The Plains Cottonwood.
Eastern Wyoming is considered to be a part of the Great Plains by the US Geological Survey.
The Plains Cottonwood (Populus deltoids occidentalis) was adopted as Wyoming state tree on February 1, 1947.
Wyoming.
Wyoming has 3 main geographic land regions. They are the Great Plains, the Rocky Mountains, and the Intermontane Basins. The Great Plains area is characterized by short-grass prairie land, cottonwoods, and shrubs. The Intermontane Basins are the flat areas between Wyoming's mountain ranges. They are characterized by short grasses and lower bushes.
Wyoming is from the Native American word mecheweamiing, which means at the big plains in English.
For purposes of this study, the great plains is defined as all Counties in Colorado, Iowa, Kansas Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska and New Mexico :)
Wyoming has 3 main land regions. They are the Great Plains, the Rocky Mountains, and the Intermontane Basins.
The web address of the Laramie Plains Museum is: http://www.laramiemuseum.org
The Sioux tribe settled at the great plains because when they first lived around the Dakota's, some went out and where Nomadic Sioux Indian's. they traveled out to parts of Wyoming, Oklahoma, and other states in the grate plains.
Landforms regions of Wyoming include the Great Plains in eastern Wyoming, the Rocky Mountains in western and southern Wyoming, and the Wyoming basin in central Wyoming. To be more specific, there are the Great Plains and the Black Hills, the Middle Rockies and the Southern Rockies, the Yellowstone Plateau, the Wyoming Basin, and dunes and badlands.
Wyoming comes from an Algonquin Indian word meaning "at the big plains" or " large prairie place."