There is a growing interest in doing several native plantings at specific buildings and undeveloped areas around campus. However, there is no real information on the soil at these locations. This project is looking to provide the data needed to successfully and efficiently manage these planting projects. Several students, including myself, will take soil core samples from each site and provide the samples to a commercial lab. The data will all be analyzed in comparable manner by the same lab. We will take 170 samples/subsamples with an 8" soil probe from these sites. The project team, Facilities and Services, and interested faculty and students will select these sites. The goal is to have an initial database of certain buildings and sites with usable soil sampling data: pH, fertility, and basic grain size. We hope to complete sampling in the fall but if the funding is received later or the round freezes and is unable to properly be sampled the project will be completed in the spring, around April when the ground thaws. The analysis of the samples can be complete within two months of sampling. However, depending on the samples, it may be a little more or a little less. The final report will be available at the latest by September 2016, but most likely it will be sooner.