Southwestern Tablelands

The southwestern tablelands comprise an ecoregion running from east-central to south-east Colorado, east-central and a small portion of eastern New Mexico, some eastern portions of the Oklahoma Panhandle, far south-central Kansas, and portions of northwest Texas. This ecoregion has a "cold semiarid" climate (Köppen BSk). Some years, a National Weather Service dust storm warning is issued in parts of Texas due to a dust storm originating from the lower part of the Southwestern Tablelands ecological region or from the southern end of the Western High Plains ecological region.Dust storm#Dust storm visibility of 1.2F4 mile or less.2C or meters or less

Included cities

The Canadian River, north of Amarillo, Texas, is the central corridor of the Southwestern Tablelands. Snyder, Texas La Junta, Colorado Colorado Springs, Colorado The western edge is near Pueblo, Colorado, and Albuquerque, New Mexico The northern edge is south of Dodge City, Kansas The eastern edge is west of Woodward, Oklahoma

Environment Flora In the northwestern region, the prevalent vegetation consists of grasses of the shortgrass prairie ecosystem and sagebrush.

Fauna

See also List of ecoregions in the United States (EPA) List of ecoregions in the United States (WWF)

References

External links Native Prairies Association of Texas (NPAT) NPAT protected prairies The Nature Conservancy (TNC) Connemara Conservancy Soil Physics at Oklahoma State Weeds of the Blackland Prairie Texas counties map showing the ecoregion