This area is in Utah (82 percent), Nevada (16 percent), and Idaho (2
percent). It makes up about 36,775
square miles (95,300 square kilometers). Salt Lake City, Logan, Ogden, Provo,
Richfield, and Cedar City,
Utah, and Malad and Preston, Idaho, occur in this MLRA. Interstate 80 crosses
the northern end of the
MLRA, and Interstate 15 parallels the eastern border. Interstate 84 crosses the
northern tip, and Interstate
70 ends at Interstate 15 in the south end of the MLRA. Several national forests
occur in this MLRA,
including the Caribou, Dixie, Wasatch, Humboldt-Toiyabe, and Fish Lake National
Forests. The Deseret
Test Center and the Desert Range Experiment Station, including the Biosphere
Reserve, occur in this area.
The Hill and Wendover
Air Force Ranges, the Tooele Military Depot, and the Dugway Proving Grounds also
occur in this area.
The Skull Valley Indian Reservation is in the area. The Bonneville Salt Flats
Speedway, used by
experimental cars for setting land speed records, also is in the area. The
Golden Spike National Historic
Site (joining point for the first transcontinental railroad) is in this MLRA.
Status |
Site Name |
Site Number |
Draft |
Alkali Bottom (Alkali Sacaton) |
028AY001UT |
Draft |
Alkali Flat (Greasewood) |
028AY004UT |
Draft |
Loamy Bottom (Great Basin Wildrye) |
028AY006UT |
Draft |
Semiwet Alkali Flat |
028AY010UT |
Draft |
Semiwet Fresh Meadow |
028AY012UT |
Draft |
Semiwet Fresh Streambank |
028AY014UT |
Draft |
Wet Fresh Meadow |
028AY020UT |
Draft |
Wet Fresh Streambank |
028AY022UT |
Draft |
Wet Saline Meadow |
028AY024UT |
Not Written |
Lakeshore Marsh |
028AY025UT |
Draft |
Desert Alkali Bench (Bud Sagebrush) |
028AY104UT |
Draft |
Desert Alkali Clay Loam (Alkali Sacaton) |
028AY106UT |
Draft |
Desert Alkali Sand (Four-Wing Saltbush) |
028AY110UT |
Draft |
Desert Alkali Sandy Loam (Shadscale) |
028AY112UT |
Draft |
Desert Bouldery Fan (Nevada Joint Fir) |
028AY116UT |
Draft |
Desert Flat (Shadscale) |
028AY119UT |
Draft |
Desert Gravelly Loam (Shadscale) |
028AY120UT |
Draft |
Desert Gravelly Sandy Loam (Indian Ricegrass) |
028AY122UT |
Draft |
Desert Loam (Shadscale) |
028AY124UT |
Draft |
Desert Clay Loam (Shadscale) |
028AY126UT |
Draft |
Desert Oolitic Dunes (Black Greasewood) |
028AY128UT |
Draft |
Desert Salt Flat (Sickle Saltbush) |
028AY130UT |
Not Written |
Desert Salty Silt (Pickleweed) |
028AY131UT |
Draft |
Desert Salty Silt (Iodinebush) |
028AY132UT |
Draft |
Desert Sand (Four-Wing Saltbush) |
028AY134UT |
Draft |
Desert Sandy Loam (Four-Wing Saltbush) |
028AY136UT |
Draft |
Desert Sandy Loam (Shadscale) |
028AY137UT |
Draft |
Desert Shallow Loam (Shadscale) |
028AY138UT |
Draft |
Desert Silt Loam (Winterfat) |
028AY139UT |
Draft |
Desert Silt Flat (Winterfat) |
028AY140UT |
Draft |
Semidesert Alkali Loam (Black Greasewood) |
028AY202UT |
Draft |
Semidesert Alkali Sandy Loam (Alkali Sacaton) |
028AY205UT |
Draft |
Semidesert Bouldery Loam (Wyoming Big Sagebrush) |
028AY208UT |
Draft |
Semidesert Gravelly Loam (Wyoming Big Sagebrush) South |
028AY214UT |
Draft |
Semidesert Gravelly Loam (Wyoming Big Sagebrush) North |
028AY215UT |
Draft |
Semidesert Silt Flat (Winterfat) |
028AY218UT |
Draft |
Semidesert Loam (Wyoming Big Sagebrush) |
028AY220UT |
Draft |
Semidesert Loam (Basin Big Sagebrush) |
