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Smoky Hills

Ecoregion on Great Plains in KS, NE

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The Smoky Hills ecoregion is an undulating to hilly dissected loess plain with sandstone hills underlain by the Dakota Formation. The region is transitional, with a variable climate and potential natural vegetation ranging from tallgrass prairie in the east to mixedgrass prairie in the west. Soils are silty and loamy, and formed in loess, which is thinner than in neighboring 27b, and with areas of sandy soils formed in sandstone. Land use consists of cropland and grassland with dryland winter wheat as the principal crop. Average annual precipitation ranges from 24 to 28 inches, greater than in 27b to the west.

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