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Baton Rouge Terrace
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The Baton Rouge Terrace ecoregion occurs on the Pleistocene Prairie Terraces and is lower in elevation and has flatter topography than Ecoregion 74c to the north. Similar to other parts of Ecoregion 74, loess is thicker to the west. The soils are mostly Alfisols with brown or grayish-brown, silt loam surfaces that developed in the loess parent materials. High sodium soils are common. The natural vegetation was influenced by the unusual soil conditions and by different forest types occurring in adjacent regions, with some upland hardwoods to the northwest, hardwood flatwoods and spruce pine-hardwood mixed forests across extensive broad flats, and many areas of bottomland hardwoods. Large areas of the mixed pine-hardwood forest have now been cleared for pasture, cropland, and urban uses. Urban uses cover about fifty percent of the region.
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