Elevations are 4,000 to 6,500. The climate is cool, semiarid with warm, dry summers and cool, moist winters. These are the Beoska , Midas , Orovada , and Theodor soils. Beoska soils have a fine-loamy argillic horizon. Midas soils lack an argillic horizon.
Orovada soils lack an argillic horizon and have a coarse-loamy control section.
Theodor soils have an aridic moisture regime. The vegetation is mainly Wyoming big sagebrush, spiny hopsage, Thurber needlegrass, and bottlebrush squirreltail. Snapp soils are of moderate extent. The zone from about 9 to 21 inches. The zone from about 5 to 21 inches.