Wind eroshion selectively removes the most fertile protion of the soil. When sediment balance from wind erosion os negative, soil quality is impovemented. Our objective was to determine the change in some measures of soil quality as influenced by wind erosion. We sampled s altation drifts and near surface bulk soil from several recently eroded fields, measured selected soil properrites, and compared results from the eroded saltation drifts with the non-eroded bulk soil. We found that sandy lams became loamy sands and loamy sands became sands with 10 to 30
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