill Dollarhide was honored for his cumulative impact and
exceptional management of all phases of the soil survey program.

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**NRCS Provides Assistance to Nigeria**

A team of experts from USDA, including Michael Sucik, representing NRCS
Science and Technology, traveled to Nigeria recently to evaluate
agriculture and land use. In conjunction with Nigerian officials, they
explored ways in which Nigeria can develop an agriculture program that
ensures an adequate and sustainable food supply and sustainability
through improved land use practices.

The team visited technological facilities and areas of the country that
face adverse conditions, such as canyons caused by accelerated gully
erosion and failed engineering structures.

The findings of the trip included the need for an updated soil survey of
Nigeria. High resolution aerial photography technology would benefit the
updated survey, improving upon the current 1:250,000 aerial photographic
imagery scale. Other issues to be addressed include issues of soil
fertility testing, soil conservation and soil erosion, and providing
technical training to Nigerian scientists.

Three NRCS soil scientists are scheduled to return in February 2001 to
meet with officials and farmers and evaluate soil survey information.

For more information, contact:

Michael Sucik

NRCS- Iowa

\(515\) 284-4260

mike.sucik@ia.usda.gov

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**Fracture Developed in Soils Formed in Glacial Till Material**

The Ohio Academy of Science recently published a collection of papers
dealing with fractures in glacial till materials in a special edition of
the Ohio Journal of Science. The papers, relating to soil survey work,
were produced by the NRCS in Ohio; the Ohio Department of Natural
Resources, Division of Soil and Water Conservation; and The Ohio State
University. There has been television interest in the subject and the
Columbus Dispatch is planning to carry stories about the soil survey
work.

Your contact is Perdita Belk, NRCS Public Affairs

Specialist, at 803-765-5402.

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**Soil Sampling in Great Smoky Mountains National Park**

Through a Memorandum of Understanding between the U.S. Department of the
Interior and the agency. NRCS in Tennessee will complete soil sampling
in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Darwin Newton, NRCS
Assistant State Conservationist for Soil Resources noted that, \"Because
of our close working relationship with the U. S. Department of the
Interior, we were able to carry out this important project to provide an
up-to-date soil survey and database for interpretative uses in the
park.\"

Your contact is Darwin Newton, NRCS Assistant State

Conservationist, at 615/277-2556.

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**National Soil Phosphorus Benchmark Project (NSPBP)**

NRCS, USDA\'s Agricultural Research Service, and Cooperative State
Research, Education, and Extension Service, the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency, a number of universities, and other researchers have
formed the NSPBP in order to coordinate efforts and seek solutions to
phosphorus runoff problems. The objectives of the project include
determining threshold soil phosphorus levels for benchmark soils,
developing a phosphorus index to identify and rank site vulnerability to
phosphorus loss at field and watershed scales that is easily implemented
over the range of landscape settings of the U.S., and integrating the
phosphorus threshold and index information into a comprehensive nutrient
management planning software package. Field sites located on manured
benchmark soils will be used to assess these runoff losses. Laboratory
studies of suitable methods for characterizing these phosphorus losses
and ways of relating this research to soil surveys, as well as other
data are underway at the NRCS National Soil Survey Center. Information
from these studies will be used to support field needs in support of
comprehensive nutrient management planning.

Your contacts are Charles Lander, NRCS Ecological Sciences Division, at
202-690-0249 or \<charles.lander@usda.gov\>;

Dewayne Mays, NRCS National Soil Survey Center, at 402-437-5138 or
\<Dewayne.Mays@usda.gov\>; and

Jerry Lemunyon, NRCS South Central Region, at 817-509-321 or
\<jlemunyo@ftw.nrcs.usda.gov\>.

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**Alaskan Adventures**

**By Tim Miland, NRCS Soil Scientist, Eau Claire, WI**

This summer I was fortunate enough to be selected for a soil survey
detail in Anchorage, Alaska. The detail lasted from June 5th to
September 22nd . The trip started by trying to persuade someone to share
the driving duties with me. I decided this may be my one and only chance
to drive to Alaska and I wasn\'t about to miss out on it. After little
persuading, Roger Dahl (NRCS Soil Scientist Eau Claire) offered to take
the trip. We planned the trip to take 5 1/2 days to cover the 3500 miles
to Alaska.

