Table 1. Areas of vegetative cover types in Rolling Red Plains, physiographic area 54. Forest coverages are taken from USFS FIA data, nonforest cover types are modified from USGS data. Water coverage is combined from both databases by adding USGS water data in the "nonforest" section of the USFS database.

Cover types

Area (ha)

Area (ac)

Percent of Total

Oak-hickory forest

12,800

31,629

0.09

Pinyon pine-juniper forest

15,100

37,312

0.11

Wheat, corn, soybeans

2,734,400

6,756,702

19.90

Bluestem grassland

2,240,100

5,535,287

16.30

Grama grassland

4,911,600

12,136,564

35.74

Wheatgrass prairie

272,600

673,595

1.98

Pasture, hay, mixed crops

12,700

31,382

0.09

Open oak, bluestem woodland

842,200

2,081,076

6.13

Sagebrush prairie

2,170,100

5,362,317

15.79

Greasewood brushland

395,700

977,775

2.88

Creosote brushland

21,500

53,126

0.16

Water

53,800

132,940

0.39

Urban

61,000

150,731

0.44

 Totals

13,743,600

33,960,435

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