Inventories

Network Soils Inventory

The I&M Program is completing soil surveys through agreements with other federal agencies, such as the Natural Resources Conservation Service, and with private contractors. I&M Program staff assist parks with identifying needs for soil mapping, so that park objectives are met through appropriate data collection and scale of mapping. Special strategies are being developed in cooperation with the Natural Resources Conservation Service and private contractors to handle the large-area mapping for parks in Alaska, Arizona, California, Florida, Montana, New Mexico, North Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Utah.

Products of the I&M Soils Inventory and Mapping Program are a local soils scoping session, a digital soils layer, a corresponding set of soil attributes and interpretations in a National Soil Survey Information System (NASIS) format, a soil survey manuscript in both hardcopy and digital format, and a metadata file.

Park	Scoping Meeting	Manuscript	Maps	SSURGO Database	Soils Attributes	Metadata File
Crater Lake	Completed	Completed	Completed	Completed	Completed	Completed
Lassen Volcanic	Completed	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA
Lava Beds	Completed	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA
Oregon Caves	Completed	NA	NA	Completed	NA	Completed
Redwood	Completed	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA
Whiskeytown	Completed	NA	NA	Completed	NA	Completed