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Recently a visitor to the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge asked what the term “Cross Timbers” meant. This term describes a strip of land that runs from southwestern Kansas across central Oklahoma to Central Texas. Made up of a mix of prairies, savanna and woodland, it forms part of the boundary between the more heavily forested east and the almost treeless Great Plains. The thick blackjack oak and post- oak growth formed an almost impenetrable barrier for early explorers and settlers. Washington Irving, in 1835, described it as “...struggling through forests of cast iron.” The Wichita Mountains are on the Western Boundary of the Cross Timbers.
Photo Credit: A.Zimmerman