Session 3 – Soils w/ Joshua Cardin
| Time | Topic | Instructor |
| 6:00 – 6:05 | Introductions & Welcome | Joshua Cardin, WSU Extension |
| 6:05 – 7:00 | Forest Soils | Joshua Cardin, WSU Extension |
| 7:00 – 7:10 | Break | Break |
| 7:10 – 8:25 | Mapping your Forest | Joshua Cardin, WSU Extension |
| 8:25 – 8:30 | Concluding Remarks | Joshua Cardin, WSU Extension |
Instructor Contact List:
Joshua Cardin, WSU Extension: 509-308-8224, joshua.cardin@wsu.edu
Andy Perleberg, WSU Extension: 509-630-4217, andyp@wsu.edu
Learn more & Drafting your plan:
Learn More and Work on Your Plan
Recommended Activities
- Use the Web Soil Survey to gather the information you need and draft the soils section of your plan (Resource Category 2), focusing both on the properties of your soils and also how you will protect them.
- Important: The Forest Soil Data for your Stewardship Plan publication will show you exactly how to get all of this. USE THIS PUBLICATION!
- Use the Soils Section Examples as a guide for how your soils section should look.
- Include all the items below in your plan.
- Soil series name(s) and brief description(s)
- Parent materials
- Depth and drainage
- Erosion hazard
- Compaction potential and rutting hazard
- Site index with base year
- Seedling mortality potential (and limiting factors)
- Soil protection recommendations
- Draft your management timeline (see Management Timeline Examples (PDF)). Be sure to include an entry for “review and update plan” for 10 years from now and 20 years from now.
- Review the Quick Guide to Nomenclature and make any necessary edits to your plan.
Connect Online
Check out these additional resources that are available to you online:
Browse the WSU Extension Forestry website and start familiarizing yourself with the resources there. You will be utilizing this website throughout the class. Look especially at the
WSU Extension Forestry Resources page to get an idea of the resources available to you as a forest owner.