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Title
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Field Notes, 1912, Part 2_051
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Alternative Title
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Field Notes, 1912, Part 2
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Date
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1912
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Creator
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Raymond J. Pool
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Description
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Raymond J. Pool Field Notes
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Identifier
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120712
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Transcription
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51 37 Distribution The Bad Lands are cut thru a grass sod composed of Bouteloua oligostachya , Bulbilis , Stipa comata , Stipa viridula , Agropyron repens , A. dasystachyum , and Sitanion elymoides . This has been cut and gullied in every direction leaving many isolated pastures of the short grass sod. Secondary species in the sod are Opuntia polyacantha , O. humifusa , Eriogonum multiceps , Allium reticulatum , Kuhnsitera candida , K. purpurea , Koeleria cristata , Psoralea floribunda , Calochortus gunnisonii , Linum rigidum . Carex filifolia random in many place the the principal grasses in abundance. Such vegetation as this covers the rolling ground everywhere outside the bad lands proper or in old established grassland within them. A close sod is usually present over such areas. Agropyron pseudorepens and Stipa comata are the most abundant grasses and there share with Bouteloua and Carex filformis in producing said sod. It is through such a sod as this underlain by Bank Clay that the Bad Lands have been cut. The Bad Lands are merely excessive gullies eroded from Bank clay. In each area one finds a completely developed drainage system of small scale. The sides of the ridges or gullies are
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Rights
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