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Official Series Description -LESTER Series Page 3 of 3 <br />DRAINAGE AND PERMEABILITY: Well drained. Permeability is moderate. Runoff is medium to <br />high. <br />USE AND VEGETATION: Mostly cropped to com and soybeans. Some is in pasture and forest. <br />Native vegetation is savanna. <br />DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT: South-central and east-central Minnesota and northeastern Iowa. <br />Extensive. <br />MLRA OFFICE RESPONSIBLE: St. Paul, Minnesota <br />SERIES ESTABLISHED: Dakota County, Minnesota, 1945. <br />REMARKS: Diagnostic horizons and featured recognized in this pedon are: mollic subgroup -the zone <br />from the surface to 7 inches (Ap horizon); argillic horizon -the zone from 7 to 38 inches (Bt horizons). <br />Type location moved from Waseca County, Mn. to Wright County, Mn., 11/96 to better exemplify the <br />series concept within the MLRA. Slopes of 1 to 5 percent that were previously correlated as Lester may <br />be included with the Angus series in the future. <br />National Cooperative Soil Survey <br />U.S.A. <br />http://ortho.ftw.nrcs.usda.gov/cgi-bin/osd/osdname.cgi?-P 8/16/2006