2007-02-09 02:12:45 · 11 answers · asked by Simon Z 1 in Environment
your all wrong...Paul Bunyan...remember?
2007-02-09 02:34:13 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are trees on the great plains!
You really do not get out much do you?
2007-02-09 10:22:12 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are trees in the great plains... not many but some.
2007-02-09 10:18:50 · answer #3 · answered by Right_Tonight 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's a mixture of animal habitat and ancient Indian ways. If you read Jean Auel, in The Plains of Passage, she gives a very good description of the Steppes, and how they came to be. The Great Plains have much in common with them.
2007-02-09 11:16:16 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No that is why they are called the great plains ,if there were a lot of trees ,it would be called forrests
2007-02-09 10:16:42 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are two reasons for this prior to western expansion of the US, that being said the reasons are, wind and semi-aridness.
2007-02-09 10:16:40 · answer #6 · answered by Kelly L 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Fires due to lightning and the land management practices of the native americans, who wanted grassland for buffalo to eat, and wood for fires and shelter.
2007-02-09 10:20:34 · answer #7 · answered by CLICKHEREx 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Only plants that are adapted to harsh, arid environments can thrive there.
2007-02-09 10:16:55 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Grass does fine.
2007-02-09 11:15:39 · answer #9 · answered by JOHNNIE B 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If there were it then they would be called the Great Forest!!!!!
2007-02-09 10:16:33 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
the biggest reason is low rainfall amounts.
2007-02-09 10:21:11 · answer #11 · answered by The Cheminator 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