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OK 2. Great Salt Plains (Salt Plains National Wildlife Refuge). Acreage: 32,000. 



Location: Alfalfa County; Woodward 1 :250,000 Quadrangle; 1 mile E of 

 Cherokee. 



Description: Large unvegetated salt pan. Surrounding halophytic vegetation in- 

 cludes Sesuvium verrucosum and Suaeda depressa. This is the largest inland 

 saline area of the plains region. 



References: Ortenberger, A. I., and R. D. Bird. 1931. The ecology of western 

 Oklahoma Salt Plains. Oklahoma Biol. Surv. Bull. 3:49-64. Baalman, R. J. 1965. 

 Vegetation of the Salt Plains Wildlife Refuge, Jet, Oklahoma. Ph.D. Thesis, 

 Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, Okla. Ungar, I. A. 1968. Species-soil relation- 

 ships on the Great Salt Plains of northern Oklahoma. Am. Midi. Nat. 80:392- 

 406. 



Ownership: BSFW. 



Data source: Irwin A. Ungar, Botany Department, Ohio University, Athens, 

 Ohio 45701. 



Other knowledgeable persons: R. J. Baalman, Department of Biological 

 Sciences, California State College, Hayward, Calif. 94546. 



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