Slopes range from 0 to 70 percent. Kalkaska , Grayling , and Montcalm soils are common well drained to excessively drained associates. Surface runoff is slow or very slow. Permeability is rapid. The greater proportion of this soil is forested, including tree plantations.
Some areas are idle cropland or in pasture.
Only a very small proportion is used for small grains and hay crops. The native vegetation and present natural vegetation is dominantly red pine and quaking aspen with some eastern white pine and jack pine. Ground cover consists of blueberries, wintergreen, sweet fern, and bracken fern. Northern half of lower Michigan, upper Michigan, and northern Wisconsin. The series is of large extent.