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Prairie/Pasture each accounted for more than 10% of the area of the state, and together
made up 41.6% of the state (Table 5). The most common grassland types, including
those in the Crosstimbers, Central Mixedgrass, High Plains Shortgrass, and Osage
Tallgrass regions together account for just over a third of the area of the state. The
most common forest type was Crosstimbers: Post Oak – Blackjack Oak Forest and
Woodland, which covered 1,035,809 hectares, or 5.7% of the state. This forested
vegetation type was less than half the area of grasslands in the Crosstimbers region.
The Ozark-Ouachita: Dry Oak Woodland type covered the most area in the more
forested eastern and southeastern part of the state. Ruderal Deciduous Woodland was
the most common woody-dominated disturbance/cultural type mapped, followed by Pine
Plantation, Ruderal Deciduous Shrubland and Young Woodland, and Ruderal Eastern
Redcedar Woodland and Shrubland, which covered 62,994 hectares, or 0.35% of the
state. Planted Non-native and/or Native Grasses, which represents fairly recently
retired cropland, was conservatively mapped only in the panhandle and adjacent
western Oklahoma counties but still accounted for 507,456 hectares, or 2.8% of the
state, and was the eighth most abundant mapped type.

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