Highlights on the trip up included the Great (and very long) Plains,
Edmonton, Alberta Canada, entertainment and the start of the Alaskan
Highway in Dawson Creek, BC, Liard River Hotsprings (very nice stop
after 3 days of driving), Whitehorse, YK (home of the \$12 twelve pack),
Sign Post Forest at Watson Lake, YK (we left our mark), Matanustka
Glacier, Alaska (yes you can walk on a glacier), and finally Anchorage
Jewel of the north). The trip went very smoothly with hardly a problem.

My first thought of Alaska was wow what beautiful and huge place. We saw
snow on the mountains and no leaves on the trees and this was June! The
next surprise was the length of daylight. I found myself staring at the
sun at 10:00 PM at night and finding it well above the horizon by 5:00
am. After a couple good nights of sleep I was ready for work.

At my first day of work I was informed that I would need to take a
little training. I participated in aviation safety, gun and my favorite,
bear safety training. I learned how not to get mauled by a bear and what
to do if I crashed in a helicopter. What a way to start my stay out. I
learned I was going to be mapping on the east hill of Anchorage and
about 3 miles into the Chugach State Forest. Part of the area was
similar to northern Wisconsin.

It was glaciated and basically consisted of 10-30 inches of ash
influence loess over till, outwash, ablation till, tidal sediments, or
alluvial deposits. The soils were primarily Spodosols with some
lnceptisols and Entisols. Surprisingly, Anchorage only gets about 15
inches of precipitation, but of course is quite cold having a cryic
temperature regime. The mapping was a combination of urban (not my
favorite) and rural. I was required to GPS and write a note at
observation points, which would be entered into a soil database. I was
accompanied by a botanist, who took vegetation data wherever I took
soils data. The soils were almost always skeletal so small pits and road
cuts were used for observing the soil properties. For 2 1/2 months I
spent my time driving city streets and hiking into a semi-urban
landscapes.

The last 1 1/2 months, I spent mapping in the Chugach Mountains. Most of
this area was in sub-alpine and alpine landscapes. It was awesome hiking
the mountains with little or no trees or brush. We mapped different
series based not only on materials, but also vegetative zones. Boreal
forest, sub-alpine and alpine series were separated based on the types
of vegetation present. Elevation and aspect were the most controlling
factors.

While in Alaska I managed to visit many beautiful places. These
including Denali National Park, Kennicot Mine (Wrangle-St. Elias
National Park), Valdez and the Alaskan Pipeline, Iditarod headquarters,
glacier/wildlife tour out of Seward (Kenai Fjords National Park), Kenai
River (very large and hard to fish), and of course Homer (I have a good
story of the halibut that got away). There are so many more places I
could mention, but there just isn\'t enough space.

For the trip back I was joined by Matt Otto a former NRCS soil scientist
from Richland Center. We decided to take a different route back
traveling parallel to the Alaskan coastline and then cutting east
through Jasper and Banff, BC. From there we headed through Calgary, AB
and south to Glacier National Park Montana. Finally, we made the long
trip east through Montana, North Dakota, Minnesota, and Wisconsin. The
trip covered 6 1/2 days and 3800 miles. All together I put 13,000 miles
on my truck in 4 months.

It\'s hard to describe the trip without going into hours of details.
There are so many things I saw and experienced that I don\'t know if I
could remember them all. Alaska is the \'Last Frontier\' of the United
States. There is so much space it\'s hard to comprehend. A typical
weekend could involve 400 to 600 miles of driving. I worked with many
interesting people and made a bunch of new friends. If anyone is
interested in hearing more about Alaska or have questions to ask, please
feel free to contact me.

*Article from \"The Dirt Dauber\", Issue 1, January 17, 2001*

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**The Soil Scientist**

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In the beginning, God made the heavens and earth,

He designed them for us, for He knew our worth;

All was perfect and all was okay,

Till Adam and Eve fell that day.

Since that time, it has been upon man,

To steward the earth, to work the land;

But the land got tired and needed a rest,

So man got wise and devised a test.

Alas, he found not all soil was the same,

But what can we do to figure this game;

All through the years, we've hit and missed,

So the Lord provided the soil scientist.

He came on the scene a century ago,

Mapping soils anywhere the four winds blow;

Not knowing what he'd find over the next hill,

But blazing forward always ready to drill.

He's a lone wolf but rarely lonely,

Sharpshooter in hand, his one and only;

Discovering creation one layer at a time,

Daily facing dust, sweat, boredom, and grime.

Pushing forward, at times not sure why,

Then thinking of goals, he begins to cry;

It seems as though he'll never get done,

One day at a time, he follows the sun.

