AMPP Testing
Fieldwork Photos

In the fall of 2003, initial sampling was completed with the cooperation of several landowners and irrigators in the Tongue River drainage area of southeastern Montana.

Here you will find a collection of photos taken during that sampling process.

	Typical AMPP field set-up. In the foreground is the tension infiltrometer. Immediately behind the infiltrometer is the sample preparation station. Behind the prep station is the soil pit with Kevin Harvey inside the pit, with Bill Schaffer and Fred O'Doan, backhoe operator, standing outside of the pit
	Three types of sampling were done at each field for the Tier II level effort. A backhoe pit was excavated, as shown on left, and a soil test pit was described. The infiltration rate of the soil was measured, shown center. And composite soil samples to a depth of 96 inches were collected using a Gidding’s Probe, shown right.
	Shown here is the measuring and dividing the soil core for the composite samples.
	Condition of the field after the backhoe completes filling in the test pit.
	Field conditions above test pit DA.
	Field conditions above test pit DB.
	Placement of tension infiltrometer in an uncut alfalfa field.