Reaction - Slightly alkaline or moderately alkaline. Extremely channery loam, extremely channery clay loam, or very channery clay loam. There are the Atlow , Checkett , Cottle , Fortyday , Gabbvally , Hooplite , Nevo , Olac , Old Camp , Phliss , Rowel , Soughe , Stewval , and Thike series. None of these soils, except the Phliss series, have argillic horizons dominated by channers and flagstones. Phliss soils have 1 to 5 percent calcium carbonate equivalent in the argillic horizon and are effervescent in all subhorizons of the argillic horizon.
Boomstick soils are on mountains.
They formed in residuum and colluvium derived from metamorphic rocks. Slopes are 15 to 75 percent. Elevations are 5,000 to 7,000 feet. The climate is semiarid with cool, moist winters and warm, dry summers. The mean annual precipitation is 8 to 10 inches, the mean annual temperature is 48 to 52 degrees F., and the frost-free period is 100 to 130 days.