Colorado's Great Plains
By A Mystery Man Writer
Description
Eastern Colorado, bordered by the foothills of the Rocky Mountains on the west, Kansas on the east, and the corners of Nebraska and Oklahoma, constitutes a portion of the Great Plains. It is the agricultural heartland of Colorado. This semiarid region is characterized by silty and sandy loam soils, twelve to eighteen inches of annual precipitation, and wind velocities averaging from twelve to fourteen miles per hour. Temperatures plunge below zero degrees Fahrenheit in the winter and rise above 100 degrees in the summer.
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Plains Plants and Habitats - Colorado Native Plant Society
Visit the Prairie
Resilience on the Colorado High Plains - by Krista Kafer
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448 Colorado Eastern Plains Royalty-Free Photos and Stock Images
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SPLT News Southern Plains Land Trust
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USGS: Geological Survey Bulletin 1493 (The Great Plains-Its Parts)
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Great Plains Sandhill Grasslands and Shrublands - Colorado Native
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Highlights of the High Plains
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Energy in the Great Plains — Earth@Home
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Reclamation releases 2023 drought plan
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A beautiful morning on the Colorado plains
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Encyclopedia of the Great Plains
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