Fishtrap soils are in depressional areas on outwash terraces. Elevation is near sea level to 600 feet. Slopes are 0 to 2 percent. The soils formed in herbaceous and woody organic deposits overlying glaciofluvial deposits. Shalcar soils are in a marine climate with warm, dry summers and cool, moist winters.
Snow cover is intermittent.
Average annual precipitation is 35 to 55 inches. The frost- free season is 150 to 190 days. These are the Clipper , Edmonds , Hale , Kickerville , Laxton , Lynden , Pangborn , and Shalcar soils. None of these soils except Pangborn and Shalcar soils are Histosols. Pangborn soils are more than 51 inches deep to mineral soil.