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The High Plains ecology region is designated by 25 on this map. Childress County, Texas, June 1938.. The High Plains are a subregion of the Great Plains, mainly in the Western United States, but also partly in the Midwest states of Nebraska, Kansas, and South Dakota, generally encompassing the western part of the Great Plains before the region reaches the Rocky Mountains.
It can be traced to Stephen H. Long's 1820 scientific expedition which put the Great American Desert on the map. [3] [4] Today the area is usually referred to as the High Plains, and the original term is sometimes used to describe the arid region of North America, which includes parts of northwestern Mexico and the American southwest.
The Worst Hard Time : the Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl. (Houghton Mifflin, 2006). Forsberg, Michael, Great Plains: America's Lingering Wild (U of Chicago Press, 2009), ISBN 978-0-226-25725-9; Gilfillan, Merrill. Chokecherry Places, Essays from the High Plains, (Boulder, Colorado, Johnson Press) ISBN 1-55566-227-7.
The Llano Estacado lies at the southern end of the Western High Plains ecoregion of the Great Plains of North America; it is part of what was once called the Great American Desert. The Canadian River forms the Llano's northern boundary, separating it from the rest of the High Plains.
This ecoregion largely corresponds with the geographical region known as the High Plains.It is located in southeastern Wyoming, western Nebraska (the Nebraska Panhandle), eastern Colorado, western Kansas, western Oklahoma (the Oklahoma Panhandle), eastern New Mexico, the Texas Panhandle and parts of west-central Texas and a very small portion of southwestern South Dakota.
Texas Parks and Wildlife further acknowledges more than 100 rare, endangered or threatened species on the High Plains, many of which do not formally receive federal protections, contradicting ...
The High Plains receive very little rainfall, and sit at high elevations, usually about 3,000 to 6,000 feet (910 to 1,830 m). Many people view the High Plains as the point where one begins to enter the greater Mountain West region. [7] The Mountain West has some of the highest mountain peaks in America.
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