#greatplains — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #greatplains, aggregated by home.social.
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Port Silt Loam (Pedology 🟤)
Port Silt Loam is the state soil of Oklahoma. This type of soil is reddish in color due to the weathering of reddish sandstones, siltstones, and shales of the Permian period. It is a medium-textured alluvial soil deposited along flood plains. Port Silt Loam can be found in 33 of the 77 counties in Oklahoma and covers around one mil...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_Silt_Loam
#PortSiltLoam #Pedology #GreatPlains #TypesOfSoil #GeologyOfOklahoma #SymbolsOfOklahoma
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Great Plains Botanic Garden Open House June 12–13 https://www.allforgardening.com/1817600/great-plains-botanic-garden-open-house-june-12-13/ #agriculture #ClaudeBarr #environment #garden #GreatPlains #GreatPlainsBotanicGarden #GreatPlainsNativePlantSociety #hermosa #HikingTrails #NativePlants #NatureWalk #outdoors #ShortGrassPrairieEcosystem #SouthDakota #Tourism
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Hype for the Future 183R: Jefferson, Saline, and Seward Counties, Nebraska
Introduction Located on the eastern side of the State of Nebraska are the Counties of Jefferson, Saline, and Seward, associated with the north-south N-15 corridor which covers the three counties. East of Route 81, but west of Route 77, the community is firmly located in the Great Plains section of the greater Midwest region of the United States and is often described as part of the Lower Midwest. Jefferson County Located on the Kansas state line of the State of Nebraska is Jefferson […] -
Hype for the Future 183O: Route 81 Communities in Southern Nebraska
Introduction Within the State of Nebraska, Route 81 is a notable mainline highway largely located to the east of the 98th Meridian West in Eastern Nebraska’s more humid climatological areas, with the surrounding areas often more characteristic of the Midwest as with much of the eastern Great Plains region as a whole. Historically associated with the tallgrass and mixed-grass prairie zones, the modern context of the region is associated with residential and especially agricultural zones […] -
Hype for the Future 180B → City of Wichita, Kansas
Introduction The City of Wichita is a city in and the county seat of Sedgwick County, Kansas, as well as the largest city in the State of Kansas. Only one (1) county is larger by population--Johnson County, home to the suburban City of Olathe. The community is known historically as an agricultural crossroads conveniently located near the "dry line" of the Great Plains region of the United States, with areas to the east generally culturally similar to the Great Lakes, Ozarks, and Upland […] -
Hype for the Future 143B: The South Plains of Texas
Introduction Within the South Plains of the State of Texas, communities of notable interest between the Cities of Lubbock to the northwest and San Angelo to the southeast include Lamesa, along Routes 87 and 180 in Dawson County and home to the Dal Paso Museum, within the general vicinity of the Midland-Odessa area to the south. To the east along Route 180, the rural community of Gail is located within Borden County and is notable for the Dorward Drug historic site and the namesake inventor […]https://novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026/03/23/hype-for-the-future-143b-the-south-plains-of-texas/
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Hype for the Future 136B: Westernmost Counties in Kansas
Introduction Within the State of Kansas, the westernmost portion is situated within a total of seven (7) counties, four (4) of which represent the Mountain Time Zone within the area. The three (3) counties not in the Mountain Time Zone are associated with the remainder of the State and are situated within the boundaries of Central Time. Today, the counties are, from north to south, Cheyenne, Sherman, Wallace, Greeley, Hamilton, Stanton, and Morton. The county seats are, in the same order, […] -
Hype for the Future 135I: City of Liberal, Kansas
Overview The City of Liberal is situated within the southwestern portion of the boundaries of Seward County, Kansas, and serves as the county seat. The community is home to the Mid-America Air Museum in the west and Dorothy’s House and the Land of Oz in the east. The primary highways serving the community are United States Routes 54 and 83, both of particular significance within the area of the Great Plains approaching the High Plains.https://novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026/03/15/hype-for-the-future-135i-city-of-liberal-kansas/
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Hype for the Future 79I: The Smallest County Seats in America
Introduction While the vast majority of counties in the United States have obviously defined county seats, a number are actually out of the ordinary in a number of respects, including, but not limited to, the consolidated city-county and town-county arrangements and the independent cities. Each county mentioned below contains a relatively lower population count relative to other counties in the United States of America as a whole, and the communities are typically situated in the Great […] -
I've now been here on the 'Don for a little more than a year. The pace is slower and the bandwidth lesser, but so is the stress. This seems to be good people having honest conversations and sharing information, like grown-ups.
Anyway, to celebrate and thank you for joining me, here's the beautiful but much-maligned #EasternRedcedar: #native but #invasive in the #GreatPlains, rapidly converting us from #grassland to #shrubland.
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The #AmericanBuffalo
A New Documentary from #KenBurns Now Streaming"The American #Buffalo, a new two-part, four-hour series, takes viewers on a journey through more than 10,000 years of North American history and across some of the continent’s most iconic landscapes, tracing the animal’s evolution, its significance to the #IndigenousPeople and landscape of the #GreatPlains, its near extinction, and the efforts to bring the magnificent mammals back from the brink.
"For thousands of generations, buffalo (species #bison bison) have evolved alongside #IndigenousPeople who relied on them for food and shelter, and, in exchange for killing them, revered the animal. The stories of Native people anchor the series, including the #Kiowa, #Comanche, and #Cheyenne of the Southern Plains; the #Lakota, #Salish, #Kootenai, #Mandan-#Hidatsa, and #Blackfeet from the Northern Plains; and others."
https://www.pbs.org/kenburns/the-american-buffalo
#History #AmericanHistory #Genocide #Greed #Extinction #Capitalism #Colonization #NativeAmericans