by CONPS ME | May 11, 2023
Near Sand Creek Massacre Natl. Historic Site, Kiowa Co. Great Plains Sandhill Grasslands and Shrublands It is all too easy to take a cursory look at the rolling plains in the eastern one-third of Colorado and think that it is all the same. In the Plains Plants section...
by CONPS ME | Mar 8, 2021
Colorado Tallgrass Prairie Natural Area Western Great Plains Tallgrass Prairie Summary The tallgrass prairie is characterized by three species of waist-high grasses which interestingly all have bluish stems during the summer growing season which turn to red-bronze in...
by CONPS ME | Mar 8, 2021
Pawnee Buttes National Grassland Western Great Plains Shortgrass Prairie Shortgrass Prairie The shortgrass prairie occurs on the eastern plains of Colorado from the foothills to the eastern border in Nebraska and Kansas and the Oklahoma panhandle. The vast majority of...
