places designated as grassy lawns. grassy lawns, divide 2.5 cms, 5-10 cm we were the third 10-30 cms. The increment (REECo 41) from rather heavy. first as cut to instructions under into the it For locations which could not be called second and and sample, vegetation at top the increments, go the with increment at collect the soil particular this auger site jis This makes problems which we will address a little later. (REECo 42). If the breakoff point for the increment is deeper than it should be, we- trimmed, using the base of the core cutter as a guide. excess materiat, we dropped into the next lower increment. The Cleaning the 10 cutters sometimesgets a little strenuous (REECo 43). 11 knife is going in=after the core. 12 the outside with a rubber mallet. 13 license in some of ourslides. 14 up in the air and thump it.It was down in the bucket when it got pounded 15 on. 16 Here an eight-inch Another way (REECo 44) was to pound on There is a degree of photographic Normally we did not hold the cookie cutter a This (REECo 45) is the auger. we showed earlier. It is a neat fit 17 inside the hole made by the last andlongest core cutter. 18 at 12 inches or 30 cms when the top of the barrel was even with the surface 19 we had designated as our zero starting point. Sometimes you could pour the 20 soil out; sometimes you had to pound it out. We knew we were 21 We come now to some of those special places which were sort of skipped 22 over by Frosty. John Koranda showed a horrible example that looked like it 23 came off the salt beds at Death Valley. 24 those, but we had. solutions for all of the kinds-of- sampling sites that we 25 came to. 26 occasionally, (REECo 47) hammer and chisel. 27 (Laughter) 28 Fortunatelywe didn't have many of These (REECo 46) are some of the tools, knives, The chisel has a little extra flourish. 115 spatulas, and, — You can use it in a very grassy