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Edwards Plateau

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noun

  1. a highland area in SW Texas. 2000–5000 feet (600–1500 meters) high.


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Bexar County’s plan, called the Southern Edwards Plateau Habitat Conservation Plan, covers the northern half of the county and applies to nine specific endangered species, including the warbler, the black-capped vireo and seven invertebrates.

From Washington Times • Nov. 23, 2014

Both men had made it through the Hill Country, onto the spare, short grass savanna of the Edwards Plateau.

From New York Times • Jan. 12, 2013

When you drive down 83, it goes through so much contrast from the High Plains to the Edwards Plateau and the South Texas Brush Country.

From Southern Living • Mar. 24, 2010

Farther north, I drive through hills dotted with live oaks where the rugged landscape of the Edwards Plateau juts up abruptly from the prairie and U.S.

From Southern Living • Mar. 24, 2010

It extends southwest from Kansas through the Edwards Plateau of west-central Texas.

From Natural History of Cottonmouth Moccasin, Agkistrodon piscovorus (Reptilia) by Burkett, Ray D.

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