Eastern Colorado, bordered by the foothills of the Rocky Mountains on the west, Kansas on the east, and the corners of Nebraska and Oklahoma, constitutes a portion of the Great Plains. It is the agricultural heartland of Colorado. This semiarid region is characterized by silty and sandy loam soils, twelve to eighteen inches of annual precipitation, and wind velocities averaging from twelve to fourteen miles per hour. Temperatures plunge below zero degrees Fahrenheit in the winter and rise above 100 degrees in the summer.
Colorado Plains, Colorado State Forest Service
Thunderstorm over Great Plains in the Comanche National Grasslands
PRAIRIE THUNDER THE NATURE OF COLORADO'S GREAT PLAINS DAVE
Background information: Compared to the Rockies
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Time Machine Tuesday: Homesteading on the Great Plains – Colorado
Prairie Thunder: The Nature of Colorado's Great Plains – Boulder
The Living Colorado River
A River Routed Under the Mountains
