Lasvar soils have a duripan at moderate depth. Piline soils are on internally drained small relict lake plains, alluvial flats and playas. These soils formed in alluvium from mixed sources. Slopes are 0 to 2 percent. Elevations of 4,800 to 5,700 feet.
Climate is cool and semiarid with warm, dry summers and cool, moist winters.
These are the McCleary soils. These soils lack vertical cracks and gilgai. May. The surface is ponded with water for a short period during the same months in most years. Livestock grazing, and wildlife habitat. Vegetation is mainly mat muhly silver sage brush, bluegrass and bottlebrush squirreltail.