Table 1. Areas of vegetative cover types in Pecos and Staked Plains, physiographic area 55. Forest coverages are taken from USFS FIA data, nonforest cover types are modified from USGS data. Water coverage is USGS data in the "nonforest" section of the USFS database.

Cover types

Area (ha)

Area (ac)

Percent of Total

Pinyon pine-juniper forest

60,179

148,703

0.47

Wheat, irrigated agriculture, corn

1,221,591

3,018,551

9.52

Bluestem grassland

1,146,789

2,833,716

8.94

Grama grassland

2,962,514

7,320,373

23.09

Wheatgrass prairie

30,239

74,720

0.23

Pasture, hay, mixed crops

34,218

84,552

0.27

Sagebrush prairie

5,720,120

14,134,417

44.58

Greasewood brushland

1,075,071

2,656,502

8.38

Creosote brushland

482,927

1,193,312

3.76

Water

1,890

4,670

0.01

Urban

96,386

238,170

0.75

 Totals

12,831,924

31,707,684

100