Kinross soils are on outwash plains, lake plains, stream terraces, kame, disintegration and ground moraines. Slope gradients range from 0 to 2 percent. Dawson soils are shallow organic soils overlying sands. Poorly drained and very poorly drained. May. The soil is saturated for a period of 90 to 120 days when the soil temperature is above 5 degrees C. Runoff is slow or very slow.
Permeability is rapid.
Most of this soil is in woodland or brush. Black spruce, tamarack, northern whitecedar, balsam fir, red maple, and quaking aspen are the principal tree species. Ground cover includes water tolerant grasses and sedges, leatherleaf, sphagnum, and bog rosemary. Northern part of the Lower Peninsula and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and Wisconsin. The series is of small extent.