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  2. Texas Blackland Prairies - Wikipedia

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    The Texas Blackland Prairies ecoregion covers an area of 50,300 km 2 (19,400 sq mi), consisting of a main belt of 43,000 km 2 (17,000 sq mi) and two islands of tallgrass prairie grasslands southeast of the main Blackland Prairie belt; both the main belt and the islands extend northeast–southwest.

  3. Southeastern Plains (ecoregion) - Wikipedia

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    Soils are deep, clayey, somewhat-poorly to poorly drained, and acidic. The Blackland Prairie Margins are undulating, irregular plains, with slightly more relief than the Flatwoods, but also tend to have heavy clay soils that are sticky when wet, hard and cracked when dry, with generally poor drainage. [4]

  4. Piney Woods - Wikipedia

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    Prairie was common or dominant during and shortly after the Hypsithermal Period in the middle of the Holocene Epoch. By the late 18th century, the Blackland Prairie was a mosaic of woodland, savanna, and prairies. Today, the fertile soils of the Blackland Prairie are mostly used for pastureland, woodland, and hayland.

  5. Independence and community: How the Fort Worth Prairie ... - AOL

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    If we preserve this land and treat it well, it has much to offer us. | Opinion

  6. Osage Plains - Wikipedia

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    The Osage Plains, covering west-central Missouri, the southeastern third of Kansas, most of central Oklahoma, and extending into north-central Texas, is the southernmost of three tallgrass prairie physiographic areas. It grades into savanna and woodland to the east and south, and into shorter, mixed-grass prairie to the west. The Osage Plains ...

  7. Cross Timbers - Wikipedia

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    [17] Josiah Gregg described the Cross Timbers in 1845 as varying in width from five to thirty miles and attributed their denseness to the continual burning of the prairies. [18] The Cross Timbers vary in width from five to thirty miles, and entirely cut off the communication betwixt the interior prairies and those of the great plains.

  8. East Central Texas forests - Wikipedia

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    East Central Texas forests are distinguished from the adjacent Texas blackland prairies and Western Gulf coastal grasslands by their greater tree density. On the other hand, they are more open and have a greater concentration of hardwoods than the forests of the Piney Woods. [1]

  9. Clymer Meadow Preserve - Wikipedia

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    Clymer Meadow Preserve is a Nature Conservancy preserve located in the Blackland Prairie region of north Texas. As of 2021 the area covers about 1400 acres but with the occasional acquisition of new land the preserve slowly continues to expand.