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 Mapped Type Name   Brief Description   Area (HA)   Area (AC)   Percent   Samples   Samples
 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.
 West Gulf Coastal   Common overstory trees may include water oak, pecan, willow oak, sugar hackberry,
 Plain: Small Stream   post oak, sweetgum, green ash, blackgum, slippery elm, American elm, sycamore, and   13,410.9   33,139.0   0.074%   3   0
 Hardwood Woodland
 black willow.  Shrubs such as buttonbush and river birch may occur in well-watered
 areas.

 This type is mapped along first and second order streams within narrow buffers, and
 West Gulf Coastal   may be represented by a variety of herbaceous wetlands.  Common components include
 Plain: Small Stream   sedge and rush species, spikerush species, cattails, smartweeds, and moist-soil   137.0   338.5   0.001%   0   0
 Herbaceous Wetland
 grasses.

 This type is mapped along first and second order streams within narrow buffers where
 West Gulf Coastal   loblolly pine is among the most important species.  These stands are commonly the
 Plain: Small Stream   result of past timber management, but these areas could not be identified as former   1,774.5   4,384.9   0.010%   0   0
 Mixed Pine -   clear-cuts based on satellite remote sensing data from 2000 to 2012.  Common
 Hardwood Woodland   associated trees include sweetgum, water oak, ash species, and elm species.  Eastern
 redcedar may also be an important component.

 West Gulf Coastal   This type includes areas that are seasonally or temporarily flooded along narrow stream
 Plain: Small Stream   corridors.  Common overstory species include willow oak, water oak, water hickory,   2,291.8   5,663.2   0.013%   1   0
 Seasonally Flooded   American elm, slippery elm, sweetgum, and sugar hackberry.
 Hardwood Woodland

 This type circumscribes a variety of successional woodlands and shrublands in pastures
 West Gulf Coastal   or on forest edges, but does not include areas that were detected as having been logged
 Plains: Young Upland   between 2000 and 2012.  Common species may include winged elm, sumac species,   5,437.5   13,436.3   0.030%   1   5
 Hardwood Woodland   sugar hackberry, sweetgum, common persimmon, possumhaw, green ash, and eastern
 Regrowth   redcedar.  Elements of the West Gulf Coastal Palin: Pasture type may form an
 herbaceous matrix.


 This type often occurs in shallow soils or in cracks in igneous granite, rhyolite, or gabbro
 rocks.  Eastern redcedar is the prevailing dominant.  The aspect can be patchy with very
 Wichita Mountains:   shallow soils or rocks exposed at the surface.  Species such as post oak, blackjack oak,
 Eastern Redcedar               1,393.4         3,443.1       0.008%            0          0
 Shrubland   netleaf hackberry, gum bumelia, and little walnut may be present.  Little bluestem, tall
 dropseed, and short grasses such as buffalograss, blue grama, and hairy grama may be
 important in openings.

 Wichita Mountains:   This type represents eastern redcedar-dominated woodlands on slopes >20%.  Common
 Eastern Redcedar   species include netleaf hackberry, post oak, blackjack oak, Shumard oak, bur oak,   1,361.8   3,365.0   0.008%   0   3
 Slope Woodland   chinkapin oak, American elm, and gum bumelia.






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