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The sandsage association includes grasses such as big sandreed, little bluestem, sand dropseed, and sand bluestem.
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Lesser prairie-chickens use both shin oak and sandsage prairie habitats, but are presently imperiled due to agricultural conversion to modern farming practices as well as intensive grazing.
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While sandsage and prairie grasses may create a continuous plant cover in portions of Ecoregion 25j, the vegetative cover is vulnerable to overgrazing and subsequent wind blowouts which may begin a cycle of dune formation.
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Steep slopes, runoff, and salinity in badland areas limit vegetation to a sparse growth of yucca, cacti, ephedra, or sandsage.
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In northern Texas, the vegetative cover of the Rolling Sand Plains is transitional between the Shinnery Sands (25j) to the south and the sandsage prairies of Oklahoma and Kansas.
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Lesser prairie-chickens use shin oak and sandsage prairie habitats, but are presently imperiled due to agricultural practices as well as intensive grazing.
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In northern Texas and New Mexico, the vegetative cover of the Rolling Sand Plains is transitional between the Shinnery Sands (25j) to the south and the sandsage prairies of Oklahoma, Colorado, and Kansas.
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The sandsage association includes grasses such as big sandreed, little bluestem, sand dropseed, and sand bluestem.
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Küchler classified this ecoregion as grama-buffalo grass prairie, bluestem-grama prairie, sandsage-bluestem prairie, and wheatgrass-bluestem-needlegrass prairie.
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Natural vegetation is primarily sandsage prairie with sand reed grass, blue grama, sand dropseed, needlegrass, and sand sagebrush, and is similar to the Rolling Sand Plains (25b) ecoregion found in the neighboring High Plains (25).
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