But then he realizes, as he tops a knoll,

Acres are important, but not the main goal;

He follows a calling that few understand,

To discover for man the treasures of land.

Most will never see the hours of toil,

That he invests into mapping our soil;

The fruit of his labor he may never see,

Lives are being helped; his purpose and destiny.

So much is changing with computers and NASIS,

Even publication is beyond the speed of molasses;

PEDON, SSURGO, and of course digitizing,

Help to make our future more energizing.

But there lies one certainty amongst all this change,

You'll find him in field, forest, swamp, and range;

He'll be needed forever, though sometimes ignored,

Till a conservation team member needs a hole bored.

As our second century gets underway,

Of one thing for sure he is proud to say;

I've been part of a winning team,

Even Hugh Hammond Bennett would give us a gleam.

When his time on earth is finished and done,

His reflection of life's race that he ran and won;

Will likely include a request to roam,

For a visit to the soil on his way home.

\-\--Jeff Olson

Soil Scientist

NRCS

Mena, Arkansas

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**SO WHAT DOES 40 CUBIC FEET OF MUCK LOOK LIKE?**

**By Bill Frederick**

This is one question that I thought I would never need to ask let alone
answer. Sometimes we do get some-interesting requests here at the state
office and this was one.

We received a call from the folks at the National Soil Survey Laboratory
asking us for some help. Some of the soil scientists there have been
working with researchers at the Agricultural Research and Statistics
Laboratory (ARS) on the Wind Erodibility Prediction (WEP) model for use
in the Conservation Toolkit. One area that they have recognized where
the model is weak is for the organic soils. They were hoping to find
about three locations in the country where organic material could be
collected and sent to the ARS Research facility in Manhattan, Kansas.
There the samples would be dried and placed in large flat boxes in a
wind tunnel to simulate field conditions. Of course these samples would
have to be collected in areas where organic soils have been drained and
put into agriculture. Since the folks at Lincoln knew that Michigan was
rich with these areas, we were one of the three locations on their hit
list.

After some discussion between the folks at Lincoln and ARS, it was
decided that they needed two sample sites, with about 20 cubic feet of
organic matter collected within the upper 2 to 3 inches of the surface.
With the help of cooperative landowners, the samples that Will Bowman
and I obtained (with some help from GayLynn Kinter) were collected from
an area of Palms muck (Loamy, mixed, euic Terdc Haplosaprists) in Eaton
County, and an area that would best be described as Thomas muck
(Fine-loamy, mixed, calcareous, mesic Histic Humaquepts) in Sanilac
County. The researchers were hoping that we could obtain one site where
the content of mineral soil material mixed within the organic material
would be very low and deep (Palms) and one where it would be higher and
shallower to the mineral material (Thomas). As it turned out, we
fortunately did not have to ship the samples as one of the soil
scientists at ARS had some relatives in lower Michigan and he was coming
here for the Thanksgiving Holiday. He and his son brought a one ton
truck with them and left it parked at the Rose Lake Research Area where
we had left the samples. They then loaded the material on the truck
(I\'m glad we didn\'t\' have to do this.) and drove back to Manhattan
after the holiday.

So getting back to the question, what does 40 cubic feet of organic
material look like? Picture about thirty 55 (1.5 mil) gallon double
bagged plastic bags, each filled about one third of the way and weighing
from about 70 to 90 pounds each. By the way, after doing all of the
hefting of these bags I felt we were entitled to know the results of the
wind tunnel tests, so I asked the researcher Larry Hagen, to let us
know. Keep tuned to this channel for future reports.

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Science & Technology Exhibits at ASA Meeting

The NRCS Science and Technology exhibit at the American Society of
Agronomy meeting was a huge success. Several thousand products, produced
by institutes, centers, and divisions in Science and Technology, were
distributed. In addition, attendees requested over 400 products and
services provided by NRCS Science and Technology. There was high demand
for the Dominant Soil Orders and Suborders- Soil Taxonomy 1998 poster,
The Colors of Soil poster, the Soil Taxonomy CD, the STATSGO CD, as well
as other products.

