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                                                                           No.      Ground
                                                                         Original     truth
 Mapped Type Name   Brief Description   Area (HA)   Area (AC)   Percent   Samples   Samples
 This type is mapped over bottomland soils and is characterized by open to relatively
 dense stands of mesquite in grazed grasslands. Common components in the modern
 High Plains:   landscape include field brome, cheatgrass, prairie broomweed, annual ragweed, silver   16,310.2   40,303.2   0.090%   2   12
 Mesquite Shrubland   bluestem, sideoats grama, blue grama, other grama species, buffalograss, plains
 pricklypear, and little bluestem.


 Playas are closed, internally drained basins, mainly associated with the High Plains.
 Vegetation varies over time with moisture.  Common dominant grasses may include
 High Plains: Playa   buffalograss, western wheatgrass, and vine mesquite.  Other grasses may include   1,260.4   3,114.5   0.007%   0   0
 Grassland
 tumblegrass, foxtail barley, and annual rabbitsfoot grass.  Important herbaceous species
 may include povertyweed, annual saltmarsh aster, and narrowleaf goosefoot.


 Playas are closed, internally drained basins, mainly associated with the High Plains.
 High Plains: Playa   Vegetation varies over time with moisture.  Common species may include pale   434.7   1,074.2   0.002%   0   1
 Marsh
 spikerush, hairy waterclover, flatsedges, knotweeds, wedgeleaf, and cattails.
 These areas were essentially unvegetated during all seasons at the time of data
 High Plains: Riparian   acquisition (circa 2012), and may represent stream scours, dry stream beds, and   1,225.4   3,027.9   0.007%   0   0
 Barrens
 exposed rock.
 This type is mapped along first and second order streams within narrow buffers, and is
 represented by vegetation influenced by a variety of water regimes and human impacts.
 High Plains: Riparian   This type may represent slightly moister or much wetter types than the surrounding   30,182.8   74,583.2   0.167%   5   5
 Deciduous Shrubland
 uplands.  Common species include willow species, winged elm, honeylocust, winged
 soapberry, sugar hackberry, ash species, and elm species.

 High Plains: Riparian   This type is mapped along first and second order streams within narrow buffers, and
 Eastern Redcedar   consists of areas where eastern redcedar is the prevailing dominant.  Other components   4,679.7   11,563.7   0.026%   2   1
 Woodland and   may include winged elm, winged soapberry, hackberry species, green ash, willow
 Shrubland   species, and elm species.

 This type is mapped along first and second order streams within narrow buffers, and is
 represented by vegetation influenced by a variety of water regimes and human impacts.
 High Plains: Riparian   A wide variety of canopy trees may be important, including plains cottonwood, bur oak,   86,183.4   212,963.5   0.476%   34   11
 Hardwood Woodland
 sycamore, winged soapberry, Siberian elm, sugar hackberry, willow species, boxelder,
 elm species, gum bumelia, ash species, and honeylocust.

 This type is mapped along first and second order streams within narrow buffers, and
 High Plains: Riparian   may circumscribe a variety of herbaceous wetlands.  Common components include   1,376.3   3,401.0   0.008%   0   0
 Herbaceous Wetland   sedge and rush species, spikerush species, cattails, smartweeds, and moist-soil
 grasses.






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