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Black land Prairies

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Description: This area is a transition between the plains of the West Texas Panhandle and the Pineywoods of East Texas. It’s sometimes called the crosstimbers prairie because of patches of woodland that run along small portions of it. Once, tall prairie grasses grew all across this region but settlers built farms and produce crops on it now. Conservation biologists are trying to restore some of the prairies that wildlife depend upon for survival. Farming and ranching are the two primary forms of agricultural production on this type of land.
Size: 25,000 square miles
Topography: The landscape is gently rolling to nearly level, and elevations range from 300 to 800 feet above sea level.

Soil Type: Typically, soils are uniformly dark-colored clays, often referred to as "black gumbo" they tend to be dry and hard in the summer and wet, thick and sticky in the winter.

Plants: Pecan,
Black hickory,
Black walnut,
Sycamore,
Burr oak,
Eastern cottonwood,
Post oak,
Persimmon, Wax myrtle,
Buckeye,
Mexican plum,
Sugarberry
Green, ash,
Red oak,
Flameleaf, sumac,
Green hawthorne,
Black cherry,
American, elderberry,
Bald cypress,
Buttonbush,
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Wildlife: Plains pocket gopher,
Beaver
Raccoon
Porcupine
Hispid, cotton rat
Ornate box turtle
Green-winged teal
Bobwhite quail
Red-shouldered hawk
Scissortail flycatcher
White-tailed deer
Brazilian free-tailed bat
Ringtail
Nine-banded armadillo
Texas horned lizard
Eastern hognose snake
Tarantula
Northern mockingbird.

Climate: Temperate prairies with an average rainfall of 28-40 inches per year. | Gulf Coast Prairie | | Pineywoods | | Post oak Savanna | | Home |