Potential Prime Soils

Resource Lands Assessment for the Chesapeake Bay Watershed

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Chesapeake Bay Program
A Watershed Partnership

Potential Prime Soils Actively
Farmed per Square Mile
Acres

| 357 - 631

| 222 - 356
121 -221
46-120
1 -45

No Prime Soils

Assessing the extent of farming on
prime soils in the Bay watershed is a
useful measure for determining the lands
of highest importance for agricultural
productivity and sustainability. This map
shows the acres of potential prime soils
that are actively farmed per square mile grid cell

Data Sources: Chesapeake Bay Program

For more information, visit www.chesapeakebay.net
Disciaimer: www.chesapeakebay.netAermsofuse.htm

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Created by JW, 1/24/08

UTM Zone 18N, NAD 83

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