Soil Science

The Nature Conservancy of Washington’s Farming for Wildlife project, in cooperation with WSU, has been testing a novel concept of creating habitat for shorebirds on potato fields by employing field fl ...

This manual is a step-by-step guide through the process of getting soil information from the USDA Natural Resource Conservation Service’s (NRCS) Web Soil Survey (WSS). This is a free website that serves as a nationwide clearinghouse of soil information.

This manual is a step-by-step guide through the process of getting soil information from the USDA Natural Resource Conservation Service’s (NRCS) Web Soil Survey (WSS). This is a free website that serv ...

This publication discusses how decreasing soil pH contributes to increased instances of herbicide persistence and categorizes commonly used herbicides as either a weak acid, weak base, cationic, noni ...

Soils in the Columbia Basin are highly productive for agriculture but can have problems related to their physical properties that can be influenced by different soil improvement practices. This public ...

This publication is designed for non-industrial private forest landowners in Washington State. It includes background on the fundamentals of good forest soil stewardship to maintain productive forest soil.