028AY221UT |
Draft |
Semidesert Sand (Four-Wing Saltbush) |
028AY222UT |
Draft |
Semidesert Sand (Utah Juniper) |
028AY223UT |
Draft |
Semidesert Sandy Loam (Winterfat) |
028AY224UT |
Draft |
Semidesert Sandy Loam (Wyoming Big Sagebrush) |
028AY226UT |
Not Written |
Semidesert Gravelly Sandy Loam (Black Sagebrush) |
028AY227UT |
Draft |
Semidesert Limy Loam |
028AY228UT |
Draft |
Semidesert Shallow Hardpan (10-14"ppt) |
028AY230UT |
Draft |
Semidesert Shallow Hardpan ( 8-10"ppt) |
028AY231UT |
Draft |
Semidesert Shallow Hardpan (Utah Juniper) |
028AY232UT |
Draft |
Semidesert Shallow Loam (Utah Juniper-Salina Wildrye) |
028AY234UT |
Draft |
Semidesert Shallow Loam (Black sagebrush) |
028AY236UT |
Draft |
Semidesert Shallow Loam (Salina Wildrye) |
028AY237UT |
Draft |
Semidesert Shallow Loam (Utah Juniper-Bluebunch Wheatgrass) |
028AY238UT |
Not Written |
Semidesert Shallow Loam (Wyoming Big Sagebrush) |
028AY243UT |
Draft |
Semidesert Stony Sand (Utah Juniper) |
028AY250UT |
Not Written |
Semidesert Stony Loam (Black Sagebrush) |
028AY252UT |
Draft |
Semidesert Stony Loam (Utah Juniper) |
028AY256UT |
Draft |
Semidesert Very Shallow Loam (Littleleaf Mountainmahogany) |
028AY258UT |
Draft |
Semidesert Very Steep Shallow Loam (Black Sagebrush) |
028AY260UT |
Not Written |
Semidesert Very Steep Shallow Loam (Utah Juniper) |
028AY262UT |
Not Written |
Upland Limy Loam |
028AY301UT |
Draft |
Upland Limy Loam (Singleleaf Pinyon-Utah Juniper) |
028AY302UT |
Draft |
Upland Gravelly Loam (Mountain Big Sagebrush) |
028AY306UT |
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Upland Gravelly Loam (Wyoming Big Sagebrush) |
028AY307UT |
Not Written |
Upland Gravelly Loam (Singleleaf Pinyon-Utah Juniper) |
028AY308UT |
Not Written |
Upland Loam (Wyoming Big Sagebrush) |
028AY309UT |
Not Written |
Upland Loam (Mountain Big Sagebrush) |
028AY310UT |
Not Written |
Upland Sandy Loam (Indian Ricegrass) |
028AY311UT |
Not Written |
Upland Sand (Pinyon-Utah Juniper) |
028AY312UT |
Not Written |
Upland Shallow Loam (Black Sagebrush) |
028AY318UT |
Not Written |
Upland Shallow Hardpan (Pinyon-Utah Juniper) |
028AY320UT |
Draft |
Upland Shallow Hardpan (Mountain Big Sagebrush) |
028AY322UT |
Draft |
Upland Shallow Loam (Utah Juniper-Singleleaf Pinyon) |
028AY324UT |
Not Written |
Upland Shallow Loam (Black Sagebrush) |
028AY325UT |
Not Written |
Upland Sand (Indian Ricegrass) |
028AY330UT |
Not Written |
Upland Oolitic Sand (Wyoming Big Sagebrush) |
028AY331UT |
Not Written |
Upland Alkali Loam (Wyoming Big Sagebrush) |
028AY332UT |
Not Written |
Upland Stony Loam (Wyoming Big Sagebrush) Ogden? |
028AY334UT |
Draft |
Upland Claypan (Low Sagebrush) |
028AY336UT |
Draft |
Upland Stony Loam (Singleleaf Pinyon-Utah Juniper) |
028AY338UT |
Not Written |
Upland Very Shallow Loam (Littleleaf Mountainmahogany) |
028AY342UT |
Draft |
Mountain Loam (Aspen) (Tremonton has ??) |
|
Not Written |
Mountain Loam (Canyon Maple) |
028AY418UT |
Not Written |
Mountain Windswept Ridge |
028AY430UT |
Not Written |
Mountain Loam (Mountain Big Sagebrush) |
028AY431UT |
Not Written |
Mountain Stony Loam (Antelope Bitterbrush) |
028AY456UT |
Not Written |
Mountain Shallow Loam (Curlleaf Mountainmahogany) |
028AY460UT |
Not Written |
High Mountain Loam (Bigtooth Maple) |
028AY518UT |