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Southern Rocky Mountain Soil Survey Region
Major Land Resource Area (MLRA) Office #6 (MO6)

MO6 provides quality assurance of soil information in the Southern Rocky Mountain Region using National Cooperative Soil Survey (NCSS) standards. It provides assistance to MLRA soil survey project offices located in parts of Colorado, Idaho, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming.

MLRA Leader:  Steve Park
Senior Regional Soil Scientist:  Tom Hahn

MO6 Location:
655 Parfet Street, Room E200C
Lakewood, CO 80215
Phone: 720.544.2849
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Host State Conservationist:
Allen Green		 Map of Major Land Resource Area [MLRA] Region 6. MLRA Office 6 provides assistance to soil survey project offices located in portions of Colorado, New Mexico, Wyoming, and Utah.

Responsibility

The primary responsibility of the MLRA Office #6 is to provide quality assurance of soil information in the Southern Rocky Mountain Region using the National Cooperative Soil Survey standards.

Definition

Major Land Resource Areas/MLRAs are geographically associated land resource units, usually encompassing several thousand acres.  They are characterized by particular patterns of soils, geology, climate, water resources, and land use.  A unit may be one continuous area or several separate nearby areas.

The Southern Rocky Mountain Region, MLRA Office #6, in Lakewood, Colorado, is one of eighteen MLRA regional offices serving the United States and the Caribbean area. This office provides assistance to soil survey project offices located in portions of Colorado, Idaho, New Mexico, Wyoming, and Utah.

Additional MLRA Office 6 Information

M06 Staff

M06 Technical Guidance Documents

Instructions

Microsoft Word Document Instruction Tabulation Sheet
Microsoft Word Document MO6 Instr 381 OSD Policy, Guidelines, and Information for Completing Official Soil Series Descriptions
Microsoft Word Document MO6 Instr 381 OSD Template – English Units, Dec 2003
Microsoft Word Document MO6 Instr 381 OCS Template – Metric Units, Jan 2007
Microsoft Word Document MO6 Instr 381 Supplement – Using Geologic Formation in OCDs
Adobe Acrobat Document MO6 Instr 382 Soil Survey Field Review Procedures
Microsoft Word Document MO6 Instr 383 Manuscript Preparation Guidelines – Reissued Jan 2007
Microsoft Word Document MO6 Instr 384 SSURGO Procedures
Microsoft Word Document MO6 Instr 385 Map Unit Approval Flow Chart
Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet MO6 Instr 385 Map Unit Approval Process Spreadsheet
Microsoft Word Document MO6 Instr 385 Map Unit Approval Transmittal Letter
Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet MO6 Instr 386 NASIS Entry Guide Spreadsheet, Jan 2008
Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet MO6 Instr 386 NASIS Entry Guide Spreadsheet
Microsoft Word Document MO6 Instr 386 NASIS Entry Guide Transmittal Letter
Microsoft Word Document MO6 Instr 387 Guidelines for Using Family Taxons
 

Technical Notes

Microsoft Word Document MO6 Tech Note 1 – to the Use of Cation-Exchange Activity Classes
Microsoft Word Document MO6 Tech Note 2 – Identification and Description of Albic Horizons, Glossic Horizons, and Related Soil Features
Microsoft Word Document MO6 Tech Note 3 – NASIS Reports and Instructions for Generating Taxonomic Unit Descriptions
Microsoft Word Document MO6 Tech Note 3 – TUD Profile Check Template
Microsoft Word Document MO6 Tech Note 4 – Metric-English Conversion Guides for Inputting NASIS Data
Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet MO6 Tech Note 4 – Metric-English Conversion Tables for Inputting NASIS Data
Microsoft Word Document MO6 Tech Note 5 – Macro to Format Map Unit Descriptions
Microsoft Word Document MO6 Tech Note 6 – Report to Generate Map Unit Descriptions in NASIS
Microsoft Word Document MO6 Tech Note 7 – Guidelines for Populating Slope Aspect in NASIS
Microsoft Word Document MO6 Tech Note 8 – Suggested Order and Guidelines for Populating a New Map Unit in NASIS
Microsoft Word Document MO6 Tech Note 9 – Guidelines for Populating Surface Organic Layers in NASIS
Microsoft Word Document MO6 Tech Note 10 – Guidelines for Estimating and Interpreting Carbonate Clay
Microsoft Word Document MO6 Tech Note 11 – Guide for Populating Horizons with Stratified Textures
Microsoft Word Document MO6 Tech Note Series Tabulation Sheet

 

Other Guidance

Microsoft Word Document MO6 Current Macros April 2008
Microsoft Word Document MO6 Guide for Albedo
Microsoft Word Document MO6 Guide for Determining Available Water Capacity
Microsoft Word Document MO6 Guide for Determining Bulk Density
Microsoft Word Document MO6 Guide for Ksat Limits
Microsoft Word Document MO6 Guide for Kw Values
Microsoft Word Document MO6 Guide for Determining Land Capability Classes in Colorado
Microsoft Word Document MO6 Guide for Determining Texture Modifiers
Microsoft Word Document MO6 Guide for Drainage
Adobe Acrobat Document MO6 Guide for Estimating Linear Extensibility
Microsoft Word Document MO6 Guide for Populating Acres in the Legend Overlap Tables
Microsoft Word Document MO6 Guide for Populating ESD and Vegetation Information in NASIS
Microsoft Word Document MO6 Guide for Populating Landforms in NASIS
Microsoft Word Document MO6 Guide for Using and Populating REAP in NASIS
Microsoft Word Document MO6 Guide for Using the HOBO Multiyear Template
Microsoft Word Document MO6 Guide for Using the NASIS “Particle Size Estimator” Calculation
Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet MO6 Guide for Volume to Weight Conversions
Microsoft Word Document MO6 Guide for WEG & WEI
Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet MO6 Guide to Volume Adjustment for Porous Parafragments
Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet MO6 HOBO Multiyear Template
Microsoft Word Document MO6 Notes on Recent Developments to Some NASIS Data Elements, March 2007
Microsoft Word Document MO6 OCD Macro
Adobe Acrobat Document MO6 Plasticity Chart
Microsoft Word Document MO6 Policy on Using Unique NASIS Pedons
Microsoft Word Document MO6 Recommended Naming Format for Pedon IDs
Microsoft Word Document MO6 Soil Map Unit Note Form
Microsoft Word Document MO6 Soil Map Unit Traverse-Transect Detailed Form
Microsoft Word Document MO6 Soil Map Unit Traverse-Transect Form
Microsoft Word Document MO6 Texture Triangle with Families
MO6 Unified Coarse Grained
MO6 Unified Flow Chart
Microsoft Word Document MO6 Guide for Determining Types of Map Units
Adobe Acrobat Document MO6 Guidance for Point and Linear Map Units
Microsoft Word Document MO6 NSSC Guidance Letter for Populating Surface O Horizons
Microsoft Powerpoint Presentation MO6 NSSC Guide for Substrata Classification