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  2. Great Plains ecoregion - Wikipedia

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    The ecology of the Great Plains is diverse, largely owing to their great size. Differences in rainfall, elevation, and latitude create a variety of habitats including short grass, mixed grass, and tall-grass prairies, and riparian ecosystems. [1] The Great Plains extend from Mexico in the south through the central United States to central ...

  3. Shortgrass prairie - Wikipedia

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    In addition, the top predators used to be the Great Plains wolf and the grizzly bear, but the coyote has replaced those animals. Prairie dogs were once the most abundant animals in the shortgrass prairie and historically lived in colonies across a range that historically spanned 11 states but now live in 1 percent of their former range.

  4. Central Great Plains (ecoregion) - Wikipedia

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    The Central Great Plains are a prairie ecoregion of the central United States, part of North American Great Plains. The region runs from west-central Texas through west-central Oklahoma, central Kansas, and south-central Nebraska. It is designated as the Central and Southern Mixed Grasslands ecoregion by the World Wide Fund for Nature.

  5. Cross Timbers - Wikipedia

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    More specifically, the Cross Timbers fall into Level II Ecoregion 9.4, the smaller South Central Semi-Arid Plains. [7] In southern Oklahoma, the Cross Timbers are located on the very edge of the Great Plains, as they border directly parts of Level I Ecoregion 8.0, the Eastern Temperate Forests; elsewhere, the Cross Timbers are separated ...

  6. Boiling Springs State Park - Wikipedia

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    It is located northeast of Woodward in a portion of Oklahoma known for a semi-arid climate and sparse vegetation. The park itself includes a forest of hackberry, walnut, soapberry (also called chinaberry), oak, and elm, attracting whitetail deer, wild turkey, raccoon, coyote, bobcat, beaver, badger, skunk, and opossum. [4]

  7. Western short grasslands - Wikipedia

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    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.

  8. Southwestern Tablelands - Wikipedia

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    The southwestern tablelands comprise an ecoregion running from east-central to south-east Colorado, east-central and a small portion of eastern New Mexico, some eastern portions of the Oklahoma Panhandle, far south-central Kansas, and portions of northwest Texas. This ecoregion has a "cold semiarid" climate (Köppen BSk).

  9. Lawton, Oklahoma - Wikipedia

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    Located in western Oklahoma, approximately 87 mi (140 km) southwest of Oklahoma City, [8] [9] it is the principal city of the Lawton, Oklahoma, metropolitan statistical area. According to the 2020 census , Lawton's population was 90,381, making it the sixth-largest city in the state, and the largest in Western Oklahoma .