For more information, contact:

Earl Lockridge

National Soil Survey Center

\(402\) 437-5863

earl.lockridge@nssc.nrcs.usda.gov

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MANUSCRIPT AND NASIS REPORTS UPDATE

**Lynn DesLauriers, SDQS**

**Region 10 MLRA Office**

The *Region 10 Map Unit Generator* and the *Region 10 General Map Unit
Generator* reports have undergone the following modifications:

-   A bug has been corrected that caused soil moisture status to be
    improperly displayed if a component had some months of the year with
    all the same depth to wet soil moisture status and other months of
    the year with no wet soil moisture status, such as below:

SOIL MOISTURE STATUS BY DEPTH (RV)

(Depths of layers are in feet)

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\| Map symbol \|Component\|Hydro-\| January \| February \| March \|
April \| May \| June \| July \| August \|September \| October \|
November \| December \|

\| and \| percent \|logic \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \|

\| component name \| \|group \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \|

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\| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \|

\|H473: \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \|

\| RUDYARD\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\--\| 55 \|D \|0.0-6.7: \|0.0-6.7: \|0.0-0.5:
\|0.0-0.5: \|0.0-0.5: \|0.0-6.7: \|0.0-6.7: \|0.0-6.7: \|0.0-6.7:
\|0.0-0.5: \|0.0-0.5: \|0.0-6.7: \|

\| \| \| \| Moist \| Moist \| Moist \| Moist \| Moist \| Moist \| Moist
\| Moist \| Moist \| Moist \| Moist \| Moist \|

\| \| \| \| \-\-- \| \-\-- \|0.5-1.0: \|0.5-1.0: \|0.5-1.0: \| \-\-- \|
\-\-- \| \-\-- \| \-\-- \|0.5-1.0: \|0.5-1.0: \| \-\-- \|

\| \| \| \| \| \| Wet \| Wet \| Wet \| \| \| \| \| Wet \| Wet \| \|

\| \| \| \| \-\-- \| \-\-- \|1.0-6.7: \|1.0-6.7: \|1.0-6.7: \| \-\-- \|
\-\-- \| \-\-- \| \-\-- \|1.0-6.7: \|1.0-6.7: \| \-\-- \|

\| \| \| \| \| \| Moist \| Moist \| Moist \| \| \| \| \| Moist \| Moist
\| \|

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\|\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\|\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\|\_\_\_\_\_\_\|\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\|\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\|\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\|\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\|\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\|\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\|\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\|\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\|\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\|\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\|\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\|\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\|

-   The MUG programs displayed the soil moisture status for the RUDYARD
    component above as:

> Wet soil moisture status: At 0.5 foot all year

It now displays it properly as:

Wet soil moisture status is highest (depth, months):

0.5 foot March April May October November

Wet soil moisture status is lowest (depth, months):

More than 6.7 feet January February June July

August September December

-   Both MUG programs allow you to enter two representative textures for
    a horizon, such as *lfs, fsl*. You can now also have the dominant
    texture first by using the *horizon texture group seq* field. To
    assure that the previously mentioned textures appear in the order
    *fsl, lfs* because *fsl* is the dominant texture in the horizon, you
    would populate the *horizon texture group seq* field with *1* for
    the *fsl* texture and *2* for the *lfs* texture. The MUG programs
    sort by this field first and by the horizon texture group rec id
    second.

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-   There has been a problem with component with phases in some of the
    NASIS reports. The problem is when a component and it's phase are
    both populated in the component name field, such as Augsburg,
    depressional, if the name is too long for the report column, it
    wraps-around leaving a blank line in the report and causing
    misalignment as below:

Chemical Properties of the Soils

(Absence of an entry indicates that data were not estimated.)

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\| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \|

Map symbol \|Component\| Depth \| Cation \|Effective\| Soil \|Calcium\|
Gypsum \| Salinity \| Sodium

and soil name \| percent \| \|exchange \| cation \|reaction \|carbon-\|
\| \| adsorp-

\| \| \|capacity \|exchange \| \| ate \| \| \| tion

\| \| \| \|capacity \| \| \| \| \| ratio

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\| \| In \|meq/100 g\|meq/100 g\| pH \| Pct \| Pct \| mmhos/cm \|

\| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \|

47: \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \|

Mcdonaldsville, \| 85 \| 0-11 \| 25-40 \| \-\-- \| 6.6-8.4 \| 0-10 \|
0-1 \| 0 \| 0

Depressional\-\-\-\-\-\-\--\| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \|

\| \| 11-41 \| 15-25 \| \-\-- \| 7.4-9.0 \| 15-40 \| 0-1 \| 0 \| 0

\| \| 41-80 \| 10-20 \| \-\-- \| 7.4-8.4 \| 5-20 \| 0-5 \| 0 \| 0

\| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \|

-   The above problem causes a lot extra editing work for our manuscript
    English editor. I am currently attempting to rectify this problem in
    all of our manuscript table reports. The solution will require that
    a phase of a component not be included with the component name, but
    be populated in the local phase data element in NASIS. This is the
    correct method for populating a phase. In the future please use the
    local phase data element for any component phase that you want to
    populate. This instruction will be included in the latest revision
    of the Manuscript Procedure Manual.

