The frost-free season ranges from 80 to 130 days. Elevation ranges from 300 to 2500 feet above mean sea level. These are the very deep Chesuncook , Monarda and Telos soils, and the shallow Monson soils. Chesuncook, Monarda and Telos soils are wetter soils in lower positions on the landscape. Monson soils are on higher knolls above the Elliottsville soils.
Permeability is moderate.
Common tree species include American beech, yellow birch, red spruce, white spruce, balsam fir, red maple and sugar maple. The series is of large extent. Franklin County Area and Part of Somerset County, Maine Soil Survey, 1992. Other features - frigid temperature regime and udic moisture regime. Source of data used in establishing the range in characteristics is composite data from the Field Appraisal of Resource Management Systems compiled by Dr. Paul R. Hepler, Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, University of Maine, Orono, Maine.