The Region 10 Manuscript Procedure Manual has recently been revised with
the following changes:

-   Includes the local phase data element as a data element to populate.

-   Includes the horizon texture group sequence number as a data element
    to populate.

-   Includes a reference to the Powerpoint presentation by John Kelley,
    SDQS, Region 14: Soil Survey Photography (Principles and
    Techniques).

The Region 10 prewritten material for manuscripts using NASIS generated
interpretations has been revised with the following:

-   A discussion of the fact that the soil survey area is now the MLRA
    and each county survey is a subset of the MLRA soil survey area.
    This also included changing some of the references to *survey area*
    to *county subset* where appropriate and the addition of Ag.
    Handbook 296 (Land Resource Regions and Major Land Resource Areas of
    the United States) to the list of references.

-   The addition of a prewritten material section that discusses NASIS
    water management interpretations for pond reservoir areas,
    embankments, dikes, and levees, and aquifer-fed excavated ponds.

The Region 10/11 Similar/Dissimilar Guide for Soil Components has been
revised to include a differentiation of all of the classes of flooding
listed in the National Soil Handbook except for very frequent.

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**WEB SITES OF INTEREST**

Current soils forms may be obtained at this web site:
<http://www.ftw.nrcs.usda.gov/nps/soi.htm>

<http://www.uwsp.edu/soils-waste/slevine/soils362/index.htm>

Soil Genesis and Morphology (Soils 362) Course at University of

Wisconsin at Stevens Point. Students are expected to get much of the

course material off this site.

<http://www.statlab.iastate.edu/soils/nssc/educ/photography/index.htm>

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**OSDs updated 1/2001- 2/2001**

[mesic]{.underline}: biggsville \... biscay \... blyburg \... brownton
\... clarion \... coriff \... darfur \... fieldon \... good thunder \...
havelock \... jeffers \... klossner \... lemond \... lowlein \...
madelia \... mannon \... marcus \... ocheyedan \... rushriver \...
swedegrov \... truman \... vore

[frigid]{.underline}: insula \... pelan \... plover \... quetico \...
waskish

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**Schedule for March/April (subject to change)**

[WEEK]{.underline} [LOCATION]{.underline} [MLRA]{.underline}
[STAFF]{.underline} [ACTIVITY]{.underline}

03/5-9/01 Fargo, ND 56 LLD Steering Committee Meeting

03/5-9/01 Virginia, MN 88/57 AGG N. St. Louis Prog. Correlation

03/12-16/01 St. Paul, MN JJJ NASIS Report Writing Training

03/19-23/01 Lawrence. KS JWM National SSS Meeting

03/19-23/01 Lawrence, KS JFH National SSS Meeting

03/19-23/01 Spooner, WI 90A JJJ Field Visit-Washburn Cnty

03/26-30/01 Rochester, MN 104/105 AGG Progressive Correlation-MNSEP

04/02-06/01 Eau Claire, WI 90B JJJ Final Correlation - Dunn County

04/23-27/01 St. Paul, MN Staff NASIS PEDON Training

04/30-05/04/01 TBD 94B LLD Landform Identification

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CONTRIBUTIONS, IDEAS, SUGGESTIONS, AND QUESTIONS ARE WELCOME

This newsletter is intended to be a forum to distribute information of a
general nature that will benefit soil scientists in soil survey project
offices. It is hoped that it will foster communications and sharing of
knowledge among those soil scientists in MLRA Region 10.

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Articles from other newsletters are often included to distribute ideas
and comments from other areas of the country; these ideas and comments
are not necessarily identical to those used in MLRA Region 10.

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The format of this newsletter is intentionally simple so that it can be
received, read, and printed by the project office having the least
sophisticated computer and printer setup.

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Thanks to those individuals who participated this month. It is your
efforts that have made this newsletter a success.

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Articles in an electronic format can be submitted to:

<rhonda.osterman@mn.usda.gov>

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Previous copies of this newsletter are available at:

<http://www.mn.nrcs.usda.gov/mo10/mo10.html>

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